Hello, friends! After my dad died, his truck sat in the parking lot for a while. The truck was in...suboptimal shape to begin with, and sitting for months did not help matters. Today, in order to get it ready for Mom to sell it, I jump started it and drove around. But the gas tank was pretty empty, so after a bit I stopped at the gas station to fill it up. When I tried to start the engine again, the battery didn't have enough juice.
I jumped it again and drove to the store so they could put the tester on it. Well it wasn't charged enough to test, so that was no good. But! It was still under warranty, so they swapped it out with a brand new battery for free.
And that got me thinking about how we use batteries as a metaphor for our mental energy. But while the metaphor holds in many ways — it's much easier to discharge than recharge, for example, and it's possible to get so drained that you can no longer tell if you're healthy or not — there's one place that it falls apart. When our mental reserves are tapped, there's no way to just swap a new battery in. No amount of self-help advice can make that happen.
Coincidentally, Treat Yo' Self Day is coming up this week. Whatever you do to celebrate, I hope it charges your battery a little bit. It's the only one you get.
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Now you see me
- At the InvenioRDM Annual Partner Meeting, I gave a talk titled "Oh no! The community is growing!" Video and slides are available from the Duck Alignment Academy post.
If you have a conference, meetup, or random soapbox you think I should speak at, let me know!
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Stuff I read
Follow the books I read on Storygraph.
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Stuff I curated
Pragmatic Bookshelf
- Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up — I was a tech reviewer for Lauren Maffeo's book, out in beta this week. Lauren provides an excellent framework for implementing data governance for leaders at any level of an organization. It gives real-world guidance that's easy to understand and apply, whether you're a data expert or not.
Fedora
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