{"id":1515,"date":"2021-01-18T15:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2021-01-18T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T21:05:49","slug":"weeknote-for-1-17-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/18\/weeknote-for-1-17-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 1\/17\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"playht-iframe-wrapper\" style=\"max-height: 210px !important;\">\n\t<iframe\n\tscrolling=\"no\"\n\tclass=\"playht-iframe-player\"\n\tid=\"playht-iframe-player\"\n\theight=\"90px\"\n\twidth=\"100%\"\n\tframeborder=\"0\"\n\tstyle=\"max-height: 90px; height: 90px !important;\"\n\tsrc=\"https:\/\/play.ht\/embed\/?article_url=https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1515&voice=en-GB-Wavenet-B&appId=9W3P762tsiZ6wAx&trans_id=-MRMJHs4RoP-PrMiZiRf\"\n\tdata-voice=\"en-GB-Wavenet-B\"\n\tarticle-url=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1515\"\n\tdata-appId=\"9W3P762tsiZ6wAx\"\n\tallowfullscreen=\"\">\n\t<\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Productivity<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n<p><strong>I wrestled with fatigue all week.<\/strong> Since I was determined to get my work done and not use personal time just for naps, my work days tended to stretch into the evenings, which didn&#8217;t help with my sleep schedule. This isn&#8217;t uncommon for me, but it was worse last week. I also found myself wasting hours scrolling through Google News or Twitter. It reiterated for me that social media isn&#8217;t just a matter of dopamine. Sometimes it&#8217;s all I can summon the mental energy for.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n<p><strong>I didn&#8217;t do anything with my Elastic Habits tracker.<\/strong> I&#8217;d like to finish it this week so I can move on to my finances in the next project month, which starts next week.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m trying different varieties of ground coffee.<\/strong> Not that it helps much when I&#8217;m especially tired, but about a month ago I bought a coffee maker to give me more control over the strength of my coffee, and since then I&#8217;ve been trying different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coffee-statistics.com\/best-ground-coffee\/\">recommended<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespruceeats.com\/best-ground-coffee-4844278\">brands<\/a> that I can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/food\/best-aldi-coffee\">get<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/spoonuniversity.com\/lifestyle\/10-best-ground-coffees-at-the-grocery-store\">grocery store<\/a>. Here are my ratings so far, based solely on my personal taste:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Folgers Classic Roast: 3\/5<\/li>\n<li>Barissimo Medium Roast: 4\/5<\/li>\n<li>Seattle&#8217;s Best Coffee Portside Blend: 2\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Reading<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m reevaluating my year-long reading plans.<\/strong> After missing a few days of reading last week, I&#8217;ve gotten even more behind than when I made the plans, and the days I did read, it took a lot of time. I&#8217;m still going to try to stick with my one-year plans for the shorter books, but each page of the commentary is like two of a regular book, so I might plan to take two years for that one. I&#8217;ll decide for sure once I&#8217;ve caught up (if I do) and I see how long a normal day&#8217;s reading takes.<\/p>\n<h2>Politics<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude12<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m keeping an eye on political extremists.<\/strong> I&#8217;m especially paying attention to the government&#8217;s response to them, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/01\/11\/capitol-riot-self-coup-trump-fiona-hill-457549\">international<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/indica.medium.com\/i-lived-through-a-coup-america-is-having-one-now-437934b1dac3\">perspectives<\/a> on them, to researchers who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeganSquire0\">track<\/a> their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oneunderscore__\">activity<\/a>, and to military-minded people who tell me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zXLe-XikgJs\">how they operate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Productivity \ud83d\ude15 I wrestled with fatigue all week. Since I was determined to get my work done and not use personal time just for naps, my work days tended to stretch into the evenings, which didn&#8217;t help with my sleep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/18\/weeknote-for-1-17-2021\/\">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":[146,188,50,65,127,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee","category-politics","category-productivity","category-reading","category-sleep","category-weeknotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","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=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}