Weekend Wrap 2/15/2026

Each weekend, I like to pause, reflect, and look back on the past week. This isn't a deep dive or grand reflection—just a quick review of a handful of things that brought me joy, made me think, or challenged me.

Music

There is just something different about live music.

There is a different energy, a vibe that you just don't get with the studio album. I also love hearing the music faithfully reproduced in the live setting. I don't have the opportunity to go to as many concerts as I would truly like to, but a great live album is a good way to feel a fraction of that energy.

So, I've created a playlist of excellent live albums from my music library, and have been enjoying that energy over the last couple of weeks. I know that not everyone loves live music, but they work really well for me.

Refinement

This week didn't go so well. Between multiple nights in Boise for a swim meet, nights watching the Olympics later than my planned schedule allowed for, things just didn't go as planned.

And I could tell. My sleep hasn't been awesome this last week, and it has impacted my workouts as well. Honestly, this past week was really off in a lot of different ways. I need to get back on track.

I suppose that is the beauty of life: we can correct and get back on course.

That's the plan for the week.

Quote of the week

Surface Value is what you immediately see. Real Value is what you don't.

When you default to assuming that a role or job is just the sum total of its Surface Value, you make costly decisions that ignore the Real Value hiding in plain sight. You systematically misprice reality.

-Sahil Bloom

I read this just yesterday.

It hit like a dump truck.

Everywhere I look lately, surface value. At work, that is a constant: the organization makes decisions based only on Surface Value. They refuse to even consider the Real Value. Decisions are made, consequences be damned, if they are even considered in the first place.

It is demoralizing. It makes trusting the decisions almost impossible. And there isn't a damn thing I can do about it because that is the reality we live in: decisions only matter for the next 90 days. Our focus isn't on the future, just that next quarter. And we see that in every industry. We have completely lost the plot of what matters most, in favor of what matters next.

It's going to bite us in the ass. But no one cares, because it won't bite us in the next 90 days.

All I can do is make sure that, in my small clinic, we look beyond the next 90 days, we seek to see the Real Value, and we protect those on our team.

Area of improvement

Obviously, it is working on my refinement. I need to get that nightly routine dialed back in. It made a noticeable difference. And that is a difference I could use in my life again this week.

While there are multiple moving pieces to this, the key one is really getting off my phone. Not using it at all when I am in bed. If I want to use it, I need to get out of bed. It needs to be intentional, not accidental.

Wrapping up

Some weeks just feel difficult. This was one of those.

Work felt off. My routines at home were all a bit of a mess. I didn't meet my personal expectations this past week. All I can do is recognize that, and do better this week.