Weeknotes #354

Emma passed her reading, listening and writing components of the English test she took a couple of weeks ago. There’s still a speaking component that they conduct separately that she has to do. Hopefully that goes similarly well. Speaking of Emma, she went on her first extended trip all on her own. Her school had a camp that took the kids out to Chiba and she was away for Wednesday and Thursday night. Oh my goodness, what a difference a third child makes. I have no idea how parents who have more than three kids manage it. On Thursday, I was going to make a snarky joke on Bluesky about nobody caring about Meta’s Muse a couple of weeks post-launch, but I wasn’t sure that was true and so called Brandon instead. We had a 30-minute chat while I walked from my office to Yurakucho Station discussing Muse and this generation of cloud-based agents. I expressed my scepticism about the entire category on the basis that I don’t believe ordinary people want to enhance the productivity of their…