What I Learned This Week For April 24 2020

By Mike Maddaloni on Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 11:33 PM with 0 comments

photo of notecards with gold seals

In addition to hearing my long-owned weather radio go off for the first time, there were more positive items and ideas that came before me a little more gracefully.

  • The local minor league baseball team is the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, who are the Single-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. Unfortunately they are not playing now, and as a way to raise money, they are offering memberships. But what really surprised me about them is they are a private non-profit that has not and does not take any government funds. To me that makes supporting them all the more important!
  • Sharpie recently introduced gel pens, the S-Gel, and I thought I’d try them as a gel-only user. I didn’t like their feel and their performance was not worth their much higher cost as compared to my long-favorite Pilot G2 gel pens.
  • My friend Eric invited me to be part of a study group for the famous book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. As I never read the book, I took him up on the offer to be part of the 8-week virtual program, which started this week. So far I have just read the long intros and first chapter of the book, and it has already got me thinking. I am looking forward to the remaining sessions.
  • There are 2 – yes, two – National Tooth Fairy Days – February 28 and August 22. Or numerically they are 2/28 and 8/22. Anyone else see the numbers are reverse of each other?
  • I heard of Hanlon’s razor for the first time on Fresh Take, a local radio show hosted by Josh Dukelow that is also available as a podcast. It came up in a segment called The Professors where a history and government professor provide context to news events. I will keep this phrase tucked away looking for a good time to spring it out.
  • I have been sending a lot of notecards lately, and I realize that I am licking the envelopes. As this may bother some people I sought an alternative, and found large gold seals will do the trick.
  • As I have been spending more time on this blog, I have been re-reading posts and this one, There’s Never A Best Time For Anything, stuck out this week.

Have a great weekend. Yes, the weekend is here.

This is from The Hot Iron, a journal on business and technology by Mike Maddaloni.

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