{"id":1062,"date":"2018-09-30T23:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2021-02-24T18:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T00:26:16","slug":"update-for-9-30-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/update-for-9-30-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 9\/30\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Site<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p>Housekeeping note: My DNS issue turned out to be on my web host&#8217;s end, and they&#8217;ve fixed it. Everyone should be able to access the site now.<\/p>\n<h2>Goal map<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve created a page on the wiki for this project called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/wiki\/My_Life_Agenda\">My Life Agenda<\/a>.&#8221; So far it covers my high-level goals. This week I&#8217;ll keep working on how those are tied to my projects.<\/p>\n<h2>Business<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I finished Eric Verzuh\u2019s <em>Fast Forward MBA in Project Management<\/em>. Then to get a broader view covering business in general, I listened to Kenneth Eades et al\u2019s <em>The Portable MBA<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>These are the first steps in an experiment where I see if I can treat my life like a business. Now why would I do this? Have my priorities been scrambled so money landed at the top? No. It&#8217;s the result of a few trends in my life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In recent years I&#8217;ve come to see that business isn&#8217;t all about money. It&#8217;s largely about pursuing goals, and this is a concern I share. I spend a lot of time thinking about it.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve learned the value of procedures for achieving a consistent and high-quality result with less effort. Business offers a lot of procedures for various aspects of goal pursuit.<\/li>\n<li>I like to get the real story on whatever topic I&#8217;m investigating. That is, the most in-depth and professional treatment of the subject. My understanding of what that looks like in different areas is always growing, and I&#8217;ve found that in the realm of goal pursuit, business is where a lot of the serious thinking is done.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I want to try using the insights and tools of business to manage my pursuit of goals in all areas of my life.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Portable MBA<\/em> has given me a sweeping overview of all sides of business. Once I have that content clear in my mind, I can decide which areas to study in more detail and in what order. But since a lot of my life revolves around projects, I already know project management will be first. Hence the Eric Vorzuh book.<\/p>\n<p>But all of that will come after I\u2019m further along on my goal map.<\/p>\n<h2>Audiobooks<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p>With my new attention to project management, I\u2019m reworking how I approach my book listening. Some of my listening is meant to feed into a project, and I want to shorten the gap between finishing the book and using it. So instead of speeding through books for several different projects, I&#8217;ll listen to whatever&#8217;s relevant to the current project, and then while I&#8217;m working on the project, I&#8217;ll listen to books I don&#8217;t need to study. Maybe that means I&#8217;ll get through my mile-long fiction list.<\/p>\n<h2>Music<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>My exercises from <em>Composing Music: A New Approach<\/em> are more understandable now. I&#8217;ve posted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/wiki\/Exercises_from_Composing_Music:_A_New_Approach\">general rules<\/a> and the rules for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/wiki\/Exercises_from_Composing_Music:_A_New_Approach\/Chapter_1\">three exercises I&#8217;ve done<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be posting more rules and other details this week. Hopefully I&#8217;ll do some more exercises too. I need to catch up with my <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1dF3AU1fM9JQeEPWSEm_SYYnt6PXUdcEF43ciyi4m5VU\/edit?usp=sharing\">schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site \ud83d\ude10 Housekeeping note: My DNS issue turned out to be on my web host&#8217;s end, and they&#8217;ve fixed it. Everyone should be able to access the site now. Goal map \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ve created a page on the wiki for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/update-for-9-30-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,190,189,207,54,12,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-business","category-goal-map","category-music-composition","category-projects","category-site_updates","category-weeknotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}