Required Tasks
1. #trilema catchup: 2h daily, ETA end of the week
2. Blogging: .5h planning + 1.5h writing daily (planned topics: some mixture of finishing gbw-node draft writeups; return to family topics; trip photos; #t logs)
3. gbw signer development: 10h
4. Forum interaction + misc. reading: 1-2h/day
5. Weekly review + plan (still including that missed December week!): 5h (still aiming to do Saturday!)
6. End-of-day journal: .5h/day
Looks good on screen and even doable when set like that over a whole week’s worth of time. Does it break otherwise on a day by day split or is it that you’d really focus on just one thing at a time or what happens?
Priorities-wise, it seems like the gbw development work should be the top priority this week, since it got dropped last week and otherwise you have a break from lessons delivery and similars. Also, the always optimist Robinson says you’ll finish the wallet by this months’ end, do you know that?
Do you have a clear plan for the day (as to what exactly you aim to handle that day, not as to each minute of it or other such insanity of detail) when you get started in the morning?
Comment by Diana Coman — January 20, 2020 @ 10:02 am
All but wallet development and weekly review here are for every day. I would prefer to minimize the number of things at a time to the extent possible though, as I believe there’s overhead or loss of momentum in the context switching.
An item I forgot is I’m scheduled for a Junto presentation next Tuesday evening; the planned topic is relational databases. I plan to do most of the prep for that next Monday-Tuesday, but will want to do some scouting for helpful resources this week. Taking the time to do this properly should benefit my own understanding as well; but do you think I should ask to push it back, given the unfinished priorities at present?
I did not know Robinson had that expectation re wallet. Not sure where the under-communication happened or if it’s just optimism or what but I’ll be sure to clarify with him; thanks for pointing it out.
“Do you have a clear plan for the day” – last week I had a daily priority listing for Monday-Thursday, I see I didn’t extend it once I got there and haven’t done one yet for this week. I expect being more consistent about this will be beneficial.
Comment by Jacob Welsh — January 21, 2020 @ 12:12 am
Re context switching – it depends when and how you do it really. Certainly, flickering back and forth is more waste than anything else but too much of only one thing runs after a while – after how much exactly depend on you and what you’re doing so not fixed – into some blockages and waste of its own. Those last blockages & waste are even harder to notice usually while struggling through them (that sort of time where you’d have made more progress by working for 1 day on something else rather than pushing on). So minimize but even better… organize really. Anyway, you have there mainly the gbw and otherwise the lighter read&writing tasks so it doesn’t seem all that crowded context-wise, just allowing some balance.
Re Junto presentation, if it really doesn’t cause any problem otherwise, I would say to push it back indeed because from what I saw of your working so far, you’ll end up doing that (and properly, sure) while pushing the gbw back again instead because it’s not yet burning. If you push the Junto presentation back though, do work the prep/resource scouting for it into next week’s plan or wherever appropriate (meaning most emphatically *not* the Mon/Tue for a Tue presentation!)
Robinson’s optimism is the type with roots so deep that they end up on the other side of the coin really but anyways, most likely it was something along the lines of you going “if I work 10 hours per week then it’s finished this month” and he hearing/retaining mainly the “finished this month” part.
Comment by Diana Coman — January 21, 2020 @ 9:40 am