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  • 94 – Updating Your Automated Monthly Planner

    Back in 2024, I made a post about creating a year’s worth of monthly planners using a mixture of Google’s Sheets, Apps Script, and Docs. In brief, I was sick of spending about an hour or two manually making these planners so I made it a (near) automated process. What I’ve created in this post

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  • 93 – What Does Imposter Syndrome Feel Like to You?

    Simple question up front: What does Imposter Syndrome feel and look like to you? I had a(nother) recent experience with that psychological pattern of doubting my skills and accomplishments. That feeling of being a fraud and the fear of being exposed for the incompetent fool that my brain tells me I am. The irony is,

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  • 92 – Reshaping the Road Ahead

    Whilst we were at our supermarket’s check out, my wife was telling me about a cast member of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Dana Wilkey, who had a $1M lollipop holder. Essentially, a lollipop holder encrusted with diamonds. Source: https://bigblondehair.com/real-housewives/rhobh/the-million-dollar-lollipop-holder-seen-on-dana-wilkey-kim-k/attachment/milliondollarlolipopholder-2/ I couldn’t resist and invited the check-out person into the conversation by asking them

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  • 90 – A Year’s Growth: What Compounding Effort Looks Like

    It’s been a while since my last post and it will be a while until I get back into the habitual groove. I thought that I’d take the time to reflect on the past year and here’s how I can summarise it in a sentence: This was the year where compounding my effort started paying

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  • 89 – Brief Break

    89 – Brief Break

    The time has come for me to make the decision of taking a brief break from writing blogs. As much as I enjoy writing about topics that I love, I’ve made the decision to take a break so that I can remain focused on the balance of life that I currently have: 2x jobs, a

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  • 88 – How to use Excel and Python to Match People into Groups

    In a previous post, I mentioned that I was responsible for tracking updates in timetables. This is somewhat of an extension of that post. I was thinking about what could happen to these groups of people after the grouping has been completed. What happens when you actually need to group people together. How do you

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  • 86 – Summing It All Up

    86 – Summing It All Up

    Are you actually the sum of your experiences? (Kant.)  Is there actually a zero-sum game when it comes to social interactions and longevity around relationships? Is your life actually the sum of all your choices? (Camus.) Even Aristotle said something to the effect of, ‘character is the sum of repeated actions.’ What he actually said

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  • 85 – Tracking my Weather Dashboard Activity Usage

    Homework Review How did you go with those polynomials from last week? Here is what I came up with. 4th degree =ARRAYFORMULA(LINEST(dataset1!D2:D351,dataset1!B2:B351^{1,2,3,4},1,1)) We are now estimating this equation in the form: Final Exam Score = e + d(Pre-test Score) + c(Pre-test Score)2 + b(Pre-test Score)3 + a(Pre-test Score)4 Where, For this purpose, it suggests that:a

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