Young Hands Club

Going into this review I had what is apparently my usual notion that it was going to be ugly, as the negatives loomed large in my mind. Indeed there were many, but quite a few positives too and even some improvement over last week, although that had admittedly set a low standard in some aspects.

The listing style seems to have worked for me so I’ll go with it again. The better:

• I paid down some relationship maintenance debts.
• I rescued an old coin stash from PRB clutches, with side benefit of gaining a wallet command to import keys from the common WIF format.
• I published two articles (plus the long delayed contact info) on Fixpoint, up from last week’s one. The first, on signature attachment schemes generally and in Bitcoin, was an ordeal and this apparently showed in the writing, though I think I got out mostly what I’d wanted and some interesting chats ensued. The second, on my top Trilema picks, also took substantial time to prepare but I had fun with it, and now have a handy list of enticing-to-me re-reading possibilities and ready reminders of what I like about this place.
• I got the wallet a lot further along than last week (except yeah, not done entirely as I’d imagined it could be).
• I have an appointment with MP for him to try the wallet, which definitely got the mental gears turning about documentation, install process, and failure modes.
• I got in some more question-asking practice to good effect in chatting with MP.
• I picked up the journal again at least a couple times (though I start to wonder if I’m not somehow perversely dropping it some weeks just so as to feel good about resuming the next…).
• In leisure reading, I picked back up with Don Quijote which had me mostly bouncing around the Spanish dictionary. (Though I wonder now if this is much better at “letting leisure be leisure”, given my level there; at least it’s quite non-computer-focused.)
• I humored asciilifeform’s curiosity and ended up doing some bridging there; hard to know if anything comes of it but I suppose it made for some diplomacy practice at least.

The worser:

• Overall I experienced a kind of tense sluggishness, as of being pulled in different directions and not quite running with any of them.
• I missed preparing my databases presentation.
• I didn’t fully track the comment threads on YHC which seem to be increasing.
• I almost never stuck to my daily schedule template, which previously had been working better.
• I missed most of a #o conversation time block without notice.
• Despite any number of best intentions from inside and jabs from outside, rather than getting the review done Saturday I’ve regressed to not even making the extended deadline.
• Rather than improving, my sleep pattern has slightly worsened; this then ripples out by throwing off the daily schedule from the start.
• I still haven’t revisited previously assigned reflection exercises, or tried out the prompts more recently given to Robinson.

The main change I think I should focus on next week is getting back to the basics on the schedule, using it as a guide, adjusting as necessary but not just throwing it out when things slip. Linked to this is continuing the push for daily reflection.