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Inspired by another listen to David Anderson\u2019s book Kanban<\/em>, I worked on making my evening schedule more consistent.<\/strong> The exploratory, knowledge-centered projects I\u2019m involved with are more complex and variable than the manufacturing assembly lines addressed by The Goal<\/em> (which I read recently<\/a>) and its Theory of Constraints, and the Kanban<\/a> approach adapts TOC and similar frameworks to these messier environments.<\/p>\n One of the priorities of Kanban is to achieve a predictable delivery cadence, and I realized I\u2019d never achieve a consistent flow in my projects if I didn\u2019t protect my project time, so I started collecting techniques and focusing my efforts. Primarily I set particular times as \u201cbedtimes\u201d for the activities of that time block so I could start my project time block and my actual bedtime on time, and I kept those times in mind as I progressed through my various routines.<\/p>\n A deep dive into applying Kanban to my projects will be part of my next productivity iteration in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n Blogging throughout the week is off to a promising start.<\/strong> I added a daily blogging session as a follow-up to my daily admin time to comment on any topic that had come up that day or made progress. Spreading out the blogging over the week on purpose did lower the stress of writing \u2026 until I got to Sunday and realized I had a few more topics to cover. But this pile-up led to some ideas for improvement this week\u2014aiming to write only one topic per day and to finish all my notes by Sunday so all I have to do is revise and post.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I set up the FLEx<\/a> project for my mnemonic language, began studying the concepts in the FLEx \u201cIntroduction to Lexicography<\/a>\u201d article, and began filling in the names for my new set of PAO initials.<\/strong><\/p>\n The language file has nothing in it except some metadata from the setup wizard, but it\u2019s ready to receive words when I\u2019m ready to enter them. I still haven\u2019t settled on a name for the language, but my working names have been Thinkunem (which is Thinkumnem without the confusing silent m<\/em>) and TML (for Thinkulum Mnemonic Language), which echoes the kind of acronymic names we use in programming (HTML, CSS, JSON, etc.).<\/p>\n The lexicography article will help me keep language features in mind to make use of, which is far from straightforward given the highly idiomatic nature of the language, so I\u2019ll have to think about what counts as a lexeme, a morpheme, a root, an affix, etc.<\/p>\n I was hoping to finish the PAO names so I can use them in my math relearning, but since I\u2019m switching to the math project this week, I\u2019ll be limited to working on the names a few minutes here and there till I get back to the memory project. In the meantime my alphabet is at least helping me chunk numbers into somewhat memorable nonsense words, like LIARORA for the date of this weeknote (with my new letter R for 2 instead of N).<\/p>\n \ud83e\uddd0<\/p>\n This week I\u2019ll start a two-week iteration on my math relearning project with some exploratory planning on reviewing algebra.<\/strong> My main aim for this iteration is to get a sense for what I can accomplish when I get back into the project, probably in late August or early September, after another productivity iteration and my fall housekeeping and maybe a bit more on memory. I\u2019ll be applying some of the recent lessons I\u2019ve learned from work about learning a subject area more efficiently.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n I\u2019ve written off one of my regular walking spots due to flooding.<\/strong> There are two paths from the parking lot into the woods, both passing by ponds that I\u2019m not sure have any outlets. The ponds have risen enough over the past few weeks that one half of one of them is completely covered, and the other is developing a big enough puddle that people have created stepping stones out of debris, which slipped under me this time and splashed me with muddy pond water. I\u2019ll check back in a month and see if the paths are clear enough for regular walks again.<\/p>\nLearning<\/h2>\n
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Nature<\/h2>\n
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