Young Hands Club

Tasks

Qntra Management

1. Unload planning the plan and get to implementing the plan
2. Start looking at the Qntra masterplan everyday and make sure something gets worked on each day
3. Work towards completing implementation of the crawler. Work on filters for discarding useless urls from the crawler’s discoveries
4. Get AWstats set up so measurements are possible. Feed it Qntra’s log from the ‘anyserver’ liferaft.
5. Attend to responsibilities in #ossasepia and #trilema

Qntra Editor In Chiefing

1. Read, edit, and publish Qntra submissions as they come in.
2. Follow up and publish on intersting leads coming across the desk.
3. Continue to help guide Qntra short course student
4. Attend to the budding workshop in #agriculturalsupremacy
5. Get a start on some outreach

Personal Management

1. Take better notes throughout the day, review them at the end of each day aiming to better control what time gets spent on
2. Wednesday renew local ID
3. Friday Afternoon Spanish Class
4. Sunday review the week and plan the next
5. Get the blog moving again, even if a bit

Time Budget

• Monday – Qntra Management tasks 3h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2.5h, Personal Management Tasks 1h
• Tuesday – Qntra Management tasks 3h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2.5h, Personal Management Tasks 2h
• Wednesday – Qntra Management tasks 2h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2h, Personal Management Tasks 5h
• Thursday – Qntra Management tasks 3h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2.5h, Personal Management Tasks 1h
• Friday – Qntra Management tasks 2h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2h, Personal Management Tasks 3h
• Saturday – Qntra Management tasks 2h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2h, Personal Management Tasks 3h, Set things down for Review
• Sunday – Qntra Management tasks 1h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2h, Personal Management Tasks 4h, Focus on review and planning the next week

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
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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
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Tasks

Qntra Management

1. Continue the interative plan drafting process to completion and pivot to implementing the plans
2. Work towards completing implementation of the crawler. Make the shell’s builtins work for me to get iterated curls over a list of urls working.
3. Get AWstats set up so measurements are possible. Feed it Qntra’s log from the ‘anyserver’ liferaft. Target Saturday
4. Attend to responsibilities in #ossasepia and #trilema

Qntra Editor In Chiefing

1. Read, edit, and publish Qntra submissions as they come in.
2. Follow up and publish on intersting leads coming across the desk.
3. Assign and grade coursework for Qntra short course student
4. Attend to the budding Workshop

Personal Management

1. Take notes throughout the day and review them at the end of each day
2. Tuesday Afternoon errands in Ciudad Vieja and Cordon
3. Friday Afternoon Spanish Class
4. Sunday review the week and plan the next

Time Budget

Except as noted these figures as being allocated as minimums. I expect to go over most days, but recognizing that not all waking hours are equal and the editing tasks demand some interruptibility, I have to make sure everything gets attention.

1. Monday – Qntra Management tasks 3h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2.5h, Personal Management Tasks 1h
2. Tuesday – Qntra Management tasks 2h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2h, Personal Management Tasks 6h ((Pessimistic estimate due to visiting a new office. ))
3. Wednesday – Qntra Management tasks 3h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2.5h, Personal Management Tasks 1.5h
4. Thursday – Qntra Management tasks 3h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2.5h, Personal Management Tasks 1h
5. Friday – Qntra Management tasks 2h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2h, Personal Management Tasks 3h
6. Saturday – Qntra Management tasks 4h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2h, Personal Management Tasks 1.5h
7. Sunday – Qntra Management tasks 1h, Qntra Editor Tasks 2h, Personal Management Tasks 4h

Top Priority – Shift from planning to implementation
Special Attention – Improving the balance of time spent on different areas of responsibility, keeping myself open to improvement anywhere it is needed.

This week the examination and reflection were cranked up. Contrary to the plan I had initially drafted for the week, drafting and drafting again a comprehensive plan of action for Qntra came to dominate the week. This makes the week’s expenditure of time difficult to project forward from, but the reboot of Qntra operations emerging from the planning process is making it clear that future weeks won’t look like they did before this week either.

Of the tasks I had laid out in the plan I managed to complete several drafts without yet producing one ready to label final, I managed to take some notes through the day, ((The big observation is that without having started the week with a concrete time budget, I let the drafting of plans displace many other things. A smaller observation is that Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I had been finding myself getting exhausted disappointingly early suggesting that in budgeting time I can’t weigh all potentially productive hours equally. )) reviewed and delivered feedback on homework I assigned as part of the Qntra course consuming a bit more than two hours in doing so, handled Qntra submissions as they came in though I have one lead that’s drawn me into extended reading to address in my role as writer of last resort, attended Spanish Class, and begun reviewing this week and preparing plans for the next.

The growth of the scope of the planning displaced completing the portion I wanted to though I have a better handle on the shell’s builtin flow control tools to bring to the task, the errands I had scheduled for Thursday afternoon, and the Saturday block of time I had anticipated using to get AWstats to eat Qntra’s access.log. As disappointing as these misses could be, they highlight for me the necessity of opening absolutely everything I had been doing up to re-examination. The planning process for Qntra going forward has made clear that the project isn’t just some tweaks or a small shift in direction, it is a reboot of everything operations side while preserving the high quality of reporting. More importantly, I can see the necessity and that the only space for upside is in this structured, practical approach to reorganizing myself.

Reviewing this past week I found myself recieving more questions than I asked myself, and I’m grateful for it. What motivates me to do Qntra and attracts me to the Republic is a hatred towards the Pantsuitist system I grew up in. The US “higher ed” chumpatron chewed me up and I’m still very sore about that. However uncomfortable and unfamiliar these practical, structured methods I’m being shown may strike me on the first impression, I am grateful for Diana Coman’s attention in offering her time and attention to expose me to them. I am grateful for getting called out when I fall into the monkey habit of throwing shit to see what might stick to the problem in front of me.

For this coming week I’ve got to take this clarity, and actually budget my time like the scarce thing it is. I need to keep myself open to learning, remember the hate that motivates me, and ready myself to just fetch the damned arms when called to do so.

Concrete Tasks To Do:

1. Work towards completing implementation of the crawler. Complete, at a minimum, repeated calls to curl for text file full of urls such that I understand what exactly the computer is doing when executing my instructions. If stumped, isolate what’s stumping me to the point I can ask intelligent questions about it.
2. Complete a draft of short, medium, and long term plans for Qntra. Submit it for review, and work the iterative learning process towards learning how to plan.
3. Take notes as the day does on, review them before ending the day.
4. Review thimbronion’s homework assignment when he submits it. See what gems he may have found on the Chinese California beat that is swiftly becoming his.
5. Read, edit, and publish Qntra submissions as they come in.
6. Run some local errands in Ciudad Vieja and Cordon Thursday afternoon.
7. Attend Friday afternoon Spanish Class.
8. Saturday work on getting Qntra’s access.log processed through an AWstats. If this goes smoothly, move Qntra off the lifeboat server and on to its own box with AWstats.
9. Sunday, review the week and publish new plans for the week to come informed by the review.
10. Get back in the writing for Qntra saddle without letting writing for Qntra distract from the other attention Qntra needs from me.