Weeknote #79 (20260329-20260404)

meta

work continues to be pretty all-consuming …as does the greater world, really. if shit could just stop for, like, a week or two, that would be super.

did

• updated my resume, as my “promotion” became Workday-official
• continued to work on filling in the garden hole

read

• “The Slow Death of the Power User” via Flutterby

  There’s a certain kind of person who’s becoming extinct. You’ve probably met one. Maybe you are one. Someone who actually understood the tools they used. Someone who could sit down at an unfamiliar system, poke at it for twenty minutes, and have a working mental model of what it was doing and why. Someone who read error messages instead of dismissing them. Someone who, when something broke, treated it as a puzzle rather than a betrayal.

  …

  This is what the culture has normalized: outcomes without understanding, solutions without models. And the response when you point this out is “okay but who has time for that,” as if understanding were a productivity cost rather than the entire point.

• “Lay It Down” — if you’ve ever wondered what happened to John K. Samson of “Propaghandi” and “Weakerthans” fame, look no futher

• Current unread bookmark count: 204

listened

• “Enema of the Garden State”

cooked

• Monday: tuna fish sammiches
• Tuesday: roast beast sammiches
• Wednesday: roast chicken, caprese salad