Young Hands Club

1. Things my Master assigned me:

1. New directions for the OS. Right now I don’t have a clear task apart from think, ask, converse write.
2. (5h) Work through the fabled outlines article backlog. 2.3 has been on the list for months and an article on the centralization of the transaction clearing system. (Time Permitting)

2. Things I want feedback on/help with

1. (2h) Draft of Bitcoin history 2009-2011 article Deadline : Thursday 19:00 UTC.
2. (5h) JWRD sales article. Deadline : Tuesday 19:00 UTC
3. Our approach to more general software consulting.

3. Anything else that takes up a significant amount of your time.

1. (35h) JWRD
1. Tuesday I have a call with a Financial Advisory that is transitioning its back office from a third party to in house. The say security is a priority, but what they deem practical for the business is not yet clear. My aim is for lifetime support.
2. Deals have been delayed due to virus and market panics. Keep growing and pushing the pipeline.
3. Improve Sales Materials : update sales presentation, publish a sales focused article for dorion-mode.
4. Continue building out list of local private bankers and asset managers to contact.
5. The local government that came to power last year is pushing a technology centered agenda. Work on inserting ourselves there.
2. Dorion Mode
1. (5h) There is nothing new in the world apart from the history you didn’t know. Friday should be achievable for publishing Part 1.
3. (15h) Following the forum and conversing when it’s my time. I’m planning to block off 14:00-15:30 and 19:00-20:30 UTC to properly eat and engage the logs and blogs.
4. (2.5h) ((15 mins in morning, 30 mins before sleep)) Daily Review/Preview to start up, wind down day. Publish Review as Comment on Plan by 21:30 Panama time (UTC -5).
5. (2h) Weekly review/preview. Deadline Friday March 20th, 23:00 UTC
6. (5h 15m) 45 minutes of exercise each morning.
7. (5h 50m) 20 min Spanish, 30 min French while I lunch.

Summary

With the OS taking several steps back, JWRD is the top priority. We have a couple deals in play we need to close. I also have to bring new deals to the table. The OS is important, my plan at present is to see what comes of the conversations this weekend and readjust. It felt good to write the Dorion Mode article yesterday, keep writing about my history.

While there was already a lot on my shoulders to start this week, the burden was substantially increased by the historic events. The closure of TMSR is the toughest situation I’ve been confronted with. In my 30 years, I’ve shed a lot of previously held beliefs which ultimately lead me to TMSR. No one can know what could’ve been if I registered and committed earlier or if I acted with more integrity while engaged with what was TMSR. I’m not going to hold any regrets, but I must learn as fast as possible from both the good and the bad and shed whatever I’ve let remain that’s holding me back.

Can I be honest and present with myself and those I hold dear ? Of course I can, why couldn’t I ?

It’s going to take time and it’s going to be hard, but doing the things that produce success is easier than being unsuccessful.

Growth questions to further reflect on the week :

1. What did I spend my time on?

I spent my time on publishing the draft of the TMSR OS dependency list, JWRD pipeline, engaging the forum, a networking event Tuesday, Junto Wednesday. My plan from last week shows I let myself fail with the daily reviews.

2. Where did I ask smart questions? Where could/should I have asked *more* questions?

I engaged trinque about TMSR OS.
I asked questions in #o about my role in the closure, what makes culture come to be, if s.mg will be continuing.

I have questions to follow up with on yesterday’s thread.

3. Where did I deliver on my word and where did I fail to deliver? What did I do to mitigate the fail and what do I need to do + who do I need to talk to tomorrow to sort the fail(s) out?

I did publish the TMSR OS dependency list, though 3 days late from the already delayed deadline.
I asked MP about OTC.

I regressed and only had 2 days of review on the week.

The only thing I’ve done to mitigate the failure is make this review my top priority today so I’m not letting it linger into the evening as has been a bad habit that needs to be replaced.

4. What are the priorities for tomorrow?

My priority for the remainder of the day is to meet with Jacob, talk in #o and sort out my plan for next week and beyond.

5. How can I better use my available resources ?

I can follow through on blocking off my morning to focus on my top priority for the day prior to paying the outside world mind.

6. What should I do *differently* for better results tomorrow ?

Live the Page Boy’s Pledge.

Learn to embrace and enjoy the horror because on the horror was put into in my head by those who were afraid of my potential and other side of it is being. To let the horror win is nonexistence. I’m going to die anyways, so why not live ?

A quote from Benjamin Franklin I read today, “Pitch upon that course of life which is most excellent, and custom will make it the most delightful.”

1. Things my Master assigned me:

1. Draft of TMSR OS dependencies page. (AAC) Deadline : Saturday, March 7th.
2. (5h) Work through the fabled outlines article backlog. 2.3 has been on the list for months and an article on the centralization of the transaction clearing system. (Time Permitting)

2. Things I want feedback on/help with

1. (2h) Draft of Bitcoin history 2009-2011 article Deadline : Sunday 19:00 UTC.
2. Ask about OTC and our approach to the more general consulting.

3. Anything else that takes up a significant amount of your time.

1. (10h) TMSR OS
1. Follow up Jacob’s messages to the musl list with a couple points that occurred to me from reading the interaction.
2. What questions do I have about the clearsigning scheme for V patches ?
3. At least one comment per day published upon reading/re-reading archives of The Tar Pit, BVT Trace, and Fixpoint.
2. Dorion Mode
1. (5h) There is nothing new in the world apart from the history you didn’t know. Friday should be achievable for publishing Part 1.
2. (5h) The benefits of TMSR OS. Chip away likewise.
3. (15h) JWRD
1. Top priority is closing the sale on the table and acquiring and preparing the hardware for delivery.
2. Improve Sales Materials : update sales presentation, start drafting a sales focused article for dorion-mode.
3. Research to build out list of local private bankers and asset managers to contact.
4. (2h) Business networking event Tuesday night, publish review of day prior to leaving for event.
5. (4h) Junto on Wednesday night.
6. (15h) Following the forum and conversing when it’s my time. I’m planning to block off 14:00-15:30 and 19:00-20:30 UTC to properly eat and engage the logs and blogs.
7. (2.5h) ((15 mins in morning, 30 mins before sleep)) Daily Review/Preview to start up, wind down day. Publish Review as Comment on Plan by 21:30 Panama time (UTC -5).
8. (2h) Weekly review/preview. Deadline Friday March 13th, 23:00 UTC
9. (5h 15m) 45 minutes of exercise each morning.
10. (5h 50m) 20 min Spanish, 30 min French while I lunch.

Summary

Be boring yet effective. One day at a time. Write more and ask more, let people help you. Take actual control of your time. At the beginning of the day, think about how you want to answer the growth questions at days end.

Adding the growth questions into the daily review was a change for the positive. It both gave me a closer look at myself more regularly and helped Diana Coman help me. I found the questions thorough enough for quality reflection, but not too burdensome. Though I missed my deadlines and let myself get into an unsustainable sleep schedule, I delivered the daily review all five days.

I got a proposal out to a client who has said he wants to start our training program this month and made progress on abstracting it to make the sales process more efficient. I also moved some other sales forward, but need to expand the breadth of the pipeline in the coming weeks.

I was gifted some insight from MP regarding keeping what people say in the proper perspective, i.e. let them talk and keep doing what you’re doing until you see them executing. I have had the tendency in the past to put too much value in what others say and count chickens before they’ve hatched. The deeper problem is that I’ve also let the talking but not delivering affect me as these pages well document a split between saying and doing. That split is being cured by being more aware through recording, reviewing, sharing, getting feedback and making adjustments.

I published the TMSR OS statement and received feedback on our approach to providing group classes.

I’m taking a closer look at how I set priorities and became more aware that I’m letting days bleed into each other rather than starting fresh each new day. If yesterday was a success, don’t rest on your laurels ((Perhaps season your soup with them.)) and if yesterday involved failure, collect yourself, reorient, communicate and be present with the fresh slate.

I’m struggling to find the exact Drucker quote I read this week, but it was about well managed businesses being quiet and boring while poorly managed businesses are frantic. A goal for the days and weeks ahead is to be consistently boring and effective rather than living a volatile schedule caused by poor planning and communication with frantic attempts at recovery. The goals and projects on my plate are exciting enough.

I took much longer on this than normal. The first impulse was to change the structure of the plan. I relaxed that because the problem is not the structure of the plan, but how I go about making and executing it. Instead I decided to get more detailed in allocating the available time on my schedule and exploring the opportunities to consolidate some regular tasks, e.g. I’m going to try doubling up my language practice with eating.

1. Things my Master assigned me:

1. Draft of TMSR OS dependencies page. (AAC) Deadline : Wednesday, March 4th. ((I’ve been making this bigger than it needs to be, better to start small and publish already.))
2. (5h) Work through the fabled outlines article backlog. 2.3 has been on the list for months. (Time Permitting)

2. Things I want feedback on/help with

1. (2h) Draft of Bitcoin history 2009-2011 article Deadline : Thursday 19:00 UTC.

3. Anything else that takes up a significant amount of your time.

1. (10h) TMSR OS
1. February Report (AAC) Deadline: Wednesday, March 4, 23:00 UTC.
2. Follow up Jacob’s messages to the musl list with a couple points that occurred to me from reading the interaction.
3. What questions do I have about the clearsigning scheme for V patches ?
4. At least one comment per day published upon reading/re-reading archives of The Tar Pit, BVT Trace, and Fixpoint.
2. Dorion Mode
1. (5h) There is nothing new in the world apart from the history you didn’t know. Friday should be achievable for publishing Part 1.
2. (5h) The benefits of TMSR OS. Chip away likewise.
3. (15h) JWRD
1. Top priority is closing the sale on the table and acquiring and preparing the hardware for delivery.
2. Improve Sales Materials : update sales presentation, start drafting a sales focused article for dorion-mode.
3. Research to build out list of local private bankers and asset managers to contact.
4. (2h) Business networking event Wednesday night, publish review of day prior to leaving for event.
5. (15h) Following the forum and conversing when it’s my time. I’m planning to block off 14:00-15:30 and 19:00-20:30 UTC to properly eat and engage the logs and blogs.
6. (2.5h) ((15 mins in morning, 15 mins before sleep)) Daily Review/Preview to start up, wind down day. Publish Review as Comment on Plan by 21:30 Panama time (UTC -5).
7. (2h) Weekly review/preview. Deadline Friday, March 6, 23:00 UTC
8. (5h 15m) 45 minutes of exercise each morning.
9. (5h 50m) 20 min Spanish, 30 min French while I lunch.

Summary

I felt a bit overwhelmed by my backlog, which is proper given how I’ve let it grow. It didn’t accumulate in a week and it’s not going to get processed in a week. It’ll get processed putting in one solid hour at a time, knowing my role and using the available resources. This week the focus in on improving my process, being more present, abiding the Page Boy’s pledge and transmuting my competitive aggression/assertiveness from athletics to the present to man up already.

I technically missed all my deadlines this week and only delivered a few of my deliverables : the outline on Tuesday (~25 mins late), WoT ratings (5 days late, dropped silently twice, the second after pm probing), updates on Wednesday for Monday and Tuesday ((after public probing and ffs, I’m only realizing now those were on last week’s plan. Derp)) and Wednesday after midnight. I allowed all the other deliverables on the plan fall by the wayside.

On the plus side, we have a request for a quote for our hardware, software and training package from the COO of the project with local presence that’s attempting to make a decentralized exchange. While a bit daunting, the placement test Jacob made was useful in verifying he has some Unix experience and won’t need to start from square one.

As far as a good match for us, there’s a bit of misalignment between his goal for project which is to bring ‘crypto’ to retail and our focus on the elite. Furthermore, they have a bit of a technology maximalist approach, i.e. bring in XYZ complex tool off the shelf instead of designing and implementing fits in head and hand. On the more positive side, based on what he has told us, he made a career from designing and implementing HFT systems for a wide range of fiat exchanges and instruments. He told us at one point he was paying $20k/month for leased lines.

With that being said, the approach Jacob and I have discussed is to deliver on our training ((Which will allow us to refine our processes further.)), generate the cashflow and develop the relationship. This should put us in a better position to a) receive referrals from him and b) show him why our approach, e.g. focus on elite clientele and Bitcoin, is more realistic. There’s also the possibility for further consulting work for his project, but it’s too early to tell if it’ll be a good fit, e.g. builds for various shitlangs would have to be done for Gales Linux for them to use it in a wider capacity. Them using Gales Linux isn’t the only thing that could be done with them, but it’s the main part we discussed.

Other positives were my Master’s help with showing us further how we sell ourselves short, causing us to rethink our approach in asserting our value in dealing with people. We also further developed a set of questions for information security auditing we can approach companies with as a secondary offering to generate cashflow and develop relationships by meeting companies more where they are now rather than where we think they ought to be.

As far as actually making my deadlines next week, it’s clear some substantial changes need to be made. I added the week to the title to help raise my awareness and appreciation for time. Back in November I was reading the Page Boy’s Pledge daily, so I’ll pick that back up again to start the day and, more importantly, act it out. The daily review has been a good anchor, how can I make it better ? First, 21:30 local time is a healthier deadline. The late timestamps on my communications these past weeks/months are not the rhythm I want, so stop pretending midnight is on the table. If I don’t like what the review says minutes before the deadline, tough, be honest with the dislike and understand why it happened and do better tomorrow. To set myself up better, instead of a blank page at the end of the day, answer the following questions :

1. Am I proud of my effort today ?
2. How well did I track my time ?
3. Did I exercise my curiosity and ask smart questions ?
4. How well did I deliver on my word ?
5. What do I need to do and who do I need to talk to tomorrow to repair my word ?
6. How can I better use my available resources ?
7. What can I do to improve by 1% tomorrow ?