{"id":2049,"date":"2023-09-19T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T02:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2023-09-19T21:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T02:22:26","slug":"weeknote-for-9-17-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/19\/weeknote-for-9-17-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 9\/17\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Productivity<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>I returned to my mini-Pomodoro timer at work\u20144 minutes of work and 1 minute of break.<\/strong> It sounds ridiculous, but for the most part it keeps my time organized. It\u2019s enabling me to pay some attention to side projects that I would otherwise procrastinate on. I work on them during my mini-breaks throughout the day. This got me through my blog post and a motivation hurdle in my math project. At the same time, it boosted my work productivity, which had been in a slump.<\/p>\n<h2>Math<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude0c<\/p>\n<p><strong>After more deliberation and research on how to approach it, I finally started taking notes for my flashcards.<\/strong> I decided on writing them in Google Sheets to import into Anki. Now I\u2019m experimenting with how much detail to include in the notes. And yes, I\u2019m still in the prealgebra stage. So I\u2019m looking at how I can speed things up without cheating my learning. I\u2019m hoping to at least touch on algebra this iteration.<\/p>\n<h2>Fiction<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p><strong>I tentatively decided on a theme for my October media, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WebOriginal\">horror web originals<\/a>, focusing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/scp-wiki.wikidot.com\/\">SCP Foundation<\/a>.<\/strong> I might also pick up where I left off on <a href=\"https:\/\/everymanhybrid.fandom.com\/wiki\/EverymanHYBRID_Wiki\">EverymanHYBRID<\/a>. If it turns out I\u2019m not in the mood for all that, I\u2019ll switch to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weird_fiction\">weird fiction<\/a>, probably starting with <em>The Weird<\/em>, a large anthology edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. And if I\u2019m not in the mood for that, I\u2019ll switch to classic horror with my old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/03\/weeknote-for-10-3-2021\/\">Victorian<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/24\/weeknote-for-10-24-2021\/\">story<\/a> list and a modern take on vampires, <em>The Night Watch<\/em> by Sergei Lukyanenko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Productivity \ud83d\ude42 I returned to my mini-Pomodoro timer at work\u20144 minutes of work and 1 minute of break. It sounds ridiculous, but for the most part it keeps my time organized. It\u2019s enabling me to pay some attention to side &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/19\/weeknote-for-9-17-2023\/\">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":[186,100,50,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-math-relearning","category-productivity","category-weeknotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","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=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}