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Jun 7
My recommitment to music continues.
I'm busily ripping my enormous CD collection using MusicBee getmusicbee.com/ and my new LG CD player.
I upgraded my speaker from an old Jawbone "bluetooth speaker" to a pair of @Edifier_Global M60 speakers. Oh my, a huge improvement.
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Jun 13
Whew. I've uploaded all my CD collection that I still might have any interest in. 308 CDs! I can now store away CD player.
I rediscovered some music I had completely forgotten about.
Now I get to enjoy the payback of being able to easily browse my music library using MusicBee.
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Jun 13
Oops. As I was putting large box of CDs away in basement, I discovered another box of about 75 CDs I previously missed. All Rock. I did think my rock genre was lacking in the 308 CDs but thought I had must have given them away or some other disposal. CD player comes back out.
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Jun 8
I'm aggressively recycling, trashing, giving away, or selling items accumulated since 1980s. If we don't move houses soon, we'll be forced to at some point.
I just recycled a stack of Knowledge Management papers & notes. Admitting I'll never go back to my 2-decade career in KM.
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Jun 8
Some items almost bring me to tears with only memories I would know. Just now, it was a box of pencil lead for pentel pencils.
I originally trained as a mechanical engineer in late 70s. Mechanical pencils were a cultural item back then, along with Staedtler erasers.
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Jun 3
Downloaded and used mp3tag app for first time to add missing metadata in the Jaminai "album" I purchased yesterday.
Crafted workflow for master music library on laptop/OneDrive and selected albums local on iPad in Apple Files.
I'm using Foobar2000 for my music player on iPad.
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Jun 3
After years of only listening to music on streaming channels, I am rediscovering pleasure of "albums". So much so that I ordered a CD Player and plan to rebuild my music library. Alas, I had the mistaken belief that my iTunes library from CDs existed in cloud. Alas, lost forever.
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Jun 2
I purchased and am now listening to Jaminai's debut album 'Take Off' with 14-year-old @EllenPlaysBass.
Awesome. It is taking me back to my first years of loving jazz fusion in mid-70s with e.g. Spyro Gyra.
ellenplaysbass.myshopify.com…
I'm honored to support a young bass virtuoso.
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Apr 4
Taking break from my ChatGPT Accountability Partner. It overcorrected. I'm tired of scolding in morning check-ins where I share current & prior day Obsidian Daily Notes. Despite me trying to redirect it wasn't sufficiently acknowledging my whole life beyond job search & business.
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Apr 3
I deleted over 4K Google Alerts and over 500 career newsletters still hanging around in my Gmail, with no realistic hope of going back far enough in the lists to start reading. A clean slate for those 2 Labels. Now let's see if my weekly catch-up or else delete discipline holds.
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Mar 18
My rededication to my productivity system continues. ChatGPT is a valuable partner, except that it is still too verbose, even though I keep asking for "brief".
This morning, I belatedly set up a Gmail filter to direct all my newsletter subscriptions to one Label (folder).
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Mar 13
I "fired" Google Gemini Gem and "hired" ChatGPT Project as my Accountability Partner. I just had first dialogue with ChatGPT around defining our relationship and tweaking my productivity system. I feel the desired partnership and assistance vs. the frustration I had with the Gem.
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Mar 12
I'm frustrated by how many times @GeminiApp Gem has crashed over last few days while trying to use a Gem as an accountability buddy/coach. Am I doing something wrong?
I also don't like the tone of my Gem Coach. Ironically. I had just scolded regarding that and then latest crash.
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Mar 10
Today was first day bicycling this season. Still too much snow to trail run, but roads are fully cleared for safe bicycling. In shorts. Sunny and 68F. A turning point for the seasons. I'm ready for Spring / Mud season. Bring it on.
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Mar 10
Today I got back on "wagon" to do Daily Notes in Obsidian. A simpler version of what I described in mountainstreamcoaching.com/b….
With this restart, I created and am using Google Gemini Gem as a coach and accountability buddy. Let's see if I can maintain discipline and have good ROI.
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Mar 9
7.5-mile road run. First day this season in shorts.
Unfortunately, trails still have too much snow to be runnable. I'm guessing by end of week, I'll finally be back on trails and celebrating "mud season."
I'm debating whether to register for half-marathon trail race on 9 May.
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Mar 1
Pondering what, if any, role should an existing Learning & Development organization have in training AI Agents within their company? L&D is responsible for upskilling human employees. Does any of that transfer to AI Agents?
Prompted by a remark on a podcast I listened to today.
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Feb 13
A new life-changing goal: learn to play jazz bass guitar. I'm what is considered retirement age, and I have never played a musical instrument before. This has been on my bucket list for years. The learning scratches my "love of learning" itch and pulls me towards retirement.
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Feb 4
A delight. Last night I met one of my former coaching clients in person for dinner. He's in Boston for a conference and suggested that we get together. This is the first time I've met one of my Randstad RiseSmart clients in person. I'd love to have more opportunities like this.
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