Brian Feeney
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12/09/24
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Work Notes

Every work day, I start my note-taking with a simple template.

## [meeting name]
- note

## [meeting name]
- note
- note

## To Do
- [ ] thing to do

## Notes
- things I did
- things to remember
- random thoughts

## Launched
- listing finished/shipped things

Having a regular template helps to be sure I'm capturing everything I should be.

The first thing I do in the morning is choose two or three high priority tasks I need to complete before end-of-day and add them here. Not every To Do; only the most important ones. Other stuff will naturally get done.

Notes from each meeting are grouped under a header. Important info. Links to shared docs. Ideas I have. New tasks to do. People to contact later. All those things.

Then a Notes group which I usually fill out at the end of the day. Here is where I journal what might not have been captured above in the meeting notes. Important sidebar conversations I had with colleagues. Tracking company news. Personal feelings on how the day went. Etc.

The Launched group is to track anything significant we finished designing or shipped to production. It's good to have this for reference. Especially for later reference. You can control-F search the doc to look back on when a thing was done.

Which reminds me that an important part of this is appending each day's notes to a Work-Journal.txt file. It's a record of everything and has been so so helpful when I need to know when I did something, or had a particular convo with someone. The journal goes back years, and is a rich document of what I've accomplished and learned over that time.

November 25, 2024

blog


eXodus

If you're reading this, and you're still on X, I'm kindly asking that you leave. It is no longer Twitter. It's a sister site to Truth Social, Gab, and 4chan. If you do not have a good reason to have accounts on those sites, you do not have a good reason to stay on X.

If you've already left, thank you.

I left two years ago and I'm fine. The last time I legitimately logged in to read my feed was October of 2022, the week Musk bought it. I deleted my account permanently the night before Twitter officially became X. I'm on both Mastodon and Bluesky, and they're ok. They're unquestionably better than whatever it is Twitter has become.

One thing I'd love to see Biden do in his remaining months in office is to pull every official account from X and formally write that decision into policy. When Twitter was an open site that allowed people to follow accounts for important, potentially life-saving information, it made perfect sense to post there. It is now actually harmful in that hurricane warning alerts are sandwiched between racist memes posted by Musk and Hitler-praising posts by some no-name bluecheck.

Obviously, that official position would be immediately reversed by Trump. But the ensuing media storm around the decision would be worth it. We'd get a news cycle explaining why the US government will no longer post to X, and then a second news cycle explaining why Trump would reinstate those accounts on a Nazi website. Even if nothing really changes in the end, that's a lot of words and air time spent explaining to the American people exactly what kind of website X is.

Elon Musk spent millions of dollars to reelect Trump, and spent the night at Mar-a-Lago celebrating their win. If you yourself would not have attended that party, you should not continue to visit its online counterpart. X is now a functional extension of the new Trump Administration. There are better places to be.

November 08, 2024

blog


PA Pumpkins

Visited our friends in Pennsylvania last weekend to hang with them and their kids and carve pumpkins. I went for a classic design, but managed to give him a little attitude.

October 31, 2024

journal


Green Wood Cemetery Tour

It's spooky season so we took the nighttime tour of Green Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. A couple fun facts learned: 1) When it opened in the 1860s, the Cemetery was for awhile the second most visited attraction in the entire USA, behind only Niagara Falls, and 2) before it was a cemetery, it was the location of the very first battle of the Revolutionary war, led by George Washington. Our guide David had a ton of other great stories but I'll leave it to you to visit to hear them for yourselves. 

October 26, 2024

journal


October 23, 2024

journal


Driving Range

Driving Range

Invited by Bobek to the Chelsea Piers for an evening at the driving range. The sunset was a show.

October 17, 2024

journal


Teabag Friend

teabag graffiti

Spotted while on the train to Hudson a couple weeks ago.

September 26, 2024

journal


The Babies

The Babies

At the Warsaw in Greenpoint. Invited by Jess, always the best concert partner.

September 25, 2024

journal


Creative Mornings NYC

Attended this morning's Creative Mornings. First time in a long time. Speaker was Liz Tran, an executive coach and podcaster. She was good! She provided a much needed reflection on being agile, not rigid, in times of change and uncertainty.

September 13, 2024

journal


September 09, 2024

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