weeknotes_2026_10

COOKING/ EATING

The first meal d had was at our usual. “Do you think the rainbow roll shrank more?”
Enjoyed milkfish soup that reminded me of the mini road trip to 台南 then 高雄 for grandpa’s birthday in June.
d used up the leftover marinated steak¹ for stir-fried udon.
I was drawn back to my iPod days of mid-2000s pop at the steamed shrimp dumplings spot².
The greatest reward after cycling uphill (75k) was the lunch at the farm-to-table that served free-range chicken and stir-fried greens in a rustic greenhouse overlooking the valley. Their salted egg fried sweet potatoes were decent but sticking to rice would been the better option.

HAPPENINGS

Welcome back d! I hit a critical question in bed on the first evening, to which I responded, “Thank you for the honesty, and for replenishing the cash spent on tempting lights.”
Saw t for the first time since before Sydney, and he seemed fatigued, while d was busy on the keyboards, again.
Stretched a single small glass of beer across a 2hr chat on ongoing work projects, responsibilities, team dynamics, AI utilization, and personal relationships with sy.
Entered week two on the project I’m leading; though really, I’m just assigning more drafting to myself, hosting meetings, and doing all the minutes. It’s a lot of communicating with humans and bots in silent channels and chatrooms.
Learned a new perspective on pacing and intimacy before DTR from my friend a in Allen. One thing we both agreed on is that absolutes in values are unattractive.
m called to weigh in on the etiquette and optics of switching teams. Does wanting more pay mean having to climb the ladder? One could always treat work as work; it’s the work attitude you choose each day. But it’s obv you cannot ask for more without expecting to work hard for it, first. We went back to discussing how his boss didn’t take too kindly to the rumors, despite sounding supportive.
Played frisbee and tested out a boomerang, which dug right into the earth with a CLONK.
d skated twice along side my jogs, once bypassing j and I. “I knew it was him when I saw the Ironman.”
Never thought we’d ride up 冷水坑, Yangminshan (75k total)! There was brisk winds and fog; right afterwards, scary downhills that made my forearm swore and fingers twitch from clutching hard on the breaks, and dodging monkeys.

EDITING

Introduced two new dark modes and a light mode inspired by the strawberry matcha latte; the contrasting grid lines brought the page alive.
Fixed the mobile layout to mirror web version so clippings showed more than two posts.
Aligned level 1, 2, and 3 header fonts again.
Pending: have clipping_posts’ RSS title and URL be the source_title.

REPLACING (MYSELF)

Q built my draft from 200 controls, and we’ve been revising cell by cell since.
N does all the notetaking, and I keep handwritten notes for whatever N fails to see/understand on the shared screen. I am still useful.
G drafted emails and slack announcements in CHI= emojis yet no one seemed to care enough to read.
Q pulls up source material and paragraphs so much faster that I built a bot just for it.
Q added missing details in the first draft from the walkthroughs, but made up details that it inferred from the controls³.
s is on break, so G keeps track of the balances I need to fill in correctly.

CONSUMING

Common Side Effects (2024): I need to do a deep dive into the distrust of big pharma and COVID. Is it just me? Since 2020, there’s been an launch of new discoveries and immediate implementation to improve lives, like AI agents, and obesity drugs, things that bring instant gratification. Whatever happened to “good things take time”?
Alle die Du bist (2024): 5min into the movie, I already knew the exact reasons d casually urged me to watch it. I will give a thorough analysis when I finish. Since then, I’ve viewed d differently, with a more forgiving eye, quite literally.
The Beast in Me (2026): The most predictable show I’ve watched this year. Even ~~Carrie~~ Claire was just playing a more delirious version with increasing amounts of eye-twitching and flashbacks. It’s a show made for those (including me) who binged the first three seasons of Homeland a decade after its release and got bored with the drag.
Visiting Taiwan w/ Jensen Huang: Computex was back in May… still refreshing to watch Taiwaneses’ friendliness overwhelm the global screen.
Life Lessons at 36: Something about being a jar for friends. “I hold them, I ask questions, and at the very end add my two cents.”
Nick Fuentes vs Professor Jiang: Who Actually Runs the World?: 3/4s finished while biking. People have got to stop clipping conversations like these; they require understanding the full context. When we reduce someone’s idea to their associated group or label, we end up fighting an abstract idea of a person and becoming polarized rather than the substance of the talk. “I think the ideas stand on their merits. What matters is the message, not the messenger… What we talked about today is that ideas live and die by their predictive power… or how close they are to the truth. And I get accused of being a fed all the time.”

𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧

Footnotes

A taste of the moon festivities at grandma’s that he'd missed.
A strange smell of vanilla candles and plastic figurines; food was good, but won't be going back for the reasons.
Tbh this new project is just a semantics game for auditors.