📷 Missing the fall colors from The Smoky mountains — no such luck here in Florida.

My Deep Work shortcut on Siri Shortcts is working wonderfully! It puts my phone on do not disturb mode and starts playing the Disco playlist. Coworkers have even learned to see the time timer above my monitor, know I am doing focused work and don’t knock on my door.

Spent an hour trying to convert an array into a range in Excel. Discovered that the data is too large for excel to handle the conversion. I like these little trajectories of explorations, even if they lead to dead-ends sometimes.

My wife and I took Olive on a 4 mile hike yesterday on the AT with 1000 ft of elevation gain. I think that was a bit much for our old girl.

The Smokey’s are all red and brown this time of the year. Picture taken from Silar Bald, ele. 5200 ft.

Resting on Silar Bald after a 1.8 mile hike, elevation 5200 feet. You can see Nantahala lake from here.

The Fontana Lake is low. Taken from the Goldmine Trail, at the end of the Road to Nowhere.

My favorite person

Smokey’s in the morning

Journaling advice from Dr. Pennebaker via Austin Kleon >If you’re distressed about something, Dr. Pennebaker advises, set aside three to four days to write for 15 to 20 minutes a day about it. If you don’t find a benefit from it, he says, “stop doing it. Go jogging. See a therapist. Go to a bar. Go to church.”

Today I discovered Servant Leadership via this post

Going to watch The Shining for the first time today — special showing at the local movie theater.

Re-sorted my RSS feedreader categories – Cat A for what’s occupying my attention these days, Cat B for what to read if I am done with Cat A, Cat Other for everything else. I wish I could remember which blogger suggested this technique around a decade ago. This works so much better than categorzing by topic.

“Improvements in communication make for increased difficulties of understanding.” — Harold Innis … via CJ Chilvers