• The Week #213

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    • đŸŋ We saw Toy Story 5 in English. What a film, perhaps my favorite one yet? The writers really do hit the nail on the head about the challenges that parenting in the world of prolific screens provides. How do you balance between keeping your kid engaged with the real world and socialising with their friends (when a lot of that starts to happen online). And when every kid is a dopamine addicted iPad kid...how do you find that balance? (The answer is enforced boundaries, but that gets harder and harder to enforce as they get older and cleverer and you're tried).  I know I'll hold out on connected tech for as long as feasible.
    • ☑ī¸ I've felt a bit like my brain has been all over the place. Work. Home. All the tasks popping into my head all the time. As fate would have it, Tim Ferris had David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done and reposted it this week in episode 873. I am not a regular listener to his podcast, but it seemed wildly appropriate. Almost the algorithm has made the leap to mine directly from my head (though it's just plain ol' RSS).

      This in turn encouraged me to re-read Getting Things Done. It's been 20 years since I read it and, my life wasn't nearly complex enough back then to really need it. And it's been like an epiphany. Still early days (and I haven't finished re-reading it), but having a single inbox for all things is helping my mind relax. And that's because everything is in one place, rather than split across Slack reminder me later, Obsidian, written down somewhere, or in my inbox. If there's something I need to do, I add it to....
    • đŸ’ģ OmniFocus 4. The last time I tried OmniFocus in an attempt to start GTD, I was too cheap to go on all in and thought I could manage with just the iPhone app. Needless to say, when most of your work occurs at desk, it's suboptimal to need to reference your phone each time. Now a single license works across platforms, so it's easier to add all the things in the moment.

      The app itself, I am still getting used to, but it's made me remember an era of macOS history that is gone. You know the one. Back when every app was native and they were crafted for the platform, not web apps bolted into a wrapper. What a breath of fresh air.

  • Checkin to Yokohama Burg 13 (æ¨Ēæĩœãƒ–ãƒĢク13)

    Toy Story 5!

  • Checkin to mango tree cafe

    😋
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    Saturday Activity
    Humid hills. đŸĨĩ

    4.3km

    31.5min

    53.8m climbed

    avg bpm

  • The Week #312

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    • 6ī¸âƒŖ This post marks 6 years of writing The Week. Technically it was last week, but I proper missed, without just flubbing the status, the 6th year anniversary post and I don't really remember what I did. When I started mid-pandemic, I wasn't sure how long I'd continue. And truthfully, in this age of LLMs stealing all the content and fakes, at times I question if I should continue, but if I stopped it's a win for the the bad guys and the closed internet, and we can't have that.
    • đŸ‡ĻđŸ‡ē One of the reasons I missed was a short trip to Melbourne for work. This time I transited through Sydney. Like last time, this flight was overnight (at least to Sydney) and I actually slept decently. I skipped the main meal because it was late and, I don't need to be eating a second dinner at 11pm at night after a curry in the lounge.  I rode on Virgin airlines for the first time – getting on/off from the rear of the plane was an interesting experience. I imagine it enables more efficient boarding / unboarding.
    • ☕ī¸ I took the opportunity in Melbourne to drink as many magics as possible. I love the sheer number of cafes and coffee shops in Melbs. I think I probably went to a different shop each day and they were all excellent.
    • 🗾 I took a trip to immigration to get a new card for my permanent residence. They were absolutely slammed. What usually takes an hour or two – tops, took four, almost five. The new cards are pink and last for 9 years now and expire on your birthday, which is far easier to remember. You can merge them with your MyNumber card these days, but I opted not to because it required some extra paperwork and I'll merge my driver's license and MyNumber in my next renewal. And maybe at my next residence card renewal in 2035, the systems will be battle tested enough for me to merge all 3 into 1. 

  • Checkin to Starbucks

    Decompress after immigration

  • Checkin to Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau Yokohama District Immigration Office (æąäēŦå…Ĩå›ŊįŽĄį†åą€ æ¨Ēæĩœæ”¯åą€)

    Extending the period of validity on my resident card

  • Checkin to Air New Zealand Koru Lounge

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    in Mascot, NSW, Australia
    Short rest before heading home.

  • Checkin to Denis the Menace

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    in Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Another magic 😋

  • Checkin to Axil Coffee Roasters

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    in Cremorne, VIC, Australia
    First Magic in Aus (this time)
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