Sprint 2: Maybe Sprint Themes are Perpendicular

Monday, January 16 - Sunday, January 29, 2023: (This Sprint had a theme about the "visual display of non-quantitative information", but the biggest learning from this sprint was I just need to go with the flow, and find where themes might be "perpendicular" to Sprints.) ~~As a person who is a visual thinker, I want an overview of tools and methods for organizing information such as written notes and images in ways that can help me make sense of it.~~

Sprint 2 Retrospective: It turns out my "sprint themes" are perpendicular to my sprints

Chalk this retrospective learning up to "I sort of kind of knew this might be the case, but wanted to try something different anyway." When I started planning the approach for my 26 Sprints in 2023, I wanted to focus on a theme per sprint. That immediately became

Emerald Isle (Belize City, Belize C.A.) docked east of Great Shiplock Park, Richmond, VA - January 2003

Google Maps shows this property today as "Dock Street - Capital Region Land Conservancy" and the dock appears to be well-maintained twenty years later in 2023 still.

"Robot Home Improvement", or Taking the commercialization of AI, VR Metaverse, and Self Driving to its logical conclusion as a homeowner.

A friend who does not approve of Boston Dynamics' robots recently posted a video (at the bottom of this post too) of their bipedal robot Atlas working at a "construction site," to a Facebook group we're in. Partly to troll him, but also because I

Photo walk: Dock Street, Tobacco Row, Bascule Bridge. Richmond, VA. January 2003. A snowy but sunny day.

Richmond, VA was blanketed by snow in January 2003. Here are some pictures I took while walking around the Dock Street / Tobacco Row area on a sunny day, January 17, 2003 (20 years ago today).