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Steps for getting summary from YouTube video meeting

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Also quick alternative comparison from vendor.

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Awkward technology moment: It’s getting more frustrating to use my iPad relative to my Microsoft Surface for general tasks and I’m contemplating letting the iPad fade away.

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Speaking as someone who’s used the iPad since its release and upgraded numerous times of the years (and enthusiastically so), feels odd...

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From the Maryland Comptroller’s recent e-letter update:

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The final budget includes major investments in the agency, including 25 new positions in our Taxpayer Services Division and 28 new positions related to compliance and revenue collection.

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Okay, geeking out here a little on political governance –

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And Sarah Isgur (among other stellar things, editor of SCOTUSblog) skillfully untangles, in a fresh and witty way, the loosely 100-year distending of our U.S. political system in about 10 minutes of conversation.

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Have a listen as she speaks to the...

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Be content that you are not yet a saint, even though you realize that the only thing worth living for is sanctity. Then you will be satisfied to let God lead you to sanctity by paths that you cannot understand.

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-Thomas Merton in New Seeds of Contemplation (chapter 8)

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@manton Thank you! 👍

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@news Thank you! 👍

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Definitely intrigued by this new entrant to the RSS Reader app world – Current.

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One of the core tenets of their philosophy:

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“You step in whenever you like, read what catches your eye, and step out when you’re done.”

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One-time purchase price of $9.99 across all Apple platforms – May have to check it out.

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This looks interesting: Theoretical physicist Brian Greene explains “time” at five different levels of understanding:

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youtube.com/...

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One of the most pernicious side effects of video-review challenge culture is its effect on school and youth sports. At the highest level we have reinforced the idea that every call is important, or worse, that the standard should be 100% accuracy, when not even the robots themselves are 100% accurate.

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The pursuit of perfection flies in the face of a critical lesson sports should teach. Which is: In competition, stuff happens. Sometimes people get it right, sometimes people get it wrong, but it usually evens out. Learning to accept this rhythm is a critical part of being an adult.

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from WSJ, Who Will...

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Great to start off with a series win, and also to see the new team pull together in good ways: Not giving up from trailing 0-4 in the 4th, stringing together hits that lets a three-run homer narrow the gap, good fielding, Baz settling in as starter after rocky beginning, picking up another rally kicked off...

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Random factoid for today:

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“Across 24 studies, college students who took handwritten notes were 58 percent more likely to get A’s in their courses than those who typed notes on laptops.”

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The Screen That Ate Your Child’s Education, by Jean M. Twenge for the NYT.

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(via Field Notes blog, 11 Feb 2026 post)

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Orioles Opening Day Lineup

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Orioles Opening Day Roster

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All writing is re-writing.

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Heard recently, can’t remember from whom. But great reminder.

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Apple’s new MacBook Neo - A smart product play for them, and I gotta say I’m partial to citrus. ;)

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Although I’ve only followed him tangentially, each time I’ve come across a recording or a writing of Ben Sasse, I’ve always found something highly thoughtful and incisive.

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With this video, I learned he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer last fall and his life is being only prolonged by the...

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So the world of personal finance apps (and our use/ dis-use of them) has evolved over the years. I used to be a HUGE fan of Mvelopes, but they sadly didn’t make the transition out of Javascript. And I really wanted to like YNAB after that, but as powerful and streamlined as their approach seemed to be, after...

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From WSJ 22 Feb 2026, “Wall Street’s Latest Bet Is on ‘HALO’ Companies With AI Immunity”

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After a three-year love affair with anything related to artificial intelligence, U.S. investors are flocking to the factory owners, fast-food restaurants and commodity companies that have seemingly strong odds of surviving the technological revolution intact.

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Call it the AI immunity trade, HALO—for “heavy assets, low obsolescence”—or just another iteration of the jitters that have periodically rippled through markets since the AI investing boom began. The winners include McDonald’s, Exxon Mobil XOM...

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Okay, think I’m gonna try the new MASN streaming service to catch the O’s this season ⚾

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And if I’m reading right, signing up by Mar 22 also gets you MLB.TV, which would be great – the Season Pass plan is $99 and can be activated from the MASN subscription page.

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Let’s Go O’s! 😀

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Reposting this from @manton:

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Stunning quote in this report from The New York Times about Meta’s plans to add facial recognition to their Ray-Bans: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

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😦

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Biscotti are my kryptonite … although I’m not sure what that makes my superpower … :/

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Do some main character stuff …

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Great reminders plus helpful tips on how to communicate more effectively as a leader –

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From Axiom Strategic’s podcast by Joey Brannon with Mitch Lomazov: Why Communication Breaks Down & How Communication Protocols Strengthen Leadership Effectiveness

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Not an encouraging report: Maryland ranks 49 out of 50 for ‘Best & Worst States to Start a Business’ (via WalletHub)

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@news Thank you!

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@manton Also have very much enjoyed this ad, as has my wife. She describes the voice as a grandma’s encouraging words towards creativity. I had wondered whose voice it actually was - thanks for sharing! :)

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@curiouskyle Makes me think of the Peter Drucker quote:

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> “Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two–and only two–basic marketing and innovation functions. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.”

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@manton Appreciate these types of tweaks (and similarly-inspired ones in recent months) that ‘design’ for the reality of user’s lives, and not packaged corporatism. Thanks for working to keep that forefront. 🙂👍

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@manton To be fair, I love em dashes too — most under utilized punctuation in my opinion. 😀

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@iChris I started exclusively using the time and temperature options on the dryer partly for this reason. And after a couple feedback loops, I was able to ensure predictable dryness at a predictable time (instead of the constant additional run time ‘cause the machine thought it was ready when it wasn’t). :)

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@manton Gotta love old signs! :)

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@petebrown Beautiful 🌛

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@manton Very succinctly said.

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And every once in awhile, there’s that rare soul that somehow manages to stay authentic.

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But it’s in spite of, not because of.

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@iChris You know, at first I thought you were referring to syntax and couldn’t imagine how that could be the case … then I realized it was something else entirely. :)

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@harrisong If helpful I’m using NewsBlur (for subscribing to feeds + web reading) with Reeder Classic (for iOS reading) and it’s been doing the trick. :) (NewsBlur may help achieve a savings.)

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@klandwehr Quick note - I think your Libri.fm link is accidentally pointing somewhere else (TickTick app). Fortunately, easy enough to find true link. :)

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@manton Gonna second a look at the Tumblr editor - I think they got a lot right back in the day, and part of why I stayed on that platform so long even after the original dev team moved on.

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@iChris What a great reflection on the Internet, blogging, and humanness. Thanks for sharing. :)

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@manton Wonderful game concept and so admire Nintendo’s ability to continuously be creative in new and unique ways! 🕹️

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@markstoneman Very interesting read - thanks for sharing & will be posting as well.

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