Today started with a little bit of work on block 138. That is the last locked and loaded block recorded and ready to release next Friday. Right now the block is pretty tight and does not include any fluff or enhancement at all. It’s just right to the point and at this point in time I’m just going to go with it and allow that shorter content block to publish as written on Friday, September 15, 2023. 

Yesterday, I flipped my LinkedIn profile to open to work for recruiters to see. Today the first set of those types of messages started to show up. 

It turns out at some point I started drafts of blocks 139 to 142. Something must have disrupted my writing rhythm a bit in the last couple of weeks. Generally, I don’t develop 4 blocks of content and then get surprised by them during review. It’s probably an understandable oversight. I have spent a lot of time learning and messing around with LangChain. Throughout the rest of the year my big plan is to lock in the content for 2023 by finishing writing blocks out to 156. My Google Doc with year 3 all staged and ready to go had that content lined up for completion. At some point, future Nels is going to have to take that Google Doc and move the content into Microsoft Word for manuscript formatting and publication review. 

Let’s dig into these one at a time. Starting with block 139. At this point, block 139 is ready to be recorded as a podcast and staged for publication on Substack. That review process took about 20 minutes.

Moving on to block 140 should be easy enough. I’m on a roll now. This block of writing is another rather short post. It could probably use another pass and maybe some extension into generative AI. This one is not ready to be recorded as a podcast. 

Block 141 was already a polished gem of a post and won’t really require all that much effort to revise into being ready for podcast recording. 

It turns out block 142 was only about half way done so that is where I must have stopped the design and review process. That makes this about as standard as it could be for the plan of having 5 weeks in planning or review. I was sitting with 4 blocks of content drafted or nearing completion. 

At this point, I’m going to swing back and try to get block 140 ready to record. That will put me at 3 blocks of content ready for podcast recording. That leaves about 15 blocks to complete throughout the rest of the year. That seems reasonable at this point. 

I hopped over into the Audacity software and recorded blocks 139, 140, and 141. All 3 are now scheduled for publishing on Substack. That puts the backlog at 5 weeks. I’m going to need to dig into the next blocks of content, but I have a good backlog to allow for the preparation of high quality content. 

Started this course: https://learn.deeplearning.ai/google-cloud-vertex-ai/lesson/1/introduction