I've just finished a modestly onerous administrative task.

It lead me to think about effort and the 3 legs of my job: research, teaching and admin: While there are intrinsic reasons to do research and teaching to the best of your ability, for admin "good enough" is enough. Focus on efficiency not excellence, where efficiency includes making things work, not causing extra hassle in the medium term.

Musk over-promises and under-delivers.

Again.
And again.

Everyone laughs at him, but he's still the richest person on Earth and press reports do not continually ridicule him.

WTF is wrong with the world?
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/0536231/spacex-prioritizes-lunar-self-growing-city-over-mars-project-musk-says

One of the eternal verities of the #SixNations in question: Italy home game without glorious sunshine!