The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

End of the month! Already! What have you got left to do in 2023? Does it matter?

Setting up for December Drumming 2023! Address: 

https://skrskimuzik.bandcamp.com/

Not sure if that will stay the same as apparently Skrski is an actual Polish name, while “skr” is apparently also onomatopoeic for the sound of cars screeching to a halt. I like the name, we’ll see how it goes. Looking to publish all of the previous years through Bandcamp as well.

Charlie Munger, 99, and Henry Kissinger, 100, have passed away. 

Kissinger as Secretary of State helped build relations with China and the US and why the Mainland has the seat at the UN and not Taiwan. He also wrote a bunch of books that I could never really get into.

Munger helped Buffett make his billions. "What you have to learn is to fold early when the odds are against you, or if you have a big edge, back it heavily because you don't get a big edge often. Opportunity comes, but it doesn't come often, so seize it when it does come."

Read the history of Berkshire Hathaway before you quote Buffet or Munger again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire_Hathaway

Imagine owning stock in someone’s company.

Editing Episode 43, and setting up next Episodes! 

Did you know you can get Google Cloud storage for like $48 CAD a year? Sync.com is based in Canada and offers 2TB storage for $72 a year. 

Show notes n tracks are up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one and see you in the mix!

Health check done, how was it?

Afternoon get together and a rather startling beer, sleep, and a midnight run. Maybe a good time to start splitting up my workouts?

Gold and silver moving!

The Land Before Time was released 35 years ago! Sad news about the girl who voiced Ducky.

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

Newsletter out! Up-skilling in the age of AI? Worth it? Language learning, worth it?

Some neat plugins being created for ChatGPT, it’s a new skill and tech you’re going to have to learn. Take a look at https://aieducator.tools/

Silver moving, gold crawling, oil stocks falling.

Money in, money out! Rent due!

Pausing on the language vlog, want to consider a few things and move into longer form videos rather than shorts.

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

Episode 43 recorded!

Newsletter in the process!

Need to get a health check done soon.

Workouts in!

Lunchtime grind: barely made 5.29 km within 38 min 20 sec.

-Then steel club work

After work: mace swings and lifts.

Six days a week going to continue for a bit, how will this work over the next few months?

December Drumming starting up on Friday!

Show notes n tracks available on stevensirski.com

Have a good start of week!

Black Friday begins! What will you buy now?!?!?

How is Ukraine doing? 

“Redefining Success in Ukraine: A New Strategy Must Balance Means and Ends” by Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/redefining-success-ukraine

-blames Trump, thinks he sides with Putin and Russia

-laments how many people Ukraine is losing, neglecting to consider the effect on Russia’s own population

Workouts in!

Lunch run 5.93km + pull ups, push ups, squats per round

-lunges along one side of the run way

After work: dogged kettlebell workout

How are gold and oil doing? Chinese markets seem to be stalled overall. Thanksgiving is usually some sort of turnaround.

Transcripts of the daily pcast… could I now make a weekly “best of”? What would I call it? Sirski’s Gold?!

Reading this book Mindset by Carol S Dweck, Ph.D. About developing a “growth” mindset instead of fixed. Points out all sorts of research and trials and stuff about how you need to have a flexible mindset and not stay rock-like in your beliefs. Not real new information, but it does have me questioning some of the things that I assume I’m flexible or “growth-oriented” about.

Show notes and tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good weekend, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Black Friday! Don’t spend too much!

These days are a flying by! Getting cold as the wind picks up! What are Beijing winters like?

Happy US Thanksgiving Day! Professional sports in Las Vegas?!

Spend an hour after work as a non-negotiable time to yourself for study. I did this with Mandarin, now with social media.

Air line points are expiring! Where to go?? Or what to buy?

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

Last of the warmth? Like clockwork… Little Snow day today and magic… the weather will turn cold in Beijing!

Workouts in!

Lunch time run: 6.5km within 37.16

Slam ball!

After work kettle bell flow

Ultramarathons are the new Corvette!

Ten ideas

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

It’s the 21st? I hope I was saying that all day cause I don’t really remember. One month till the days start getting longer!

Chinese reading not so bad, learned 滚 gǔn to roll. Dolsch word list, 100 most common words in a language, these are good starting points but they need to be built upon.

Looking through Keyboard Maestro macros, apparently people use this for Logic and Pro Tools.

Sorting photos! How often do you do that?!? I’ll confess, I don’t know how to download from iCloud. How do I find my account again??

WeGene, would you let a Chinese company profile you? What about 23andme?

Show notes n tracks up in my website stevensirski.com

Just how much can you automate?

It’s 20/23!

Upped the tech game, got Keyboard Maestro and a month long transcription service.

Workouts in!

Lunch run 5.5km or so in 36 min

Dual 5kg clubs

After work mace n clubs

Newsletter out!

Start of the work week, bro do you even know how to go?

Making your first $100,000 will probably be done working for someone else. Job hopping seems to be the key to moving up salaries.

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good start of week!

End of week!

Workouts in!

How was the change up? DIDN’T happen!

Lunchtime run

-lunges

-pull ups push ups increased every round, six rounds total 

1/2/3 2/4/6 3/6/9 4/8/12 5/10/15 6/12/18

Finding the compression garments useful.

Chinese books are readable! Easiest 25 minutes to date!

New APPs: Launchpad and Groovebox

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!