Laura brought a guava home from the office. The thing literally smelled up our entire house. Sometimes it smelled amazing and other times it sort of smelled like… body odor? I don’t think I’ve ever eaten one before and after trying it tonight, I’m not sure I’ll eat it again any time soon.
This woman’s account of homeschool conferences was not an easy read. I have more to say on this, but it’s probably better suited for a longer post, whenever I get around to that. (via Kottke)
There are a few blogs (remember those?) that I read every day. Seth Godin’s blog is one of them. Every single post is often just enough. They often feel topical even though they almost never mention the thing he has in mind while writing it. Today’s post was exceptional. Here’s a bit of it, but you should definitely read the whole thing.
“What you were trained to do, what you did yesterday… that’s a gift from your past, not an obligation. Beginning the analysis with, “what I used to do was…” is a great way to open the door to what you’re going to do tomorrow.”
Is it about AI because of what OpenAI announced this week? Is this about a friend of his that’s struggling to redefine their career? Was he reading about the impact of technological advances on humanity? Who knows??
There are a lot of people looking for work. I’ve talked to a handful of them. Don’t limit yourself by thinking so much about what people expect you to do or what you did in your last role. Don’t assume that you have to start completely over when you redefine yourself or what you do for work. Friends like Margot, Virginia, Jen, Amy, Karen and Mike have all inspired me by redefining themselves in the time I’ve known them.
I unfortunately sliced my hand open with a box cutter today. It slipped as I was breaking down a box. Had to get stitches. I’m more annoyed than anything. That said, I highly recommend the OLFA B-NL. I also recommend you only extend the tip of the blade, which definitely saved me from a worse injury.
Kids got their COVID and flu vaccines today. No tears. No issues getting them, but man is the flue shot arm sore. Had to give them some ibuprofen before bed. My arms are fine and no issues with side effects.
Watched Teen Wolf with the kids tonight. We’ve been on an 80s movie kick for a while. Not a great movie. There was some weirdo high school sex stuff that I had to explain in addition to the utterancese of a particularly gross word they had never heard before that I had to explain.
Absolutely chill-inducing and emotional to watch. My god, The Beatles mean so much.
Vaxxed to the max 💉💉 Decided to get Novavax after getting the mRNA vaccine previously.
Thanks to Jeff Gilchrist for surfacing compelling research and info.
Being a technical layperson has advantages in life and certainly in work, assuming you work in a field that leverages technology. Having the ability to converse with technical people (developers, engineers, electricians, technical support reps and so on) means that you can ask better questions, converse in a more “native language” with the person, and perhaps best of all, you can act as a translation layer with less technical people. I have found many technical people are not great at explaining concepts or their field to laypeople. Being a good communicator, to say nothing of being an engaging communicator is a skill and craft in and of itself. Masters of anything know a thing better than most AND can communicate it in an exciting way for a broad audience.
So it’s pretty remarkable when you find experts who take the time to put together explanations. I ran across Abhinav Upadhyay today from his post, “What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing”, which is an excellent example given the increasing importance of GPUs, mainly due to artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning.