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My productivity finally climbed back to an almost normal level thanks to getting more sleep.<\/strong> Either that or my brain decided two months was a long enough break. It\u2019s a relief to feel like my new old self again.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n Eliyahu Goldratt\u2019s classic management novel The Goal<\/em><\/a> about his Theory of Constraints presented me with lots of food for thought.<\/strong> It gave me another chance to consider how I could apply operations management principles to my life, an approach I didn\u2019t get far with a few years ago. The book especially drew my attention to identifying and managing my bottlenecks and making my whole system of time management more visible to myself.<\/p>\n On visibility, I reworked my daily schedule tracker to give myself a better overall view of my time, merging my work and home schedules, which should improve my awareness of how the two interact.<\/p>\n Since my weeknotes act as a kind of bottleneck, to simplify writing them even more I spent Saturday afternoon creating a weeknote dashboard in Notion, and I set another limitation on the weeknote content using the analogy of sports commentary. The dashboard lets me set the date of the weeknote and automatically display all the Notion tasks and documents that I updated the week before. On the sports commentary for my week, I\u2019m thinking I could devote most of each post to a play-by-play of the projects I\u2019m tracking and then limit myself to one \u201ccolor commentary\u201d topic.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n To nudge myself to keep my current memory project in mind, I made a phone background with AI to represent it.<\/strong> The mnemonic language I want to try creating will ideally have a logographic writing system, so I had the model generate a bunch of colorful icons<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n