Notes for July 5-12

This was a weird week, during which I went back to studiously disconnecting from work as soon as possible because, well, a lot of stuff is going on. My back has also been acting up again (perhaps because of the added stress), and even though the weather has been marginally cooler, meetings still make it impossible to leave the house during the cooler morning hours. To be honest, all of it has been affecting my motivation and well-being. To compensate, I ended up writing a fair bit more than usual and taking the time to play around with some novelties (like the new SOTA models). But all this additional personal entropy/dispersion overhead also put me behind on my review schedule, and I have been chastising myself for not turning off as many distractions as possible, reminding myself that all it takes is another interesting project for me to become passionate about work again, and generally trying to do better across the board. But hey, sometimes welcome distractions literally drop out…