Weeknotes of old

I found this half-finished piece of writing nested deep in a pile of folders from of an old hard-drive (which happens to be in front of me on my desk with "DEAD" written on it in sharpie). It was backed up years ago, but recently actually died.The words in this post were intended to be one of my first blog posts, but I never finished them. I guess this is really a post about my perfectionism - which makes sense as to why I didn't finish it (the post about perfectionism wasn't perfect, lol) and learning some "soft-skills" in my professional life.It was interesting to me to interrogate my original thinking and finish it off. So here it is with the half-finished thoughts, now finished. The voice of the editor (Me, 2026-Michael), will be henceforth demarcated with [Bracketed code blocks like this].On gold-plated jobs--- title: "Weekly Learning Round-Up Volume III" subtitle: "Gold-plated jobs" date: 2015-11-03 09:00:00 --- This week [45/2015] I've had some time to assess a few of the…