I’m not sure I learned anything last week

Sunday weblog notes from December 21, 2025 that were compiled and shared.

It’s that time again for a bit of Sunday reflection about the previous week. This week I have some espresso shots and that bit of time to write. Unfortunately, I’m not entirely sure that I learned anything last week. It was certainly a week of action and content was created every day. Seriously, my productivity level was very high. Things happened. I obeyed the forms and nothing was ignored or forced to wait for later. Strangely enough almost every week I tend to spend some time learning something new or digging into some article, concept, or new theory. Mostly it was just a week before the holidays and that should have been enough. My expectation of learning something new and valuable every week is really about my interest in striving forward toward that perfect possible future.

All of my various writing backlogs have been moved over to Google Tasks and that has worked well enough. Instead of throwing things into Google Keep for later they are just getting stored in Google Tasks. Overall, that switch has not really impacted my workflow or the creative writing process. Part of that backlog may be just inherent in my backlog efforts is the assumption that I’m going to spend time learning something new. It’s maybe one of the more base things in my tree of expectations that it mostly just remains assumed. This week however the lack of a little bit of learning happening was enough to spark this missive. Last week I spent time thinking about the Substack video features and what it means to contribute video content. I even looked into how teleprompter video actually worked.

It’s probably time to do some rack and stacking within my backlog. That is something I should have some time to work on today. The remaining Kansas City Chiefs football games this season are mostly just background noise at this point. I plan on spending a few hours watching the Colorado Avalanche play the Minnesota Wild this evening assuming the streaming rights work out correctly. Sometimes even with the Altitude+ subscription a blackout happens from time to time. You would think that at some point you would just be able to buy the streaming rights to your favorite team for the season without needing half a dozen logins and services. The way fragmentation seems to be happening within the NFL broadcast rights that seems increasingly unlikely. Hockey and the NHL generally might have a better shot at just having everything on ESPN to lock into one service. My general view on the NFL is that I’m going to watch whatever games are on broadcast television using my antenna.

Strangely enough this morning the thing that really got me to lock in was my disappointment in the streaming practices of professional sports. That realization is somehow disappointing. It’s Sunday and I have time for pondering life, the universe, and well everything. While streaming sports rights are a very small slice of the everything part, it’s not a very important part of that consideration and all things considered the stronger part of my efforts should have been directed at something from my backlog.