Merge pull request #720 from jermspeaks/content/weeknote-2025-week-09

Add weeknote 2025 week 9

Author: jermspeaks

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+description: "Weeknotes continue for catchups, which includes birding, more AI stuff, goals, and unexpected deaths."
+draft: false
+heroImage: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1506485338023-6ce5f36692df?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2370&q=80
+heroImageAlt: Unsplash image from Jazmin Quaynor showing a weekly calendar
+pubDate: "2025-04-02T17:34:00.000Z"
+tags: ["weeknote"]
+title: "2025 Week 09 - Weekly Notes"
+---
+
+### Summary
+
+It's only mid-week, and I'm surprised by the end of the month closing in on us. Two months into 2025, and I feel exhausted. Both physically because of sleep, and mentally as I've been behind on my weekly updates.
+
+### Notes
+
+[A Million Little Secrets • Josh W. Comeau](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/whimsical-animations/?from=newsletter)
+
+Speaking of birding
+
+- [‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/magazine/ed-yong-interview.html?utm_source=arielwaldman&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=first-look-inside-the-private-screening-of)
+
+Old, but still good. [PBS - John Gardner - Education And Excellence](https://www.pbs.org/johngardner/sections/writings_speech_1.html)
+
+PDF: [The Impact of Generative Al on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/wisereads/articles/the-impact-of-generative-ai-on/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf)
+
+[Before Atomic Habits: The Case for High-Impact, Time-Bound Change](https://www.kevinrose.com/p/before-atomic-habits-the-case-for?publication_id=2776405&post_id=157788632&isFreemail=true&r=1b1w&triedRedirect=true)
+
+Half of the articles offers a critique, but then the other feels delusional
+
+- [Discourse | The Mercatus Center | Substack](https://www.discoursemagazine.com/)
+  - [A critique of Peterson Academy Where Aristotle Meets Big Bird part 1 – The OpenSource Temple](https://opensourcetemple.com/a-critique-of-peterson-academy-where-aristotle-meets-big-bird-part-1/)
+  - I'll give them this. It's amazing to see how bad Jordan Peterson is doing
+
+Released this week
+
+- [Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code \ Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnet)
+
+[How to listen to Ulysses | Derek Sivers](https://sive.rs/ulysses) - wow, this one is powerful by Derek Sivers
+
+> Record (write or voice memo) all of your questions and observations. When done, ask everything to an expert or top-tier AI. Save the answers to re-read later.
+
+- Interesting use of AI
+
+- [The Death Of The Follower - The Next Era Of Content Creation](https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianshepherd/2024/04/27/the-death-of-the-followerthe-next-era-of-content-creation/)
+
+  - ![How to Make it on YouTube in 2025 (Jack Conte Interview) - YouTube](https://youtu.be/cNYw32X-WAU)
+
+- [Let’s talk about Brain Rot – The OpenSource Temple](https://opensourcetemple.com/lets-talk-about-brain-rot/)
+
+Who Is in DOGE? Tracking Its Staffers and Allies in the Federal Government - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html)
+
+- [The people in Elon Musk's DOGE universe | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/the-people-in-elon-musk-doge-universe/)
+- [The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover | WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/)
+- The engineers are mostly young men (I found one woman - Alexandra Beynon). If you're a woman, you're the secretary, hiring manager, communications, or other non-technical roles
+
+The terrible berating at the white house is the butt of all jokes.
+
+- [Trump Berates Zelensky at White House Meeting: Live Updates - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/28/us/trump-news)
+
+[If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown](https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2025/02/markdown-saves?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+
+- Interesting about using Perma to save links
+
+[21 Civil Servants Resign From DOGE, Refusing to Implement Elon Musk’s Changes - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/us/politics/doge-civil-service-employees-quit-musk.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20250226&instance_id=148485&nl=the-morning&regi_id=197092347&segment_id=191954&user_id=53888c42b17ce2b613ad43a8e73d64ef) - Really the fall of US Digital Services, not DOGE, since they got folded in.
+
+- [We are the builders](https://www.wethebuilders.org/)
+
+Trend: Watching podcasts on YouTube
+
+- [More than 1 billion people are now watching podcasts on YouTube every month | The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/news/619720/youtube-podcasts-one-billion-monthly-views)
+
+[My 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities—The Final Installment!](https://www.honest-broker.com/p/my-12-month-immersive-course-in-humanitiesthe)
+
+From OpenAI's new operator, here's [Open Operator](https://operator.browserbase.com/)
+
+- [Open Operator, Serverless Browsers and the Future of Computer-Using Agents](https://www.latent.space/p/browserbase)
+  - This interview is interesting to listen to
+  - [Open Operator](https://operator.browserbase.com/) is a reference of how tool chaining could work for brower tools
+  - Wherever there are agents, there's a tool needed for that. The more we start building those tools, the more startups there are. It's a race
+  - [Stagehand](https://www.stagehand.dev/) - The AI Web Browsing Framework
+  - Interview is with BrowserBase's Paul Klein
+    - [(9) Paul Klein IV | LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulkleiniv/)
+    - [Founders in Focus: Paul Klein IV of Browserbase | Okta](https://www.okta.com/blog/2024/11/founders-in-focus-paul-klein-iv-of-browserbase/)
+    - [Browserbase: A web browser for AI agents & applications](https://www.browserbase.com/)
+
+[The Liberating Effect of Uncertainty - Ness Labs](https://nesslabs.com/liberating-uncertainty)
+
+[No Zero Days | How To Crush Your Goals - Unfinished Success](https://unfinishedsuccess.com/no-zero-days/#Rule_1_No_More_Zero_Days)
+
+### Recommendations
+
+Books: [Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia,from Revolution to Autocracy](https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CRQHG1YV/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0)
+
+Book: by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor: [AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference](https://www.amazon.com/Snake-Oil-Artificial-Intelligence-Difference/dp/069124913X)
+
+### Obits
+
+[Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa found dead as authorities investigate cause of death | CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/27/entertainment/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-death/index.html)
+
+[Michelle Trachtenberg Dead At 39: Investigation Ongoing into Cause of Death - Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/michelle-trachtenberg-dead-39-tributes-buffy-star-latest-updates-2036754)