🎓 Time flies
Ep 37: Lifelong learning, lessons in becoming one with the water, and a very special graduation.
Welcome to another edition. I hope that your week ahead is whatever you need it to be!
A Tip for the Modern Worker
Pursue personal projects. Do you want to learn a new language, skill, or have an idea for a project? Just get started. Take the initiative to make progress during nights and weekends. Use the time to learn something new and put it into practice on your own schedule. It'll show your current or potential employers that you're a lifelong learner.
This tip is one of 365 in my Handbook for the Modern Worker. My GitHub profile is full of side projects I’ve completed over the past few years. Lifelong learner? Check. In fact, I’m currently working on updating my personal website design to incorporate my drawings — those below, and the cartoons I’ve been sharing in my Funny Friday series here on Substack. I’ll be excited to share what comes of it!
#365DayDraw
I drew this and wrote the accompanying annotation as part of my #365DayDraw project 7 years ago today.
These pool goggles made quite an impression
I was immersed in Total Immersion Level 2 when I drew this in 2016. I think I’d just purchased fancy new swim goggles, too! Have you heard about Total Immersion? If you’re frustrated by the amount of energy that swimming takes, check it out. I chronicled my Total Immersion journey as it unfolded.
Commentary
I’ll keep this one short because it was a busy weekend. Graduation weekend!
Elizabeth, my eldest, graduated from Ithaca College yesterday, and today she starts her job at Cayuga Heights Elementary. Now that’s a short breather between gigs.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t share one of her earlier graduation photos. Just four months old and she’d already graduated… to a high chair! Ha.
And now she’s graduated from college! Time truly flies. Congratulations, Elizabeth!
Miscellanea
🗣 Apple announced the upcoming availability of Live Speech and Personal Voice. From their press release: “For users at risk of losing their ability to speak — such as those with a recent diagnosis of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or other conditions that can progressively impact speaking ability — Personal Voice is a simple and secure way to create a voice that sounds like them.” In short, Apple will seamlessly help you create a synthetic voice on your iPhone using your own voice. I’ll be doing this for myself: you never know what life has in store, and once your voice is gone, it’s gone.
🌾 With all of the string trimmers, lawnmowers, and leaf blowers making offensively loud appearances in my neighborhood in the last few weeks, I thought I’d share my Work-from-Home Soundscapes site again. How offensive can you make it?
🍅 Look at these beauties. I started tomatoes, eggplant, leeks, and peppers, and they’ll go in the ground early next week. Hang in there, seedlings!
