Seasonal veggie plate

Week 14, 2026

Conversations, coding, and a concert

This week had: a successful project delivery, two enriching workshops (one as a participant, the other as host), one dog, one cat, two potential new coaching clients, an excellent deep dive on the overlap between Gestalt and ontology, a new restaurant find in the neigborhood, plenty of interesting reading, and Josh Groban in concert.

It was a wonderful show, and I hope he tours in Europe more often in the future. He welcomed Monroe as a surprise guest, so we can say we’ve seen the 17 (!) year old singer who’ll represent France in Eurovision this year :P They sang Hymne à l’amour, a beautiful nod to Celine Dion and Paris-here’s someone’s phone recording.


Forgot to mention, last week I migrated this Weeknotes blog from Squarespace to a static site generator. Added a little Weather widget and ISBN-lookup tool for richer book information, too. It’s working well, and in fact, I find myself tweaking the code over writing, which is a familiar dilemma. Haven’t decided what I want to do with that yet…

Books
朝井リョウ
文藝春秋, 2022
Robert Harris
National Geographic Books, 2009
Han Kang
Hogarth, 2016
Barry O'Reilly
2026
Janice Hadlow
Henry Holt and Company, 2020
Gail Honeyman
HarperCollins, 2018