Jan 25 - Week 3

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 Overall:  

I must say, quite the excellent week - particularly from a work perspective.


Takeaways from Week 1:

  • Good 2024 annual review
  • Need to turn up the empathy dial
Behavioral Takeaways
  1. I was quite pleased with my annual review for 2024 and that prevented from being "other focused" and lost some empathy in the process (I should be forgiven though - the review was good!  :-))
  2. Not bad with my vitamin consumption
  3. Not so good with my "movement"

NOTES:

Work:

  • Got an outstanding review - literally - Outstanding on the What dimension and Outstanding on the How dimension.
  • Micky said three things:  i) 2024 was a banner year, ii) myself and team should be household names with every client (EC member feedback) and iii) we are ready to go global
  • Met with WSJ - interesting opportunity to showcase our CRA (Target Date Funds) work
  • Met with Accenture's research arm - could be interesting to collaborate with them on Technology trends
  • Could have shown more empathy to Anne when she was reeling with layoffs of her friends at the company.  I did not know that, but if my antenna was up, I could have picked it up.
  • Beginning to rollout the Higher Ed study

Home:

  • Mini also got bonus - getting to a total of $175K I am pleased
  • Town came back with response on permit for basement
  • Big trash did not get taken away!

Health & Fitness

  • Lazy on sleep mask not good - but did use it on Friday
  • Good in general with vitamins
  • Not so good with physical movement

Music:

  • Started Pachelbell Canon from Faber Book 2 - I am excited about the start - need to put in the practice
Writing etc:
  • Jugal Double Bandi Continues
  • Hologram - Reality conversation and post (with the aid of LLM)

Social

  • Met with D, Prashant and Srini for Dinner at EWR airport real fu
  • Narrated the "change your emoji" tale to much merriment

Sports 

  • Eagles beat Rams and now on to Commanders for the NFC Championship (their 8th appearance since 2000 - 3 wins, 4 losses and 1 tomorrow TBD)
  • Need to watch AUS open final mens tomorrow
Travel Plans
  • Booked Claybrook at Sugarbush for Easter

Entertainment

  • Booked Piano concert tickets for early Feb at the BSO to go with Rob


Picture of the week:   The Spherical Cow

The world is messy - so in order to analyze it with their equations, Physicists create an approximation - so that they can apply mathematics to it. 

So the joke is, if you say to a Physicist - can you analyze a Cow,  they will reply: "sure!  let us assume a cow is a sphere!"  





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