The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Episode 41 recorded

GOLD moving

Prigozin dead, or did he just make it look like it? The life and times of a working traveller!

Tough getting up this morning, not just the rain! Workouts must’ve kicked in.

Friday night will be a night off! I think. Saturday? CBD beer fest?

Finger taps on a keyboard - new track!

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Have a good one!

More cameras up on the compound, and an email about a background check? Nothing suspicious here…

Two kids, I’m not sure if they’re making fun of my Chinese pronunciation or what.

Try whatever it is you want to do or accomplish for a year and see how it is after that. So what do I want to accomplish in the next year?

Another pcast episode scheduled for tomorrow night, then will get to work editing!

How about that quantum computing book? 

The Turing test

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck

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Have a good one!

Qixi Day, Chinese Valentine’s Day… again?

https://www.chinahighlights.com/festivals/double-seventh-festival.htm

Picture credit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Niulang_and_Zhinv_(Long_Corridor).JPG

Voice box is gunky… like before I had the vid the other times.

Confucius says…

Quote: 学而时习之，不亦说乎？

Pinyin: Xué ér shí xí zhī, bù yì yuè hū?

Translation: "Is it not a joy to learn and constantly apply what you have learned?"

Quote: 不患人之不己知，患不知人也。

Pinyin: Bù huàn rén zhī bù jǐ zhī, huàn bù zhī rén yě.

Translation: "Do not worry that others do not know you; worry that you do not know others."

Quote: 己欲立而立人，己欲达而达人。

Pinyin: Jǐ yù lì ér lì rén, jǐ yù dá ér dá rén.

Translation: "Help others achieve what you desire to achieve, and assist others in reaching their goals as you strive for yours."

Editing on your phone, yes it takes a while.

Delta M3 reading: creating materials for your students. In theory, language courses should be able to be modified and specialized for each student after a preliminary test.

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Have a good one!

Is COVID back?!? Again?!?

Some apps to consider:

-Readwise - email summaries of your readings

-Snipd - Podcast player, also does AI transcriptions! Hello productivity boost!

Begs the question…

How much of this tech do we need? How do we simplify?

AI won’t replace any one person, just those who don’t use it.

Current ChatGPT hack: record podcast, have otter.ai transcribe, take transcription and put into ChatGPT telling it to use this text and create a more balanced, better laid out, etc. article. Works a charm.

Forty hours a week is part time for an entrepreneur, the key difference is that working double that isn’t stuff you necessarily hate, cause it’s all building something up for yourself.

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Have a good start of week!

Episode 40 recorded! Have a look for it in a couple weeks!

Episode 41 next week?

Workouts in!

2kms

7 rounds of 

5 pull ups

10 pushups

15 squats 

2 km run

+ another 4 pull ups, 8 push ups, 12 squats 

Post work workout: 28kg Turkish get ups, plus carries

Then podcast…

Getting cooler in the ‘Jing

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Have a good weekend!

Thursday night reading night?? I’d really like to get back into reading more.

Reading $100M Offer, the romance books I brought from Canada, and lots of comments on my language vlog. Did I tell you about the time I bought a bunch of Stephen King books?

Question: does learning another language lead to more job opportunities?

And can ChatGPT fix your grammar?!

Put some mustard on it

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Have a good one!

Hey, I have been doing things in Beijing! Eating different foods! 

Baozi 包子youtiao 油条, doujiang 豆浆

Jianbing 煎饼 and kao leng mian 烤冷面

Jiangbaojiding 酱爆鸡丁

Pollution didn’t smell that bad

run outside

6.44 kms

100 double unders

4 rounds of 

10 bench jumps

5 one arm incline push ups each arm

5 half pistol squats (5 each side)

Question, which would you rather have or do after a workout:

food

nap

stretching

compression gear

Episode 40 in the works!

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Have a good one!

Chinese class, how was it and how is it going?

Arabic, ever tried?

I have not been getting out very much but I see a lot of other people are out and about. I guess the city and the country are open again… but there’s coronavirus on the horizon!

Pollution is back in town!

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Have s good one!

Workouts in! But wow going slow!

Weekender, an introduction to microphones and too many beers!

China has had some crazy weather, Tornadoes, floods, heavy rain. Why bother saying it’s climate change?

Chinese class and the others I signed up for, what’s up?

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Have a good one!

Workouts in! Friday means… pull ups but not going for a hundred

Sustainable lifestyling?

How is my Chinese going? What’s it like to learn a language where you can’t just read write and speak all at once?

Have a clip for you from my Hindi class…

Michio Kaku’s Quantum Supremacy book is in… do I even have the time? How could I schedule in a reading day into my week?

Have a great weekend!

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