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I got close to finishing setting up my priority tasks for the upcoming work on this project, my productivity system in Notion.<\/strong> I\u2019m creating items in my task database to correspond to the plain text list I assembled in my analysis of my Notion workspace. This project is currently a side project, so it\u2019s moving more slowly than before. This week I\u2019ll finish the setup, and then I\u2019ll start working through the tasks, probably starting with a visual map of the task relationships using Notion\u2019s dependency view<\/a>.<\/p>\n I listened to an old thread on Hacker News with lots of helpful productivity advice for grad students, a situation I may find myself in again someday:<\/strong> I’ve procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year<\/a>. The glimpses I got there of PhD life reminded me I still don\u2019t really know what to expect from that kind of program, and I\u2019ll need to do a deep dive before I embark on it so I can make good decisions and try to shape my experience there.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n I made the easy decisions on my election ballot.<\/strong> I\u2019m taking my usual approach of researching the races, filling in my mail-in ballot, and taking it to a ballot drop box. Now that I\u2019m past the easy races, I\u2019m researching the propositions while I wait on newspaper endorsements to help me with the harder ones. I find that my voting decisions can\u2019t only be informed by lists of the candidates\u2019 positions on the issues. I want to know if they have the right experience and a good track record and if they\u2019ve had any controversies I care about. Since I don\u2019t follow those things regularly, I need the media and other online postings to help me out.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Another song caught my attention from my worship team\u2019s set on Sunday, \u201cThere Is a Redeemer<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong> It was originally recorded by the legendary Keith Green but written by his wife, Melody<\/a>. Listening to it as I practiced, I was struck by its earnest simplicity, and I thought that in the unlikely event I ever led worship at a missions conference, I\u2019d definitely want to include it, somewhere toward the end where it could be a response to all the sharing.<\/p>\n So I made my usual playlist of covers<\/a> and then decided to start listening to Melody\u2019s memoir of their ministry, No Compromise<\/em>. I\u2019d picked up the ebook a while back on sale and didn\u2019t really think I\u2019d get around to reading it, but clearly you never know. I\u2019m listening to it in bits in-between other things, and it does a nice job of humanizing this larger-than-life, radical figure who I only vaguely knew of because he was a little before my time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Productivity \ud83e\udd14 I got close to finishing setting up my priority tasks for the upcoming work on this project, my productivity system in Notion. I\u2019m creating items in my task database to correspond to the plain text list I assembled … Continue reading Election<\/h2>\n
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