The draft plan of action for Qntra appears to have stablized. Despite the local civil registery exploding well outside its budgeted time in terms of hours and crossing several days, the pressure that put on the time budget has made me reflect on how much time I sink into undirected reading. Reading to search for things Qntra can scoop is one thing, reading to keep up with what is happening in the Republic is another, but quite a bit of reading time’s gone into dead lines of inquiry. I’ve got to cut those loose early, as tempting as they may be with the fiat system starting to take some serious hits from the world. Looking for things when they aren’t yet happening isn’t going to make them happen faster.
On the other hand, putting bonus kilometers on the feets’ odometer walking the return trip from the other side of the city after banging head against the bureaucratic wall until it yielded seems to have been a net positive. The exhaustion that stuck near the end of last week didn’t this week, and getting the blood moving earlier in the day as opposed to later is looking like something to try on the way to getting more and better, productive desk hours.
Some progress has been made on the crawler. Code is in place to get it to cast a wide discovery net. I still did not get AWstats setup and Qntra moved.
More of this week’s plan survived to execution. On to the next one.
Qntra Activity
This week
- Myself (7): Bitstamp Plays With Novelty Segwit Only Bech32 Addresses, Cheap USD: USG “Open Market Committee” Announces Emergency Interest Rate Cut, Largest Since 2008, Intel CFO Concedes Competitors Will Maintain Process Node Lead For At Least Two More Years, Some CIA Passwords Unveiled At Trial: 123ABCdef and mysweetsummer, IRCG’s Hossein Salami Publicly States Possibility of Cornonavirus Being US Bioweapon Attack As Much Of Iran’s Government Afflicted, Lebanon’s Diab Announces Default On Eurobond Debt, Oil Futures Crash As Asian Markets Open For The Week With Russia And OPEC Declining To Agree To Production Cuts
- thimbronion (2): Control Of “Steem” Altcoin Network Successfully Sold Despite Challenger, University Of Tennessee Knoxville Professor To Prison For Simultaneous Affiliations
- 1 Comment
Last Week
- Myself (6): Austria Ends Passenger Rail Service To And From Italy As Novel Coronavirus Panic Continues To Spread, Dow Drops 3.56% S&P 500 Down 3.35% And Nasdaq Down 3.71%, Man Arrested After Failing To Destroy Motor Vehicle In Pentagon Parking Lot, Spike In US Population Of Illegal Indian Migrants, US Stock Indexes Take Worst Weekly Losses Since 2008, Madam Secretary Pompeo Oversees USG Surrender To Taliban, Qntra (S.QNTR) February 2020 Report
- thimbronion (2): Trace Mayer Pumps DorkCoin At Conference, Cisco Lays Off And Pivots While Huawei Grows
- 0 Comments:
Good points on the reading and walking fronts but otherwise not a very clear (re)view of what went on and *what to change* next week so it goes better. Seriously, the whole point of a review is to find out what worked (so you can keep doing it), what didn’t (so you stop doing it) and what is somewhere in between (so you improve on it).
The Qntra review is not that helpful in that form. Make a proper table and keep track of stuff: you’ll probably want *all* contributors at any time having their own line in there and as heading a list of the *high-level* topic *areas* that you are aiming for qntra to cover (you can make it less high-level and more precise if that fits the current relatively low output/coverage, the choice of level is more to make sure the result fits on the page/can be properly seen so one doesn’t get lost needlessly in detail). So a cell will be at the intersection between a contributor and an area /comment and you get there to note how many anythings happened and overall what areas have been covered and what areas have fallen by the wayside as well as which contributors are active and which ones faded into the background. BOTH of those are *signals* for you to *act* on – you have to manage your contributors essentially and you have to manage qntra’s coverage if you want it to get close to any target. Neither will happen on their own/on contributors’ own steam or whatever, there’s clearly not the people for that around, what can I say more.
If one week is too short an interval for that, go with 2 weeks or 1 month, but do this properly + regularly and ACT on what it says, promptly.
Comment by Diana Coman — March 9, 2020 @ 7:53 am
Thank you. This review I forgot to load the questions and consult them as I was writing this week’s review.
I’ll make a table.
Comment by Aaron Rogier — March 11, 2020 @ 1:26 am