Weeknotes 24:21

June 13, 2024

Week of June 2–8

Resume Makeover

I watched Resume Makeover on LinkedIn’s learning platform the previous Friday. This week, I did the hard work of applying what I learned. It took much longer than I had anticipated to revise my resume. I spent the entire week working on it and “finished” it on Friday. My daughter helped me by suggesting edits and allowing me to bounce ideas off her.

At times, it felt quite fragmented as I struggled to get ideas to come together. But eventually, I got there and had a version I could use to apply to some job opportunities at the end of the week. I will continue to polish it and refine it. I am quite happy with the foundation I laid this week that I can build upon.

Walking

I started walking in my neighborhood in early March to prepare for my trip to Europe at the end of April. I have continued this discipline after returning home. I have found it to be a helpful discipline in this phase of life as I look for a new work opportunity.

It has been a great walk to get the blood pumping and allow me to think about through the day and to spend time praying. I came up with several ideas for my resume makeover while walking last week. The exercise is a great counter to the stress of the job search.

I walked about 22 miles last week, the most I have walked in one week since I started tracking it on Strava in March. I probably walked more than then while on my European trip but did not track it.

Articles I read

• Turning Fifty (Jonathan Snook)
• Birmingham-Southern baseball loses on walk-off homer in DIII College World Series as school shuts down (The Athletic) – This was a fun story to follow. Unfortunately, they lost the next day and they were eliminated from the tournament.
• Become a Transformative Ambassador (Paul David Tripp)
• Hosting (Jeremy Keith) – Jeremy is hosting several conferences in the weeks ahead.
• Novels as Prototypes of the Future (Jim Nielsen)
• Man City are taking legal action against the Premier League – what does it all mean? (The Athletic)
• Why this latest Manchester City legal row feels different (The Athletic)
• A modern approach to browser support (Richard Rutter) – ClearLeft put together a browser support policy and Creative Commons licensed it for the rest of us. I thought it was a very sound policy that I have roughly followed in my approach.
• The Incredible Blessing of My Father’s Difficult Final Months (Eternal Perspectives Ministry)
• A Decade Later, A Decade Lost (Eric Meyer)

What I watched

• White Collar (Netflix)
• Gilmore Girls (Netflix)
• The Great British Baking Show, Collection 6 (Netflix)
• Unfrosted (Netflix)
• Silent (Netflix)
• NBA Finals Game 1 (ABC) – I enjoyed watching the game with my son.

Books I am reading

• Not by Sight: A Fresh Look at Old Stories of Walking by Faith
• The Secret Lives of Color

Walking

• Monday morning – 3.82 miles in 1 hour 13 minutes
• Tuesday morning – 3.38 miles in 1 hour 2 minutes
• Tuesday night – 3.34 miles in 1 hour 5 minutes (with my son)
• Wednesday morning – 3.17 miles in 58 minutes
• Wednesday afternoon – 1.14 miles in 20 minutes (short walk to clear my head after a phone call)
• Thursday morning – 3.64 miles in 1 hour 7 minutes
• Friday morning – 3.47 miles in 1 hour 5 minutes

What I played

FIFA 23 (Manchester City)