Daily Entry: May 24th, 2018

Thu May 24 16:32:19 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2300
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2300
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 10 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • 0400: 5 minutes
    • 0600: 5 minutes
    • 0630: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0700
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0730
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Long day full of talking/listening to people
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours 45 minutes
  • Did you take any medication that might have affected your sleep? What? When?
    • No

Evening sleep questions:

  • Did you nap today? How many times? When? How long?
    • No
  • Did you consume any medicine that you do not take on a daily basis? What? How much? When?
    • No
  • Did you have any caffeinated or alcoholic beverages today? What? How much? When?
    • No
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 4
Thu May 24 16:33:39 UTC 2018

Goals:

  • 3000 calories
  • 20g added sugars
  • 120g protein (20g every 3 hours)

Weight:

  • @0730: 216.6 lbs

Protein @0730:

  • Pea protein: 110

Breakfast @0900:

  • Tofu scramble at The Plant restaurant: 800 (910)

Lunch @1200:

  • Flying falafel: 800 (1710)

Dinner @1800:

  • Flying falafel: 1000 (2710)

Protein @2100:

  • Pea protein: 110 (2920)
Thu May 24 16:35:54 UTC 2018
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 Laying in bed
0730 TV: YouTube
0800 Morning routine
0830 Walk to The Plant
0900 Eating
0930 Organization
1000 PLANNING
1030 GDPR OpsLead Prep
1100 PR Deploy
1130 Thinking
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Thinking Socializing
1330 Weekly Workspaces St Socializing
1400 NAP Aimless meandering
1430 Arb3 Test Doc Aimless meandering
1500 Arb3 Test Doc Ping pong
1530 Arb3 Test Doc
1600 Arb3 Test Doc
1630 Reading buffer Ping pong
1700 End of day review Ping pong
1730 Walk to flying falafel
1800 Eating
1830 Shower/laundry
1900 Thinking TV: YouTube
1930 Thinking Organizing
2000 Thinking End of day review
2030 Thinking
2100 End of day routine
2130 Winding down
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Thu May 24 18:15:29 UTC 2018

Time for some thinking!

Work thinking, though. So gots to do it in a private area.

Thu May 24 22:36:31 UTC 2018

Pomodoro starting now.

Thu May 24 22:37:52 UTC 2018

Nope, needed music to drown out distractions. Restarting.

Thu May 24 22:58:46 UTC 2018

Went from task at hand to discussing other task. No pomodoro points for that.

Still got some work in, at least.

Thu May 24 23:05:45 UTC 2018

Pomodoro starting now.

Thu May 24 23:33:58 UTC 2018

Got distracted right at the end. Also, need to actually have an alarm ring because I got properly focused and didn't look at my watch much.

Also going to need a smarter capturing of pomodoro data if I start doing this seriously. For now I'll need the end of day review to process my notes.

Which... actually, the end of day review is supposed to be now.

Fri May 25 03:02:21 UTC 2018

Okay, now it's end of day review time.

Which I guess should be a pomodoro?

Sure.

Let's dust off my old timer.

All right. I managed... one pomodoro today.

I guess it'll be two after this one.

I've decided it's very important to become a power user of Mixpanel (aka the comapny I work for).

There are pain points to using our product that I haven't internalized because I don't use the product. There are processes external to the product that salespeople in our company use to help customers setup Mixpanel, which should be a part of the Mixpanel product itself.

I'm reminded of an annecdote I've heard before. There was an app available for both iPhone and Android, but the Android version was terrible. When trying to figure out why, the manager of the Android team realized that all the devs had iPhones. These devs were forced to switch to Android phones and had to use the app they were developing. The Android app quickly caught up to its sister version.

Further, I have a use-case for Mixpanel.... Or an idea on how to use it.

As you know, I've been reading the 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX), and the 3rd disicpline is "Keep a Compelling Scoreboard". This means capture the metrics for the scoreboard, and showing those numbers in a clear "Are we winning or losing?" way.

This should absolutely be something I can do with Mixpanel.

Fri May 25 03:18:06 UTC 2018

Minor distraction: dryer is done.

Fri May 25 03:18:28 UTC 2018

There's a lot of ideas swirling in my head right now. But basically I'm thinking I should:

  • get familiar with the Mixpanel projects (aka Mixpanel's dogfood projects)
  • make my own smaller project for any random reason

In any case, I want to have some wildly important goals (WIGs) that I'm scoreboarding. There's the two projects I am on, which I won't detail here at all, and this one.

And that's my end-of-day review. I'll try to add structure to this as time goes on.

Fri May 25 03:48:53 UTC 2018

My mind is just racing right now.

Fri May 25 03:52:58 UTC 2018

I just made it so the home page of my site: http://ksionda.me/ redirects to this here diary. The home page has been an embarassing lie for a long time, better to just point to my diary for now.

Fri May 25 04:03:24 UTC 2018

End of day routine time. Then winding down for bed.