I’ve enjoyed writing the new EOD reports. The benefit of listing something good for the day is it makes me think throughout the day: what can I do to gain a small victory that I would not have done otherwise.
A list of summaries of the advice I gave to myself:
1. Turn off heathen comms in the morning.
2. Learn command line tools while working in saltmines.
3. Keep updated TODO list in plan for the week (I did a poor job of this.)
4. Dedicate 15 mins to miscellaneous tasks.
5. Correctly write what needs to be done for a task (wrong: Fix AC right: Schedule AC Appointment)
6. Create a list of options for next potential jobs / ways to get cash.
7. Use tired time to snipe a few easy tasks rather than fumbling on a hard one or doing nothing.
8. Constantly make permanent fixes while using new comp.
9. Use republican tools (and sign them!)
10. Do not use computer before going to sleep – read some Aristotle instead.
11. Focus again on proper outlining. Research a topic and make sure that I have the right perspective I want to take before I commit to putting my thoughts into words. (Not from an EOD report, but an important piece of advice.)
12. Carefully choose words while writing, watch out for accidental use of homophones.
13. Review plan for day in the morning.
Although planned, I did not get to writing a command to see what channels TheFleet is currently connected to. This feature should not be too complicated now that I am running the bots in one sbcl process. I should be able to start the program within the slime repl in a tmux session. So to view the state of my program (including what channels I’m connected to) I can just ssh back into my VM and reattach to the session. I managed to squeeze in this task today.
I did not complete the task of writing a script / curl command that uploads a file into a wordpress draft. This may be worth continuing because others may want this script as well.
This week I was in a much better mood than last week although that may be in part because I spent more hours hedonistically. The car gives a lot more freedom, which feels great but opens up more opportunities to waste time. Also, the waves were excellent the past few days and I put in roughly 15 hours surfing. I need to be cautious to not let my realized higher comfort level lead to derealization.
Heh, the highs of a new toy – for as long as they last. Do enjoy what you have in the moment too, certainly, just don’t overdo it and balance it with the longer term enjoyment that comes with a bit more planning, setting yourself up and work. Seriously, work and enjoyment are not mutually exclusive, quite on the contrary!
Comment by Diana Coman — February 17, 2020 @ 9:52 am