I overestimated my ability to complete the tasks I set out for the week. I am learning that writing clear and coherent text, or at least attempting to, takes much more time than I anticipate. I have also had a few slip ups with staying focused. One specific slip up was spending 2.5 hours yesterday watching El Chapo (in Spanish with Spanish subtitles) instead of doing only my 1 hour of allocated Spanish study ((I learned that I have reached a point where I can enjoy a show in Spanish. Watching tv in Spanish is not rigorous study, but I take notes while I watch the show. I pause to digest phrases I do not understand, and then I jot them down.)). Another general slip up is I am still burning a significant amount of time doing ~nothing ((Wasting time in emotional thought loops, hesitating between two options of what to do and just stalling, doing mindless activities. )).
My poor planning and faulty focus causes me to make the following changes to my Week 1 plan:
i) I’ve currently done 4/20 hours of saltmine work. Right now I’m planning to hit 12 hours of my intended 20.
ii) I will spend minimal time this weekend setting up my apartment.
iii) My post on the understanding of the what and why of V will be incomplete. I reread The V manual genesis and learned that I have only a cursory understanding of the importance of V. I am still digesting the second footnote.
iv) My annotations on asciilifeform’s v.py will be delayed until next week.
The “doing nothing” is way more important and more of a slip up than 2.5 hours on actually interacting with Spanish instead of rigid 1 hour. So it should have been mentioned FIRST. The order of items in an enumeration is not random!
Comment by Diana Coman — October 19, 2019 @ 7:16 am