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Weeknote for 9/17/2023

Productivity ๐Ÿ™‚ I returned to my mini-Pomodoro timer at workโ€”4 minutes of work and 1 minute of break. It sounds ridiculous, but for the most part it keeps my time organized. Itโ€™s enabling me to pay some attention to side … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 6/4/2023

Housekeeping ๐Ÿ˜ I made general plans for the seasonal housekeeping project and planned some purchases. Part of my procrastination on this project has been not knowing what tasks belong in it. So I gave myself some clarity on that. The … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 5/21/2023

Programming ๐Ÿ˜ I did some reading, but not much more. I have some more mental hurdles to overcome before I can make faster progress. Iโ€™ll probably extend the project again. But now itโ€™s on hold for a couple of weeks … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 4/23/2023

Programming I did nothing on the software development notes. Iโ€™d been looking forward to this project, but now that it’s here, Iโ€™m strangely unmotivated, and Iโ€™ve let other activities crowd my time. So the next step is to figure that … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 1/15/2023

Productivity ๐Ÿ™‚ I scheduled my movable personal projects around my fixed ones. My yearโ€™s plans ended up looking like this: life maintenance, programming, arts, math, and AI. Iโ€™m sure the plan will change as the year goes on. I also … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 1/1/2023

Christmas ๐Ÿ˜Œ The week of Christmas felt more normal and relaxed. By Christmas our family crises had settled, and we enjoyed our traditional Thanksgiving-Christmas dinner, a long nap, and finally in the evening, opening the tree presents. My family gave … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 11/6/2022

Christmas ๐Ÿ˜ Thanks to some turbulence in my sleep schedule and some competing activities, I didn’t get anything done on putting together my Christmas list. But interference from life is part of the reason Iโ€™ve started scheduling two weeks for … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 9/11/2022

Productivity ๐Ÿ™‚ I’m nearly done integrating the tags from the Nirvana import into my databases. Once that’s finished, I’m going to take a break from the productivity project to take care of some life maintenance tasks that’ve been piling up, … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 6/19/2022

Productivity ๐Ÿ™‚ I relieved some tension from my daily task management sessions by removing some micromanagement from the procedure. I use an interval timer to lead me through it like I do with other routines. But task management isn’t regular … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 6/5/2022

Productivity ๐Ÿ˜ I worked on my productivity framework and assessed the progress of this project. It’s taken longer than I wanted, and it seems to be a matter of interruptions, some dead-end learning experiments, random side tasks within the project, … Continue reading

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