{"id":1751,"date":"2022-04-06T22:52:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2022-04-06T22:52:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:52:30","slug":"weeknote-for-4-3-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/06\/weeknote-for-4-3-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 4\/3\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Website<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude11<\/p>\n<p><strong>It turns out my local wiki installation works already, so now I need to contact the web host for help.<\/strong> What I thought was a local server error was the browser being redirected to the remote website. Once I got all the settings adapted, the local website worked fine, so I need to see what the web host can tell me.<\/p>\n<h2>Health<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p><strong>I spent the week getting over a cold or something.<\/strong> I&#8217;ll blame that for my extra naps and low productivity. On the bright side, I learned how to use those at-home COVID tests and got a negative result. The remains of the illness are still hanging on, but that&#8217;s how it goes these days with my immune-suppressing medications. At least I don&#8217;t have a cough this time. Weeks of coughing is very annoying.<\/p>\n<h2>Productivity<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m taking stock of the strengths and weaknesses of my productivity system.<\/strong> Generally I&#8217;ve been able to stabilize some of my everyday life maintenance so that my quality of life is much better than it used to be. I&#8217;ve also come up with some better ways to push myself through my knowledge work. But my system still hasn&#8217;t resulted in significantly more project time or faster progress on my projects. I still have a lot of thinking to do, but some ideas I&#8217;ve had for improvements are (1) coding a script to extract data from Google Sheets so I can analyze all this activity I&#8217;ve been tracking, (2) brainstorming ways to deal with fatigue, and (3) coding an activity alert app to help me focus when I&#8217;m working at the computer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m trying out managing my personal projects using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planview.com\/resources\/guide\/introduction-to-kanban\/\">Kanban<\/a> board in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/software\/jira\">Jira<\/a>.<\/strong> I&#8217;ll see if the cards-in-columns format helps me visually juggle my projects more easily. One of the key factors in Kanban is the work-in-progress (WIP) limit, which pushes you not to accept more work than you can handle at a time. I&#8217;m expecting this approach to help me make more conscious decisions about when to take on what projects and when to resist interrupting them with other projects, since that&#8217;s a pattern that seems to hold me back.<\/p>\n<h2>Spirituality<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p><strong>I did nothing on the everyday prayer project.<\/strong> I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll keep working on this past Easter till it&#8217;s done. But I&#8217;ll see what I think after the Kanban board gets going.<\/p>\n<h2>Life maintenance<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude24<\/p>\n<p><strong>This week&#8217;s major project will be my taxes.<\/strong> You&#8217;d think someone with a productivity system would have them done by now, but no. But I will finish them before the last minute!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website \ud83d\ude11 It turns out my local wiki installation works already, so now I need to contact the web host for help. 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