Having arrived at my parents’ place on Sunday after a scramble to evacuate the Isthmus, I found myself with an office to provision and an ample pile of sleep debt to pay. I shopped online and in town in a climate of increasing unavailabilities on both fronts, securing items including ethernet switch, ownable router, headset for VOIP calls, prepaid cell plan refill, surge protector, and SSD.1 The family supplied space, a table, and a temporary exemption from the ban on draping network cables over the mantelpiece.2
I did some approximation of the deferred reviews, though with considerable cost in spinning-time. This added a fresh contribution to what seems to be a growing pile of grumpiness and resistance underlying a layer of lip service to the practice. I talked about the matter with my parents, in the context of a larger question of why I keep myself under such constant pressure. We concluded that at least the way I go about it now the reviewing isn’t worthwhile, but there’s no reason it couldn’t be done much quicker; maybe less perfectionism, or less self-flagellation, or giving recorded conversations a try. While the TMSR shutdown may have added to the brain-mess, it can’t be the primary cause since this has been ongoing.
The work involved in getting a reliable and dependency-light V on Gales turned out to be much more than I’d anticipated, but I’ve now advanced it to a useful milestone — and gained all the more material to write about, though I didn’t at first see this as an upside.
In more front-line JWRD activities, I read and gave some feedback on Robinson’s sales article drafts, and got our first training session outline dusted off as a sample for prospective client Daniel Godwin the cross-shaped.
Items in the incomplete bin are testing the Keccakized TRB V-tree and local health insurance (though relatedly, we found that my parents’ doctor is not seeing new patients even for emergency). I’m thinking to leave them there and take an actual Sunday off.
An actual Sunday off sounds like a good idea really.
Regarding reviews – there’s certainly little point in doing all the spinning but that is hardly *caused* by reviewing as a process, how could it even be. So hm, it sounds like those reviews touch on some real problem but it’s not all that clear what that might be and just *why* is it so blocking/taking over really. Does it help perhaps to set yourself some concrete questions to answer about the past week instead of an open ended “review”? Knowing how you tend to go for the widest scope possible on an open ended thing, it could perhaps be that you spin & get stuck simply because of the perceived /overwhelming/ where-to-even-start-from scope.
On a different direction – is there a different timeframe/distance that you actually *want* to review?
All the above being said, reviews are meant for your gain, not as a required ritual to satisfy whatever external form.
Comment by Diana Coman — March 29, 2020 @ 8:34 am
This sounds quite likely. I could try the daily reflection questions you gave Robinson for starters.
So far I don’t see the particular interval having much relation to the want.
Comment by Jacob Welsh — March 30, 2020 @ 6:50 pm