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Weeknote for 7/21/2024

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 😎 I’m getting an early start on my personal Kanban system. Since my new motivation to keep a schedule is still alive, I’ve had some extra time in the morning for side projects, so I’ve been spending it on … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 7/14/2024

Posted on July 16, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 🙂 Inspired by another listen to David Anderson’s book Kanban, I worked on making my evening schedule more consistent. The exploratory, knowledge-centered projects I’m involved with are more complex and variable than the manufacturing assembly lines addressed by The … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 7/7/2024

Posted on July 9, 2024 by Andy

Learning 🙂 I continued my mnemonic language setup with notes on the scope and characteristics of the language. Some key characteristics: The language is a mental one used for communicating with oneself, so its expression in English is a transliteration. … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 6/30/2024

Posted on July 6, 2024 by Andy

Learning 🙂 I outlined some preliminary topics for setting up my mnemonic language and wrote some notes on my rationale for the project. The key argument is that learning a consistent vocabulary and rule set for the system would keep … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 6/23/2024

Posted on June 28, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 😌 My productivity finally climbed back to an almost normal level thanks to getting more sleep. Either that or my brain decided two months was a long enough break. It’s a relief to feel like my new old self … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 6/16/2024

Posted on June 24, 2024 by Andy

Productivity 😌 I got tired of my tiredness and prioritized sleep. This is part of an approach of trying to aim my activities at key tasks in my schedule rather than simply focusing on each one as if it were … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 6/9/2024

Posted on June 18, 2024 by Andy

Learning 🤓 I filled in my linguistics knowledge with Essentials of Linguistics and “Introduction to Lexicography for FieldWorks Language Explorer.” These helped me contemplate the features of my mnemonic language. Nature 🙂 I set up a tentative sequence for rotating … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 6/2/2024

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Andy

Learning 🤔 I collected more miscellaneous ideas and resources for my memory system. I found out interpreters have a visual note-taking approach similar to sketchnotes to give them a basis for translating a speech, which I could use as another … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 5/26/2024

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Andy

Learning 🤯 I had the epiphany that my memory system should be a language. Reading about the grammar of American Sign Language in the Gallaudet dictionary made me realize that memory techniques sort of have a grammar too as well … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 5/19/2024

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Andy

Learning 🤓 I took my mnemonic wanderings in new directions—poetry and movement—while continuing my experiments with narrative. I finished listening to Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers, transcriptions of lectures by Marcel Jousse introducing his groundbreaking work from the 1930s on the … Continue reading →