diana_coman: whaack: at some point you’ll have to review those plans too overall, in one of the weekly reviews, it’s not *all* just “how I changed”.
For this week’s review instead of writing how I changed, I have reviewed the outcomes of the plans I had for the week with the goal of figuring out why problems occurred and how to go about changing myself in the future. I review 4 separate points that descend in order of importance. The first 3 review identified problems that have been discussed with diana_coman, and the 4th point is a review of the work I did with trinque’s published sources.
The 1st point to address is my overall lackluster carpe diem. This week and every week since I started my daily schedule I’ve planned out 8-9 hours of the day, but there are 16 available. Some of the spare time is spent productively: reading logs, reading blogs, responding and making comments, making phone calls to follow up on orders, etc. Except there is also non-negligible time spent spinning / participating in avoidance behavior. When I do something mundane like getting up to fill a glass of water, I often get the sense that I am doing this to avoid work rather than to quench my thirst. To fix this general problem I see a few paths I need to take. First, is I need to plan out my day a little bit more. I don’t think it is right to plan for the full 16 hours, but a 12 hour schedule seems doable. I have also been assigned to list what is eating my days. The next way I can improve is I can get a wrist watch with a timer feature and keep a hand written log of my activities + the time it took me to do them.
The 2nd point to address is the writing problem. I planned 12 hours to writing my rereading article, and wound up spending about 13 hours. While I’m happy I did not let the time spent writing overflow into all my other tasks for the week as I did with my article on meeting up with Adam, I was quite unsatisfied with the result. I discussed briefly this morning why I thought the article came out poorly. diana_coman said I am spending too much time worrying what to write about. I agree. To fix this problem going forward diana_coman has assigned me a daily writing exercise.
The 3rd point to address is saltmines being the focus of my week. As discussed with diana_coman, the only task I consistently reserve a large block of time for in my weekly plan is my day job. And this week I dedicated an extra 4-5 hours to saltmines ontop of my usual 20 hours. ((This was not because I had a surge of passion for my saltmines work, but rather for an opposite reason. I let teenager concerns distract me, and I thought it’d be better to knock out some saltmines hours while I’m not focused than to work on something I cared about while my mind was wandering. This was a bad idea, because my mind wandered more since I was doing something I saw as unimportant.)) To address the problem of saltmines being the meat of my week, I am doing two things. First, I am reducing my saltmine hours to 16 from 20. Second, I am going to plan other work for the morning/evenings of saltmine days. ((This is in line with the solution to the problem in point 1))
The 4th point to address is the work I did with setting up trinque’s src. My original plan was to write a rough draft of an article on setting up logbot. However I only found time to get the bot setup on my local machine + hand write a list of notes along the way. There was a little bit of uncertainty as I was deciding what to do while getting acquainted with trinque’s code. Part of me thinks, and still thinks, that I should not have even ran the code until I had read a book on CLOS, read every line of code + looked up all functions I didn’t know, and figured out CL’s restart tool. ((If I commit fully to this idea I would need to also read about keccak and jfw’s source before using his keksum tool.)) However I wanted to have something concrete accomplished, so I only skimmed the parts of the code I needed to know to get the bot running. This is an area where I am not sure exactly where to go next, and could use some help. I have asked trinque for guidance in #trinque.
(( 0. Sunday 12/08
0.1 Rough draft of an article on re-reading is the most powerful tool (4h)
whaack: diana_coman: EOD Report: Nothing to add other than the progress on the re-reading article this morning.
1. Monday 12/09
1.1 Saltmines (8h)
whaack: diana_coman: EOD Report: I logged 11h of saltmines today. As of now I plan to get in a few extra hours of saltmines this week, and then use those hours to work fewer hours next week.
2. Tuesday 12/10
2.1 Saltmines (8h)
whaack: diana_coman: EOD Report : Today was not that successful. I got 9.5 hours of saltmines done, but almost nothing else.
3. Wednesday 12/11
3.1 Saltmines (4h)
3.2 Trip to Santa Cruz to open bank account, get more house supplies, etc. (6h)
whaack: diana_coman: EOD Report: I did 4hr of saltmines and did a trip to town where I got a multimeter, a mosquito net, groceries for the week, and opened a local bank account (I have to return to town on Friday though to pick up the debit card, I will adjust my schedule tomorrow morning.) I did 1hr 45mins of Spanish study tonight as well.
4. Thursday 12/12
4.1 Trilema rereading article rough draft (4h)
4.2 The Odyssey reading block (2h) (1h)
4.3 Read about computer assembly + prepare boot stick (2h)
4.4 Read trinque’s irc-bot source (3h)
whaack: diana_coman: EOD Report: I did ~2hrs of Spanish study, did an unexpected bit of saltmines (~30min), finished a rough draft of the rereading article ~4h, and got trinque’s irc ping-pong bot connected ~4h. There was a chunk of time I burned trying to set up keccak on my local machine so that I could press the vpatches correctly. I got stuck on setting up gprbuild. I think I may try to use jfw’s keksum, but if that doesn’t work I don’
whaack: t know it’s worth figuring out what’s wrong on my osx 10.9 as I should have my new computer anyways soon. Reading through trinque’s code and playing around with it, I see there are a few topics I need to go over: CLOS, threading with CL and slime, and CL’s exception handling tool/restarts.
whaack: I believe I was more focused today. I had some time where I wasn’t working though: an interruption for ~40 mins when a surfpal stopped by, and I played guitar for another ~20 mins at sunset.
5. Friday 12/13
5.1 Trilema rereading article final draft (4h)
5.2 The Odyssey reading block (1h)
5.3 Read about computer assembly + prepare boot stick (2h)
5.4 Trip to town to pick up debit card. (5h)
5.5 Draft article of setting up trinque’s irc-bot (2h)
whaack: diana_coman: EOD Report: I published my re-reading article ~5h, setup jfw’s keksum ~35min, pressed the vpatches on trinque’s page ~1hr (this had a few bumps along the way. for ex: some of the vpatches used keccak for the hashes in the vdiff and others sha512sum. i was using a slightly modified v.pl v99993 which i needed to find out how to further tweak to deal with keksum only having one space between the hash and the filename in t
whaack: he output.) I got trinque’s logbot (different than ircbot) running with a local postgres db ~2h. — All the time estimates are fairly rough. I do not have a draft of an article for setting up logbot as per my original plan, instead I have just a few hand written notes. There was some spinning today, but not an extensive amount. I spent ~1h chopping vegetables into zip lock bags to save time cooking for the next few days. I also had
whaack: a neighbor over for ~45mins in the evening.
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