This week saw progress in raising knowledge from implicit to explicit, in understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of V, and of the broader methodology of working things out gradually through practice and discussion.
In my seemingly ever-optimistic planning, I had given five hours for a router setup and a drive upgrade. What slipped my mind was the state of our router setup documentation, which was really more a set of exploratory notes from when I first worked it out in 2016, and hadn’t been updated for subsequent improvements. Indeed I had to give substantial further guidance “on the wing” for the process with our pilot clients. Since I now had to revisit the details again, I took the chance to substantially update the document and fill in gaps. All told this took 20 hours, which still strikes me as excessive. There were perhaps times when I wasn’t well focused and might have switched to something else, except that I really wanted to see the job to a conclusion this week.
In blogging, I got two technical articles out. There was more queued up, but, well, I guess I just wasn’t feeling the relative motivation.
One item on which I was profoundly unmotivated to move, despite augmented family prodding, was the health insurance research. Perhaps it’s that I’ve quite enjoyed the freedom from website logins and credit card payments and important policy update notifications and emailing around document scans since I dropped coverage some years ago. Still, with the notoriously costly and byzantine US healthcare system, going it alone seems a risky proposition and I should at least get some more clarity on the options.
Bedtime improved somewhat, but fitfully. There was one night I had a bit much excitement on my mind and didn’t get to sleep for a while, which then led to needing to sleep in further the following day.
As for the review, there was much less outright spinning before getting started, but some anxiety Friday evening when I had planned to do it, then Saturday following, and I chose to defer it rather than push through in that state of mind. ((As I publish, I’ve been on it for 1.7 hours; there were no changes to be made on the final read-through, which perhaps indicates I still obsess over wording on the first go rather than letting a draft be a draft.)) The daily template from my plan has continued to have little bearing on reality, so I’m thinking to retire it. At least I’ve been more regular about walk/exercise and reading so perhaps it’s served out its purpose.
I thought you meant to give the questions/questions-based review a go and see if that helps. Or do you still prefer the open-ended approach?
Not necessarily or by itself. If you have it clear enough in head, it can very well end up fine on paper in one go too so not requiring changes at review/reread time. That being said, 1.7hours is still a bit on the heavy side (though it sounds at least not terrible).
Why anxiety over it on Friday though?
Comment by Diana Coman — April 6, 2020 @ 8:06 am
I did mean to, but forgot about it until after I’d already started on this one. So I suppose I did prefer the open-ended approach but by default or habit rather than giving the alternative an earnest try.
I’m still not sure why it’s associated with anxiety, perhaps at this point it’s just an echo from previous times.
Comment by Jacob Welsh — April 7, 2020 @ 7:56 pm