Notes For September 27-October 3

This week was a bit different. For starters, it rained. And I visited the local office. And I consciously set aside hours to catch up on my writing instead of herding AI or doomscrolling, and again, failed at a bunch of that because–well, I lied. Work has been… odd, discouraging and, above all, draining, so I’ll just get that out of the way: Every time there is a reorganization, a bunch of wheels are reinvented. That is fine; it’s part of the transition process. But the kind of wheels that people focus on during those transition periods is, I think, the most telling signal of whether that reorganization actually needed to happen. That said, after a late-night stint last Friday pouring a bit of my soul into an internal project that might actually be fun but ultimately pushed the “buffer zone” between work and real life into the red, the week was finally over and I could sit down and focus. Sharper Gherkins I’ve been trying a new tactic for doing small projects, which is to have AI take…