{"id":2213,"date":"2024-09-09T00:56:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T05:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2024-09-09T00:56:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T05:56:49","slug":"weeknote-for-9-8-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/09\/weeknote-for-9-8-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 9\/8\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Productivity<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\ude0c<\/p>\n

My latest productivity lifestyle change is trying to wake up consistently early.<\/strong> I learned from my productive Saturday that starting the day early boosts my morale at least as much as getting enough sleep, so I\u2019m going to try prioritizing my wake up time rather than trying to make up for a late bedtime in the morning.<\/p>\n

Again I poured a lot of time into progressing a few more steps on my Kanban setup.<\/strong> I\u2019m eager to reach certain milestones of Kanban functionality so I can use the system to work on my other projects. Still, even before I reach that point, I\u2019m seeing some incremental benefits from what I\u2019ve added already.<\/p>\n

Parts of my Notion Kanban setup that I worked on last week:<\/p>\n

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  1. I created views to help me make decisions on tasks that have been sitting in one status for a long time, such as Priority or Paused.<\/em> Creating these felt settling, because ever-growing lists of stale, forgotten tasks has been a long-term problem in my task management, and now I feel I have a sensibly organized, workable way to address them.<\/li>\n
  2. I added dates for calculating lead and cycle times for each project as a whole.<\/em> The ages of my projects immediately reminded me time passes quicker than I think and motivated me to make the most of it.<\/li>\n
  3. I added filters to my overall Kanban boards to hide tasks from projects that aren\u2019t currently relevant.<\/em> Establishing this new way to shrink the amount of information I have to process at once felt satisfying.<\/li>\n
  4. I analyzed how to track the status of tasks that have sub-tasks, which conflict a bit with the more linear way Kanban tends to track work.<\/em> It felt clarifying to sort out some of the ways I organize information and how they should and shouldn\u2019t change.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Parts of the system I\u2019ll work on next:<\/p>\n

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    1. I\u2019ll clarify some of my confusing, ambiguous statuses, such as \u201cOngoing.\u201d<\/em> Like many of these other discussions, it\u2019ll keep me from continually scratching my head as I use the system.<\/li>\n
    2. I\u2019ll revise my Kanban board for the individual project template.<\/em> Updating this view I haven’t been using will let me focus on managing my workflow within one project rather than sifting through all my tasks at once.<\/li>\n
    3. I\u2019ll create a timeline view that visualizes tasks that have due dates.<\/em> This will give me a high level overview of my time limits to help me prioritize my tasks.<\/li>\n
    4. I\u2019ll create a timeline view that visualizes my task history.<\/em> This will help me review where I spent my time, which among other things will help me write these weeknotes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Audiobooks<\/h2>\n

      \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n

      I finished listening to books 1 and 2 of The Brothers Karamazov<\/em>, the reading for our first book group meeting in a couple of weeks.<\/strong> It made the same kind of psychological deep dive into the characters that appealed to me in Middlemarch<\/em>. Then the interesting discussion on church and state added to my sense of overlap between my interests and the novel’s. And some of the dialogue was hilarious, mostly thanks to the way Luke Thompson interpreted the characters.<\/p>\n

      While waiting for the book group to start, I\u2019ve been catching up on some of the short books in my Audible library.<\/strong> Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve listened to so far:<\/p>\n

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      1. Finding Your Best<\/em> by Michael Gervais and Pete Carroll – A casual but inspiring conversation on some principles of mindset and coaching.<\/li>\n
      2. Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic<\/em> by Nick Carr, narrated by William Jackson Harper – The reading and production were fantastic. The story took half its length to feel like it was going anywhere, but it tied things together by the end, and there were some funny moments along the way.<\/li>\n
      3. Who Is Elmyr?<\/em>, written and read by Max Horberry – A fascinating example of metafiction in real life.<\/li>\n
      4. It\u2019s Not What It Looks Like<\/em>, written and read by Molly Burke (YouTube channel<\/a>) – I\u2019m on the tail end of this one, a moving, enlightening, and enlivening look at what life can be like for someone who\u2019s blind.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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