Fri Jun 30 19:01:31 EDT 2017

Been a while!

I've been distracted and also currently have a cold, I think.

Interviews with both Mixpanel and AQR went very well! I struggled with a question from each, and otherwise tackled the other questions reasonably. I'll want to do a post-mortem for sure, but we'll see how long it takes for e to get to that. I have good notes from the AQR interview, but not such good notes from Mixpanel.

So, I should probably review Mixpanel sooner rather than later to minimize forgotten things.

Fri Jun 30 19:04:21 EDT 2017

However, first I shall discuss excising some things from my life. Namely, I'm once again going to attempt to remove wasteful browsing from my life. And also watch only select TV.

I'm not going to put any limits on video games, because I seem to play games that tire me out and in all honesty it seems the more I can game, the more I can focus on productive things, so gaming is practice as far as I'm concerned.

Anyways, everytime I go about limiting my browsing I try a different strategy. Last time, it was my Browsing Costs chrome extension that I made myself. And I think an extension is the way to go, actually, but I think the mistake I made with Browsing Costs, and that most site-blockers make, is that I'm avoiding going to sites because I want to do things.

So, rather, before I go to any sites I deem a "waste of time", I'd like to devote a minimum amount of time to the various things I want to improve at. So, programming, drawing, writing, whatever.

So, next extension will just verify I've done just that before letting me into any sites.

But that's an honor system no matter what so I can use my current "Browsing Costs" extension and just remind myself to do those things first.

Fri Jun 30 20:54:32 EDT 2017

Watching Hunger Games with fam. Going to do some programming at the same time, I think, as I've already seen the movie.