The focus for plan execution this week is simply returning to normalcy after last week’s relative chaos.
Daily template
Morning (6h):
- 0.5h warmup
- 2h log + blog reading + responses, or errands
- 0.5h breakfast
- 1h reading: alternating days of discretionary vs. work and forum-related
- 2h write for blog + break
- 0.5h flex
Afternoon (5h):
- 0.5h lunch
- 2pm – 4:30pm project work + #o chat window
- 1.5h focused project work time
- .5h walk or exercise (start by 6pm)
Evening (5h):
- 2h dinner
- 1.5h flex
- 0.5h blog prep
- 0.5h journal
- 0.5h winding down
This indicates 4-6 hours for project work on typical days. Subtracting 4 for weekly review and planning and 4-6 for social time gives 18-34 in the week.
Project tasks
1. Follow up with contacts from conference.
2. Work out a way for the irc-innocent public to contact me and publish on blog. (Emails I’ve posted in the past have been jammed by spam.)
3. gbw signer development: 15h, ETA Friday.
4. musl outreach re unicode/locales: 1h.
5. Ask questions about proposed V and clearsigning changes.
6. Unix & Management training sessions, likely Saturday.
From project tasks, 4 should get high priority and be done already – it literally should take half an hour maximum, why are you avoiding it so much? Is there something still unclear about it?
Re emails and spam – tbh I haven’t had any serious spam-trouble with my email published as an image and it’s been there since ~2010 or so. That being said, I’m not sure if email is necessarily what you want in that it will eat up additional time and without clearly moving people to irc.
What are those Unix&Management training sessions at 6? Can those help as starting point to meet & filter & bring people up to speed, with irc & the WoT as well perhaps?
Comment by Diana Coman — February 17, 2020 @ 9:36 am
Well, delivering stern republican messages to substantially more seasoned engineers about how a big part of their strategy is retarded is a big step for me, psychologically at least. Anyway, I’m past the avoidance now.
Good to know re email, and yeah, I’d rather not encourage it.
> What are those Unix&Management training sessions at 6?
It’s a one-on-one (well, two) thing with a friend who’s been going through our Unix training at a slower pace (about twice a month currently) and in return pushing us along from his management and sales experience.
Comment by Jacob Welsh — February 18, 2020 @ 5:08 pm