Daily Entry: September 28th, 2017

Thu Sep 28 18:12:45 UTC 2017

Copying locally created time-block over.

Time (PDT) Intention Revision 1 Revision 2
0000 SLEEP
0030 SLEEP
0100 SLEEP
0130 SLEEP
0200 SLEEP
0230 SLEEP
0300 SLEEP
0330 SLEEP
0400 SLEEP
0430 SLEEP
0500 SLEEP
0530 SLEEP
0600 SLEEP
0630 SLEEP
0700 SLEEP
0730 SLEEP
0800 SLEEP
0830 SLEEP
0900 Laying in bed
0930 Getting ready
1000 Walk to work
1030 Setup at work
1100 PLANNING
1130 CA-3113
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Zendesk project Fixing CA-3113 bug
1330 Zendesk project Fixing CA-3113 bug
1400 1:1 Prep Zendesk project
1430 1:1 Meeting Zendesk project
1500 Zendesk project 1:1 Meeting
1530 Zendesk project 1:1 Meeting Mentor
1600 Zendesk project Browsing
1630 WeWork Happy hour
1700 Actions: Reading Browsing
1730 Leveling spreadsheet and Actions: Reading
1800 Leveling spreadsheet Actions: Reading
1830 End-of-day review
1900 Walk home
1930 Cooking
2000 Cooking
2030 Inbox & Tickler Cooking
2100 Gaming: Overwatch
2130 Gaming: Overwatch
2200 End of day review TV: YouTube
2230 End of day routine TV: YouTube
2300 SLEEP End of day routine
2330 SLEEP

Gonna finish an item today and then start diving into a 2-week project.

Woo.

Fri Sep 29 00:27:41 UTC 2017

Let it be noted that I was mentally tired and decided to browse and instead got more mentally taxed wasting thinking on stuff I have no control over.

Fri Sep 29 01:06:03 UTC 2017

Still slowly reading that Rules of Thumb paper. There's a link to a cool place called Which Test Won (now Behave.org) that shows results from A/B tests around the web.

The paper itself warns that "Rule #3: Your Mileage WILL Vary". Don't just accept the results on the page. However, testing it yourself is low-hanging fruit, so test it and add it if you get the proper mileage.

Fri Sep 29 01:23:41 UTC 2017

Oh, yeah, I linked to the main paper, but not the blog that I found it through. The Morning Paper gave a good TL;DR of the Rules of Thumb paper.

It looks like a worthwhile blog to read regularly.

Following a citation: Neil Patel suggests 10,000 monthly visitors for A/B experimentation to be viable in 11 Obvious A/B Tests You Should Try. Well, I guess I'll wait until I want to do A/B tests on a site with more than 10,000 monthly visitors before reading that link.

Fri Sep 29 01:41:54 UTC 2017

Insight from work end-of-day review:

The two 1:1s today really tired me out. Meetings with people are engaging, but incredibly taxing. Notably, the stuff I do online for entertainment have a similar effect. However, reading papers on A/B testing are engergizing.

Perhaps I should focus on non-social, technically-minded breaks when looking to recharge.

Fri Sep 29 01:43:34 UTC 2017

Heading home.

Fri Sep 29 06:04:52 UTC 2017

Keep putting off digitizing receipts. I'll keep planning it until it happens and then try to recreate the situation that made sure I did it.

Going to chill in bed until I fall asleep now.