As a brief aside about the content on the weblog here we are going to swing back into some of the more functional journaling side of things. You will notice that at the end of the day or potentially the next morning I’m going to post the content generated throughout the day. I’m just going to be jumping in and out of my trusty Google Doc being used for the day and drop my notes inline with a bit of editing and linking. Those notes will then get published on the weblog. This is a throwback style of blogging that harkens back to the beginning of the functional journal days of content creation. 

Started the week 6 run of the swing state survey. The batch size was reduced from 300 to 150 on this run. Initially findings were that the 300 batch size took most of the day to complete. 

I really did not need to do any Google searches for docking stations, but sadly that did happen yesterday. The Dell Performance Dock model WD19DCS was the one that stood out to me [1]. 

Assuming a 5 hour block of focus time. I’m trying to figure out what I should target, research, build, and demo today. 

Building a generative AI active use case map of what people are doing might be interesting. 

I spent some time working on LHH scheduling for a resume review and a couple of sessions on how to best use LinkedIn.

Right now I’m battling the good fight against my backlog for the Lindahl Letter year 3 which is going to run from content blocks 105 to 156. I just moved the content blocks for next year into a new document called backlog. At some point in the not so distant future, I’m going to spend some time thinking about what 52 blocks of content should be lined up for 2024 and the 4th year of the Lindahl Letter. You may note that on two separate occasions this year that well planned and curated backlog was completely and totally torn up in favor of a change in programming. 

There are 46 days until October 21, 2023. Each new day presents an opportunity to deploy some type of demo. Each and every day represents an opportunity to build something epic. I have come to the conclusion that building and deploying some interesting prototypes to showcase building skills is the way to go moving forward. 

Interesting paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.08998.pdf 

I started to learn about Kajabi which was interesting. I have handled my own website hosting for a long time and have not used anything like Kajabi, but it is super interesting how they are bringing a full marketing stack together.

I’m still sort of conflicted about my WordPress setup not being able to automatically send a note that something was posted back to Twitter/X.

I’m now focused on block 137 and am going to spend a few hours updating that missive. It’s locked and loaded to come out now on Friday.

Footnotes:

[1] https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-performance-dock-wd19dcs/apd/210-azbn/docks-and-stands