- Flow of events :
- Saturday, March 14
- I met with Jacob to discuss JWRD options and strategy.
- I continued the OS threads on complexity and next steps with trinque.
- Sunday, March 15
- I wrote a microblog published in #o that addressed some next steps and questions following the closure of TMSR and discussed in channel.
- Monday March 16
- I asked the primary question Jacob and I were considering : How will TMSR closure effect Bitcoin and what should we do about it ? Diana Coman helped us realize Bitcoin will continue to Bitcoin without TMSR and it makes sense to continue making it central in our service offering.
- Tuesday March 17
- I shared what I had of the JWRD sales article. It was identified I was making unnecessary projection and plan to shift to a more direct approach established.
- I commented on trilema to thank MP and give notice of postponement of CR visit due to border closure.
- Wednesday March 18
- I worked on the JWRD sales article.
- Thursday March 19
- I worked on the JWRD sales article.
- In the evening I learned Panama decided to close border to travelers for 30 days, starting Sunday, spent Thursday night into Friday morning discussing my options and deciding what to do.
- Friday March 20
- Started planning and packing for travels, divided my things into replaceable and irrepaceble.
- Saturday March 21
- Finished packing and tying up loose ends, left for airport.
- Sunday March 22
- Crossed border and started settling in VT.
- How I changed :
- I came to terms with the closure of TMSR and started to map out what I am to do about it.
- I took a hard look at my status in Panama and Vermont.
- I decided to shift my physical presence for the indefinite future.
- While I started strong with the daily reviews, I completely dropped them for several days. This week should have been when I leveraged the tool the most instead of choosing not to.
Summary
It’s not every week you take a life altering decision. My mindset is to prepare to return to Panama in April, while also preparing to live in Vermont for six months if the border remains closed. Use the leverage I have here to further my progress on the long term goals I have been working to achieve.
March 23, 2020
RMD review week 20, Mar 14th-22nd 2020
JFW plan, week of 23 Mar. 2020
Daily template
Morning (5h):
- 1h warmup & breakfast
- 2h write for blog + break
- 2h recent log + article reading + responses, ((Though #trilema is closed, I still plan to follow what’s left, and I anticipate trilema.com comment threads staying pretty active.)) or errands ((In the cooler climate I don’t see an advantage in scheduling errands first thing in the morning.))
Afternoon (6h):
- 0.5h lunch
- 1h reading: leisure on Mon/Wed/Fri, work or TMSR related on Tue/Thu/Sat, choice on Sun.
- 1.5h focused project work time
- 3pm – 5pm (UTC-4) project work + #o chat window
- 0.5h walk or exercise
- 0.5h flex
Evening (5h):
- 2h dinner
- 0.5h blog prep
- 1.5h flex
- 0.5h journal
- 0.5h winding down
This indicates 4-5.5 hours for project work on typical days. Subtracting 4 for weekly review and planning and 4-6 for social time gives 18-30 in the week.
Specific tasks
1. Equip a proper workspace at my new location (involves ordering some network gear and peripherals and running a cable): 4h.
2. Complete past 2 weeks’ deferred review: 4h, due Monday.
3. Research and apply for temporary local health insurance: 4h.
4. Patch v.pl for keksum; test; publish vtree and starter building on Diana Coman’s v2 with installation docs: 3h. ((I’m seeing something like bvt’s v.sh as the way forward but the tried and mostly-true perl one as a present necessity.))
5. Press and test mod6’s TRB Keccak tree: 1h.
6. Assist Robinson as necessary with chasing deals or editing sales content.
dorion: cruciform, jfw will get you the outline, I’ll get you the per module pricing, and I’ll give you an update on the written review after I’ve spoken with client that completed the lessons.
jfw: cruciform: we’re a bit busy with getting settled in at new locations now, but I expect we can have these to you by Sunday and will ping you here if that changes.
7. Next week’s review: aim for Friday as advised last week pre-crisis.
Time permitting
8. Continue v.sh study.
9. Local networking (meet neighbors, maybe look for local discussion groups online since few will be up for meeting in person).
AR Review March 16th – March 22nd And Plan March 23rd – 29th
Review
I opened the week with the investigation into whether the seemingly obvious audience that might benefit from a platform to advertise on could be worked with. It turns out that even if the local independent putas/sexworkers would want it, allowing them to advertise as such would deliver a poor experience for punter readers looking to solicit their services. And so the potential pool of advertisers in the local sex industry shrunk from apparently several hundred girls to a much smaller set of brick and mortar establishments.
That left me at Tuesday morning. Every evening this week the government held a press conference announcing the number of confirmed cases of this not-quite common cold circulating and started ad-hoc suggesting things “the people” could do. These things were promptly followed en mass. After the suggestion was made that the “Shoppings” (( It is what they call the malls here. )) should reduce their hours, they did. When they suggested the Shoppings close everything but their pharmacies and grocery stores they did. It turns out they Uruguayos may not often perform when asked to do, but if the performance asked is to not do, they oblige enthusiastically.
In the uncertainty, I decided to start moving forward with the new thing. Doing a lot of networking irl is proving to be something other than easy with the herd locked into panic, but that same panic may be a useful filter for people capable of thinking. And so I registered the .net and .com of the new thing’s domain, stood up an mp-wp, and started putting news on it Thursday evening. I’ve published 10 pieces since then, hammered out a blog post introducing it, and put the Quantcast bug in last night.
Testing the new site’s design it has been tweaked a bit, but as of yesterday I’m satisfied it’s stable enough to not break on the small vertically oriented screens that seem so popular these days.
Review prep ended by taking off the beard. If the social environment here degrades to the point where putting on ritual PPE is expected in order to do things IRL, I am at least going to wear my FFP2 masks the right way.
Plan
This upcoming week, my priority is to try to do as much IRL meeting of people as I can despite the resistance.
Lesser priorities to be pursued:
- Build the photograph inventory up.
- Start scaling up the blog commenting campaign, back to the US dissident-dreaming right to start.
- Target at least three stories a day Monday though Saturday, looking for actual happenings amid the noise, the chance I happen upon fodder for one while building the photo inventory up is substantially greater than zero.
- Deal with the inevitable design complaints of the “Your site is broken on my weird” as they come in.
- Keep up with the local insanities. They may be noise as far as the editorial line goes, but I’ve still got to be prepared for whatever inconveniences they think of next.
- Fill out footer pages on the new site with contact info, etc
- See if I can get new business cards printed and get some prices for weather resistant stickers.
While all this is going on, I’ll have to keep the notekeeping going with an eye towards moving out of bullet point and back towards attempting to budget time.
WH Plan For Week 24 (Mar 23 – Mar 29)
This is basically a repost of last week’s plan.
1. Monday 03/23
1.1 Saltmines (6h)
1.2 Daily Writing Exercise (Outline) (2.5h)
1.3 Read perseus version of Aristotle’s poetics(4h)
2. Tuesday 03/24
2.1 Saltmines (6h)
2.2 Daily Writing Exercise (Publish) (2.5h)
2.3 Spanish Lesson (2h)
3. Wednesday 03/25
3.1 Daily Writing Exercise – (Outline) (2.5h)
3.2 Study virtual memory, with the goal of learning how to diagnose TheFleet memory management issue. (4h)
3.3 Create a function for checking if a channel on a network has been successfully logged for 2 weeks. (4h)
4. Thursday 03/26
4.1 Daily Writing Exercise (Publish) (2.5h)
4.2 Publish logs for first batch of channels. (4h)
4.3 Organize next batches of channels to log (4h)
5. Friday 03/27
5.1 Daily Writing Exercise (Outline) (2.5h)
5.2 Spanish Class (2h)
5.3 Relevant work on TheFleet (6h)
6. Saturday 03/28
6.1 Daily Writing Exercise (Publish) (1.5h)
6.2 Plan and review for next week (4h)
6.3 Read perseus version of Aristotle’s poetics(4h)
7. Sunday 03/29
7.1 Daily Writing Exercise (Outline) (1.5h)
7.2 Open Slot / Makeups (5h)
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WH Week 23 Review (Mar 16th – Mar 22nd)
This week has so many compounded failures that there is not much to review. My mind and time was preoccupied with Catalonia. ((She has returned since her departure.)) It’s clear now that I’ve walked into her web. I will have to regain control of my schedule.
To stay positive I will mention some of the good things that came of this week. First off, Catalonia has been helpful for my Spanish. She speaks English well and that is the primary language we use to communicate. But we often go into bouts of Spanish that last a while, and she is helpful/patient with fixing my pronunciation. She also informed me that learning Spanish in Guanacaste is akin to learning English in Jamaica. I knew that the locals spoke a ghetto Spanish but this put the gravity of how bad the accent/slang is here into perspective.
I prepared for Armageddon by stocking up on non perishables. I could have done better by getting a fishing rod. ((Another mistake I made was not buying alcohol; Costa Rica has now mandated that the country is dry – stores are not allow to sell booze.))
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March 22, 2020
DG Week 1 Plan Mar 23-29 2020
I’d originally planned to get started today, but’ve had a few nights of insomnia, so took the day off to rest. Goals are to get a feel for the Young Hands program; figure out if I’m interested, enquire about JWRD computing, get reading TAOCP and sort out an IRC connection, as well as timestamping daily activities to see what I’m spending time on. No time estimates included for tasks, since I’ve no idea how long any of this’ll take. [edit: time estimates added after each task]
1. Read #o logs for the month of Feb 2020, and write weekly log summaries. This should give an idea of what YH is about. (20)
2. Write an article stating what I think YH is, what I want, and whether the two intersect. (4)
3. Setup a box to be permanently connected to #o (4)
4. Research setting up an IRC bouncer (4)
5. Spend 20 hours studying Knuth’s TAOCP (20)
6. Enquire regarding http://dorion-mode.com/2019/11/jwrd-computing-the-why-how-what-and-way-forward/ in #o (3)
7. Publish daily agenda timestamps (7)
Summary: Everything’s tentative, but I’ll soon figure out if I’ve bitten off more than I can chew!
March 17, 2020
ejb review of Mar 9-Mar 15 ; plan for Mar 16-Mar 22
Mp-wp bot delivery
Well, I delivered the log history dump at least, but MP has confirmed that since he has left IRC behind him he has little need for a irc-to-blog interface. I mean, it makes sense.
Still, I put a lot of work into this thing and it does do some cool stuff you know? I’d like it to live. Fortunately, my Master has indeed expressed that she would like it for #ossasepia/Ossa Sepia as long as it is demonstrated to be a reliable process. Time still needs to tell on this, however, but hopefully it can turn into something.
Saltmines
I’m in the 2nd half of the month now so things are a bit quieter, which is good. Still, while I got off to a good start with my daily-sending-of-job-applications I eventually petered off. Need to pick this back up starting tomorrow.
And thanks to this month’s hysteria, I may be getting some upcoming reprieve on this front in the form of mandatory work-from-home time for two weeks. I’ll see if the hype lasts long enough for this to happen though..
House clean-up
This has been going quite well. The next thing I really need to face now, though, is the mailing of my ex’s old stuff. I’m gonna see about actually mailing some shit next week or at least assessing the cost.
Blog
I did not get much work done on my penance article last week, which means I’ll be tending to my neglected blog as a first priority this week. I also would like to write something touching on the dissolution of the world’s only sovereign, but there’s a lot of thoughts there obviously. I almost want to try combining the two but I’ll see how that works out. There’s also the Shinjiru write-up and the HostOne write-up, but those aren’t pressing really, so I’ll let them slide for now.
March 16, 2020
AR Review March 9th – March 15th And Plan March 16th – 22nd
In review I managed to get a very primitive version of the commentable blog discovery crawler working just as the Republic experiment came to an end. For a few days my dumb bullhead wanted to make Qntra work, but the question remains:
diana_coman: BingoBoingo: the more important point to take home re Qntra’s current lack of economic activity and market value is that you have to aim specifically and work so that the future qntra DOES have such wonders or you might as well burry it now and save some time; you said you plan to run it as a business – the very meaning of that IS economic activity and market value.
Every idea for bringing Qntra into the economic loop as a business post Republic, seems a more workable fit if I try something smaller than “take over the Bitcoin News space” that’s targeted to the world I have better access to. Still bigger is that every case I could make for Qntra smelled too strong of sentimentality. Maybe the thing could be warmed up three years out if the end of the Republic does some sort of ivermectin magic, but… the definition of insanity is…
The idea that’s coming together is an English or English/Spanish language online news service for Montevideo/Uruguay in the lean alt-weekly vein, but less retarded. It could grow into a general distributed LATAM expat paper or move hard into Spanish down the line and challenge the incumbents. This is the opportunity to unload all the brainworms that accumulated under the “Most Serene Republic” masthead and work to do it as a business that can stand on its own rather than having a Most Impossible Republic inflating it. The sort of news that ended up appearing on Qntra could still end up in the International, Economy, or Technology sections of the new paper with largely the same editorial tack. I’ve just now got to grow into becoming an ad sales department.
For potential monetization, I’m initially inclined towards three potential advertising markets:
- Putas and punters
- The expat/retiree real estate crowd
- Hosting some conferences and events that sell tickets
This coming week I’ll continue measuring the piers and post holes of the first two lines, but the third’s potential is going to be dependent on growing my reputation and name as an authority on Uruguay. This means I can adapt much of the Qntra spreading plan to the more narrowly targeted new publication. With that I’ll be refining the plan, getting a seed of a site online to start the filling the future archives, and making sure there’s a actually a foundation to grow from as I start building the new thing using the tools that exist. It’ll also be mine so I can end it if it ends up not making sense.
I’ve got a couple market research meetings scheduled for tomorrow, there may or may not be a real estate conference in the neighborhood to check out this weekend. I suspect that’s getting canceled over the not quite common cold derp panic.
WH Plan for Week 23 (Mar 16th – Mar 22nd)
1. Monday 03/16
1.1 Saltmines (6h)
1.2 Daily Writing Exercise (Outline Travel Article) (2.5h)
1.3 Review logs (2h)
2. Tuesday 03/17
2.1 Saltmines (6h)
2.2 Daily Writing Exercise (Publish Travel Article) (2.5h)
2.3 Spanish Lesson (2h)
3. Wednesday 03/18
3.1 Daily Writing Exercise – (Outline) (2.5h)
3.2 Study virtual memory, with the goal of learning how to diagnose TheFleet memory management issue. (4h)
3.3 Publish logs for first batch of channels. (4h)
4. Thursday 03/19
4.1 Daily Writing Exercise (Publish) (2.5h)
4.2 Create a function for checking if a channel on a network has been successfully logged for 2 weeks. (4h)
4.3 Organize next batches of channels to log (4h)
5. Friday 03/20
5.1 Daily Writing Exercise (Outline) (2.5h)
5.2 Spanish Class (2h)
5.3 Message Panama Lawyers / Move around heathen money (1h)
5.4 Open BAC account / Grocery Shopping (4h)
6. Saturday 03/21
6.1 Daily Writing Exercise (Publish) (1.5h)
6.2 Plan and review for next week (4h)
6.3 Read perseus version of Aristotle’s poetics(4h)
7. Sunday 03/22
7.1 Daily Writing Exercise (Outline) (1.5h)
7.2 Open Slot / Makeups (5h)
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WH Week 21, 22 Review Mar 2nd – March 15th
The past two weeks have been quite the trip. I came back from having a wonderful time with my long term friends in beautiful scenic parts of Costa Rica to find MP had decided to shut down tmsr. Truthfully I felt a sensation of relief. But when I try to put away the emotions and think about the situation, I know that a great resource has been lost and my life and others’ will probably be worse for it.
Once my friends left I spent the next few days wooing a woman. While this was time consuming and sleep reducing, I could have at least squeezed in a travel article. MP’s departure has made my hallucination of freedom stronger. It will take extra will power to get back on track.
Lastly, I fell behind on the logs. I have been skimming the conversations, which is always unacceptable but especially now given the gravity of what is being discussed.
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