Daily Entry: June 26th, 2018

Tue Jun 26 13:52:57 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
    • Think about Babuska, Grandparents, people who're gone TONIGHT
  • Physical Inbox DONE
    • Vanguard stuff DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello DONE
  • JIRA SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack SKIPPED
  • Digitize hand-written notes SKIPPED
  • Update the diary post as necessary SKIPPED
  • Rotate password SKIPPED
  • Review last year SKIPPED
  • Review last month SKIPPED
  • Review last week SKIPPED
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
  • Review the Day SKIPPED
Tue Jun 26 13:53:10 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2200
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2230
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 5 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • 0400: 5 minutes
    • 0430: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0615
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0630
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • No
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours 30 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?
    • 1430: 30 minutes
  • 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? *
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • @1100 30 mg caffeine (20 oz decaf soy latte)
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 1930
Tue Jun 26 13:54:15 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0630: 212.2 lbs
  • @2100: 214.0 lbs
Tue Jun 26 14:14:15 UTC 2018

Protein @0645:

  • Plant protein: 110
  • Banana: 100 (210)
  • Spinach: 20 (230)
  • Strawberries: 50 (280)

Breakfast @1000:

  • Waffle: 400 (680)
  • Peanuts: 200 (880)
  • Banana: 100 (980)
  • Strawberries: 50 (1030)

Coffee @1100:

  • Decaf soy latte: 200 (1230)

Tampeh sandwich @1200:

  • Toast: 140 (1370)
  • Avocado: 300 (1670)
  • Tampeh: 150 (1820)
  • Spinach: 20 (1840)
  • Tomato: 20 (1860)
  • Vegan hollandaise: 50 (1910)
  • Barbecue chips: 150 (2060)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (2160)

Protein @1500:

  • Pea protein: 100 (2260)
  • Banana: 100 (2360)

Dinner @1700:

  • Mac and teese: 300 (2660)
  • Ripple pea milk: 70 (2730)

Protein @2000:

  • Soy protein: 110 (2840)
Tue Jun 26 14:16:18 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 Laying in bed
0630 Morning routine
0700 Pomodoro: Planning
0730 Run 4.6 miles (42:27)
0800 Run 4.6 miles
0830 Stretching/Shower
0900 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Cooking and Eating
0930 Cooking Catching up on chat
1000 Eating Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1030 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Slack talk
1100 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Walk to Starbucks
1130 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1200 Lunch Walk home
1230 Lunch Cooking
1300 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Eating
1330 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1400 NAP Pomodoro: Definitions
1430 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ NAP
1500 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Browsing the Internet
1530 Grocery shopping Pomodoro: Definitions
1600 Grocery shopping Pomodoro: Definitions
1630 Cooking Pomodoro: Definitions
1700 Eating Cooking and Eating
1730 Pomodoro: Timer Remake
1800 Pomodoro: Timer Remake
1830 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin
1900 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin
1930 Pomodoro: End of day review Random break
2000 Gaming: Overwatch
2030 Gaming: Overwatch
2100 End of day routine Pomodoro: End of day review
2130 Winding down
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Wed Jun 27 00:43:01 UTC 2018

Been a while, let's dive into my Timer Remake.

Wed Jun 27 01:40:40 UTC 2018

Out of time. I've made it so there's an "Add Alarm" button that when pressed opens up a input field and a save button. Tomorrow, I'll make it so you can save a url.

Maybe I can even get a youtube video playing there, too. Though I'd really have to hack my way there and then backup and cleanup.

Wed Jun 27 01:42:59 UTC 2018

Anyways, time for IGDA Admin stuff.

Wed Jun 27 04:03:59 UTC 2018

End of day review!

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello SKIPPED
  • JIRA SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Digitize hand-written notes N/A
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password SKIPPED
  • Review last year N/A
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week
  • Review yesterday
  • Review the Day
    • Think about Babuska, Grandparents, people who're gone DONE
    • What have you been doing at work? SKIPPED
    • How's climbing going? SKIPPED
    • How're personal projects going? SKIPPED
    • Are there any insights you had today that are worth writing down? SKIPPED
    • What have you been reading? SKIPPED
    • What have you been watching? SKIPPED
Wed Jun 27 04:15:20 UTC 2018

Last month: "Time with family! Yeah!"

Wed Jun 27 04:16:39 UTC 2018

Last week, I was in SF trying to quickly kickoff the new work project (coming along pretty well).

Wed Jun 27 04:17:34 UTC 2018

Yesterday, I failed to get some time in on my timer project, and resolved to making sure I got that time in today (success).

Wed Jun 27 04:19:19 UTC 2018

Today....

Today was a lot like yesterday, except I worked from home, and managed to make time for side projects. My total pomodoros today will be 12, but this time one of them is planning and 4 of them are personal projects.

But let's focus on that tickler item I came across this morning.

"Think about Babuska, Grandparents, people who're gone."

This is a physical index card I made on August 22nd, 2014. It was originally: "Call Babuska". Everytime I create an index card for tickler, I mark its creation on the back (e.g. "08/22/14C"). Whenever something significant happens with the card, I mark another date.

Feburary 17th, 2015: Babuska died.

Feburary 21st, 2015: Changed to think about.

"Call" is still on the card. Crossed out. It elicts a semi-hollow feeling to look at it. A slight melancholy.

Thanks to this simple card, for almost 6 months I called my babuska every week until she died. When I found out she was in her final week, I dropped everything and flew to her and saw her one last time.

She wasn't a perfect person, mind you. But she was a wonderful person. And there's a lingering sadness that I won't interact with her again. But I approximate it, here and there. Every once in a while I'll say, "I love you," like she did. She would linger on the word "love" and give it extra energy and even sing it a bit. Sometimes I explicitly say "Babuska hug!" whilst I gently rock someone back and forth in a hug.

I love you, Babuska.

Daily Entry: June 25th, 2018

Mon Jun 25 13:55:18 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello DONE
  • JIRA DONE
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Digitize hand-written notes N/A
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password DONE
  • Review last year N/A
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week SKIPPED
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
  • Review the Day SKIPPED
    • What have you been reading? SKIPPED
    • What have you been doing at work? SKIPPED
    • How's climbing going? SKIPPED
    • How're personal projects going? SKIPPED
    • Are there any insights you had today that are worth writing down? SKIPPED
Mon Jun 25 13:55:31 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2150
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2215
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 5 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • 0530: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0605
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0615
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • No
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours 40 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?
    • 1420: 30 minutes
  • 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)
    • 7
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 2040
Mon Jun 25 13:56:18 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0630: 214.0 lbs
Mon Jun 25 14:02:50 UTC 2018

Protein @0630:

  • Plant protein: 110
  • Banana: 100 (210)

Breakfast @0930:

  • Black bean chips: 170 (380)
  • Hummus: 150 (530)
  • Carrots: 20 (550)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (650)

Lunch @1200:

  • Bagel: 230 (880)
  • Avocado: 300 (1180)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (1280)
  • Apple: 100 (1380)

Protein @1430:

  • Pea protein: 100 (1480)
  • Banana: 100 (1580)

Dinner @1700:

  • Tofu: 200 (1780)
  • Tater tots: 300 (2080)
  • Banana: 100 (2180)

Protein @2000:

  • Soy protein: 110 (2290)
  • Mango: 200 (2490)
Mon Jun 25 14:07:57 UTC 2018

I just realized I forgot to start a pomodoro. I'll give myself ten more minutes on this.

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 Laying in bed
0630 Morning routine
0700 Planning
0730 Climb gym
0800 Climb gym
0830 Buffer
0900 Run to work (17:39)
0930 Start of work routine
1000 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1030 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1100 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Pomodoro: Digitize Lab book
1130 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Pomodoro: Rollup
1330 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Pomodoro: Rollup
1400 Seattle Prodeng Standup
1430 NAP
1500 Run home Bus home
1530 Stretching/Shower Prep for appointment
1600 Appointment
1630 Appointment
1700 Cooking Pomodoro: Rollups
1730 Cooking Pomodoro: Rollups
1800 Pomodoro: Timer Remake Pomodoro: Rollups
1830 Pomodoro: Timer Remake Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1900 Pomodoro: Timer Remake Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1930 Pomodoro: End of day review Laying down
2000 Gaming: Overwatch Pomodoro: C++ Game Dev Laying down
2030 Gaming: Overwatch Pomodoro: C++ Game Dev Laying down
2100 End of day routine Pomodoro: End of day review
2130 Winding down
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Mon Jun 25 14:10:24 UTC 2018

Last year, I didn't write a post. But I flew into NY and got a ride over to Greenwich, CT, for an interview at a place called... something. It's somewhere in my diary. AQR. Financial software place.

Mon Jun 25 14:16:01 UTC 2018

Last month, I flew to Chicago to begin my memorial day weekend with extended family. My mind was continuing its racing from the EPD offsite.

Tue Jun 26 04:20:27 UTC 2018

Late end-of-day review.

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello DONE
  • JIRA SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Digitize hand-written notes DONE
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password SKIPPED
  • Review last year DONE THIS MORNING
  • Review last month DONE THIS MORNING
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day DONE
    • What have you been doing at work? DONE
    • How's climbing going? DONE
    • How're personal projects going? DONE
    • Are there any insights you had today that are worth writing down? NO
    • What have you been reading? DONE
    • What have you been watching? DONE
Tue Jun 26 04:31:25 UTC 2018

Last week, I was in SF kicking off a new project at work. It was a long, but good day.

Tue Jun 26 04:34:20 UTC 2018

Yesterday, I did my weekly review. I updated my checklists and have added things to capture more of my review of the day.

I considered splitting my .daily checklist into two, but I like that it's the same morning and night. I'm fine with skipping stuff in the morning and skipping things I managed in the morning in the night.

I'm still considering the idea of devoting a day to properly transitioning my stuff to trello. I think I'm good with how things are for now, though. Maybe when I hit this post again in a future review.

Tue Jun 26 04:38:33 UTC 2018

I ended up putting in a lot of work today. All my pomodoros, except for this one, have been work pomodoros (and in a sense this pomodoro is a work pomodoro on work days because I'm reviewing the working day). I even neglected to pomodorize my planning block this morning (forgot to start the timer).

Even so, my final pomodoro count for today will be 12. Which will be the highest number since I started tracking it in Mixpanel.

I have a feeling tomorrow's might be higher, as I'm working from home, and... well, I've been really good about pomodoros at home for personal things. And today already showed that transfers to work just fine (I did 4 pomodoros on my work laptop at home).

That's one of the reasons I'm going to try working from home.

Tue Jun 26 04:42:08 UTC 2018

I flashed a new V2 today climbing. Still got my blisters from Friday, but they aren't hindering me too much. And a new blister joined them while climbing today. I can see my progress in climbing and it's really satisfying.

Tue Jun 26 04:42:56 UTC 2018

I have neglected personal projects again today.... I have to put in the normally allotted time tomorrow!

Tue Jun 26 04:43:16 UTC 2018

Today, I read Why I left Google to join Grab, and it's a good read. I'm now reading Get that job at Grab, and it has a compelling argument for looking for work even if you're happy where you're at.

I've also listened to more 7 Habits. I'm in the "emotional bank" metaphor part of the book. I've already made use of the concept today to the betterment of a relationship.

Tue Jun 26 04:46:06 UTC 2018

There's this YouTuber I regularly watch called Simple Flips. Just mindless entertainment, Stephan.

He had ROM hack competition results as a video today.

While winding down, I'll probably watch Extra Politics #4 - The Rules of Society, Part 1.

Tue Jun 26 04:48:55 UTC 2018

Anyways, I'm well past time. Time for bed!

Daily Entry: June 24th, 2018

Sun Jun 24 14:33:57 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello DONE
  • JIRA SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack SKIPPED
  • Digitize hand-written notes N/A
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password SKIPPED
  • Review last year DONE
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week
  • Review yesterday
  • Review the Day
Sun Jun 24 14:34:22 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2230
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2300
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 5 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • No
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0630
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0700
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Emotional stress
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours 20 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?
    • 1530: 30 minutes
  • 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?
    • @1700 30 mg caffeine (24 oz decaf soy latte)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 1
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 1930
Sun Jun 24 14:35:13 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0700: 214.8 lbs
  • @2000: 214.8 lbs
Sun Jun 24 14:41:10 UTC 2018

Protein @0700:

  • Plant protein: 110
  • Almond milk: 40 (150)

Breakfast @1000:

  • Tater tots: 400 (550)
  • Tofu: 200 (750)
  • Spinach: 20 (770)
  • Bread: 140 (910)

Snack @1200:

  • Tater tots: 200 (1110)

Protein @1500:

  • Pea protein: 100 (1210)
  • Banana: 100 (1310)

Coffee @1700:

  • Decaf soy latte: 200 (1510)

Snack @1800:

  • Banana: 200 (1710)
  • Mango: 200 (1810)

Dinner @2000:

  • Mac and teese: 500 (2310)

Protein @2100:

  • Soy protein: 110 (2420)
  • Banana: 100 (2520)
Sun Jun 24 14:44:45 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 Laying in bed
0700 Morning routine
0730 Pomodoro: Planning
0800 Pomodoro: Weekly Review
0830 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin
0900 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin Grocery shopping
0930 Cooking
1000 Eating
1030 Grocery shopping Cooking
1100 Grocery shopping Cooking
1130 Head to friend's Lexicon++
1200 IGDA Admin finish Head to friend's
1230 IGDA Admin finish IGDA Admin conversation
1300 TV: Voltron IGDA Admin conversation
1330 Walk home IGDA Admin conversation
1400 NAP TV: Voltron
1430 Pomodoro: Timer Remake Bus to library
1500 Pomodoro: Timer Remake Walk to work
1530 Pomodoro: Timer Remake NAP
1600 Walk to library Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1630 Walk to library Grocery shopping
1700 Walk home Bus home
1730 Walk home Grocery shopping
1800 Call people about visit Chill
1830 Call people about visit Clean kitchen
1900 Call people about visit
1930 Pomodoro: End of day review Cooking
2000 Gaming: Overwatch Eating
2030 Gaming: Overwatch
2100 End of day routine Pomodoro: End of day review
2130 Winding down
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Sun Jun 24 14:51:34 UTC 2018

Last year, I just had enough energy to say that SF was a blast.

Sun Jun 24 14:53:54 UTC 2018

Last month, I started doing pomodoros again. Though I didn't put them in my timeblock as I do now.

I also finally made it so http://ksionda.me actually redirects to this diary instead of my never updated WIP page.

I've made progress on a lot of the goals stated in that post (pomodoro-tracking, personal Mixpanel project), and still have a lot of work to do on other goals (dogfood projects in Mixpanel I'm still not using).

Sun Jun 24 14:59:53 UTC 2018

Weekly review time!

  • Last weekly review READ
  • Loose Papers N/A
  • Process Your Notes MADE TRELLO FOR WORK NOTEBOOKS (THAT ARE AT WORK)
  • Previous Calendar Dates DONE
  • Upcoming Calendar DONE
  • Review any relevant checklists DONE
    • Deleting old file .checklists as I don't use it anymore at all
    • As well as old file .goals, goals don't live in checklists
    • .breaks might be a good idea for a checklist.... I'll keep it and try to use it
  • Review Various Online Lists
    • Amazon wishlist DONE
    • Library DONE
    • Spark File SKIPPED
  • Read the week's diary posts SKIPPED
  • Review "Pending" and Support Files SKIPPED
  • Review "Projects" (and Larger Outcome) Lists SKIPPED
  • Review "Next Actions" Lists DONE
    • Email MADE PROGRESS!
  • Review "Waiting" Lists SKIPPED
    • Email SKIPPED
  • Someday/Maybe SKIPPED
    • Email SKIPPED
  • Add "Trello" back to daily list? SKIPPED
  • Add "Email - Actions" back to daily list? SKIPPED
  • Empty Your Head SKIPPED
  • Be creative and courageous SKIPPED
Sun Jun 24 15:27:31 UTC 2018

I may want to actually have a whole day (like recommended in GTD) wherein I clean house. I've gotten most of the important actions from email to trello, but there's 80 reading actions in there.

Mon Jun 25 04:06:47 UTC 2018

Today was a pretty good day, Stephan! Let's do my end of day review.

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox SKIPPED
  • Calendar SKIPPED
  • Trello SKIPPED
  • JIRA SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack SKIPPED
  • Digitize hand-written notes N/A
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password SKIPPED
  • Review last year DONE THIS MORNING
  • Review last month DONE THIS MORNING
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day
    • What have you been reading? DONE
    • What have you been doing at work? DONE
    • How's climbing going? DONE
    • How're personal projects going? DONE
    • Are there any insights you had today that are worth writing down? NO
Mon Jun 25 04:11:37 UTC 2018

Last week, my timer was in a working state, and just needed alarms. It's basically still in that state. I played with some means of implementation, and have decided that it is better to continue on my path and do a post-mortem and update how I implement things in the future (or even clean the timer up if I'm so inclined).

Mon Jun 25 04:12:55 UTC 2018

Yesterday, the wife and I had a bad comic-con experience. Or rather, we had a non-con experience due to poor communication on the con's side. I had considered doing a charge back based on principle, but I won't. Also on principle. I didn't keep the tickets, I gave them away. Probably to someone planning to resell them. I hope they got used. Next time, I'll keep the possibility of a chargeback in my mind to force a refund when I'm not on the erring side.

But, I'm still mostly proud of how I handled the situation. It wasn't perfect, but it was a marked improvement over previous bad experiences, and the wife and I are over it today. Or rather, we haven't mentioned it and I have no residual anger. It is done.

Mon Jun 25 04:16:52 UTC 2018

Okay, so, today. Today was good. No timer remake stuff today, which is too bad, as I'd like to get it to alarm state and move to using it over my old timer. But it's fine.

Something I haven't been mentioning, because I do it in tandem with other things in my timeblock, is that I've been listening to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. There are some parts of it I find problematic (basically I find it a bit ableist), but overall I think it is a useful thing for me to consume at this point in time. I have figured out the how, and it is giving me the what, is how I feel about it. Lots of good vocabulary and perspectives.

I have mentioned this, but before this I relistened to Deep Work, and also got a lot out of it.

Further (and this has been in my time block), I've been reading Training for Climbing, though I returned that to the library today. I read carefully the parts about mental attitude, and then skimmed the workout parts and what I should focus on. Basically, the argument there was, as a beginner, focus on climbing above other exercise (because I'm learning to climb and form over muscle for now), practice what I'm bad at, and I'll come back to the book in a year or so when I'm past the beginner stage.

I'll also do the exercises I want to focus on right now (pull ups and ab exercises) simply because I like getting stronger in those areas.

But also of note is that the mental part of the book had a lot of overlap with Deep Work and the 7 Habits. And even went over the exact same learning curve that The First 20 Hours dove into. It's really interesting to see all these sources cover the same ground from their own angle.

Mon Jun 25 04:24:18 UTC 2018

I'm making smooth progress on a project at work and am trying to remind myself to start using Mixpanel to track our progress there. I'm also regularly talking with customers about pain points relevant to what I'm working on, which is great and really motivates me. Further, I am overflowing with additional ideas which I've been storing in my work trello account.

Mon Jun 25 04:25:47 UTC 2018

Last Friday I basically skinned my hands climbing. Three blisters on my right hand and one on my left. Ouch. I was focusing on a particularly hard (for me) bouldering challenge, and after regularly getting past the beginning and getting a feel for the process, I decided to try really hard to finish it. I got four or so grips away from the end as I dug my hand into a grip. Ouch.

I think it was worth it. I learned a lot from the experience.

Mon Jun 25 04:27:45 UTC 2018

The timer remake has been slow-moving as I played with implementation details. We should be back to regular movement starting tomorrow. Hopefully before Tahoe I'll have switched to using it.

Mon Jun 25 04:28:59 UTC 2018

I've added some questions to my "Review the Day", as I'd like to be better about capturing various things, and sometimes I forget because my mind is focused elsewhere. I also skipped a lot of things because the morning does a good enough job most time and I'd like more time for reviewing these posts.

I may want to consider having a .planning checklist and a .nightly checklist or something.

Something to consider.

Mon Jun 25 04:30:47 UTC 2018

Anyways, I'm in the last minute of my pomodoro. I like how this review came out a lot. Loving the constant iterations on my system based on my observed needs.

Daily Entry: June 23rd, 2018

Sat Jun 23 15:06:01 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello DONE
  • JIRA SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack SKIPPED
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password SKIPPED
  • Review last year DONE
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE (WILL REDO)
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
  • Review the Day SKIPPED
  • Digitize hand-written notes DONE
Sat Jun 23 15:06:14 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2215
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2230
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 5 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • 0130: 5 minutes
    • 0345: 5 minutes
    • 0530: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0630
  • 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.)
    • No
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours 30 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?
    • 1430: 1 hour
  • 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?
    • @1100: 70 mg caffeine (40 oz of decaf soy latte)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 7
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 1920
Sat Jun 23 15:08:07 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0700: 214.8 lbs
  • @2115: 218.6 lbs
Sat Jun 23 15:14:24 UTC 2018

Breakfast @0730:

  • Pasta: 500
  • Soy milk: 100 (600)

Lunch @1030:

  • Decaf soy latte: 200 (800)
  • Soy milk: 100 (900)

Snack @1330:

  • Quesadilla: 800 (1700)

Dinner @1630:

  • Sizzle Pie: 1000 (2700)
Sat Jun 23 15:16:39 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 Laying in bed
0700 Laying in bed
0730 Morning routine
0800 Pomodoro: Planning
0830 Pomodoro: Timer Remake
0900 Pomodoro: Timer Remake
0930 Seattle Comic Con Reading: Training for Climbing
1000 Seattle Comic Con Reading: Training for Climbing
1030 Seattle Comic Con Travel to coffee
1100 Seattle Comic Con Coffee
1130 Seattle Comic Con Travel to comic con
1200 Seattle Comic Con Line shenannigans
1230 Seattle Comic Con Comic con cancelled (write about this tomorrow)
1300 Seattle Comic Con Comic con cancelled (write about this tomorrow)
1330 Seattle Comic Con Travel home
1400 Seattle Comic Con TV: YouTube
1430 Seattle Comic Con NAP
1500 Seattle Comic Con NAP
1530 Seattle Comic Con Travel to Sizzle pie
1600 Seattle Comic Con Sizzle Pie
1630 Sizzle pie Sizzle Pie
1700 Sizzle pie Mighty O's
1730 Grocery shopping Grocery shopping
1800 Bus home Travel home
1830 Pomodoro? TV: YouTube
1900 Pomodoro: End of day review Gaming: Overwawtch
1930 Pomodoro: Weekly review Gaming: Overwawtch
2000 Gaming: Overwatch
2030 Gaming: Overwatch
2100 End of day routine Pomodoro: End of day review
2130 Winding down
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP

Definintely won't do that much comic con, and maybe sizzle pie will be sooner, but those times can be renegotiated pretty easily.

Sat Jun 23 15:20:21 UTC 2018

Last year, there wasn't a post, but I had what I would later call a "religious experience" in SF. I had an interview with Mixpanel, followed by hanging out with my friends, and getting some good food. I then took a red-eye flight back to Indiana, where I saw Your Name, and made a temporary friend named Sandy whom told me "I bet you got the job", and bought me some airplane whiskey (which was pretty delicious) to celebrate.

Sat Jun 23 15:22:13 UTC 2018

Last month was the Mixpanel EPD off-site in SF. Long day, but good day, indeed. I also discussed how a friend of mine mentioned I exhibit similar focusing strategies as him and that he was recently diagnoised with ADHD.

Sat Jun 23 15:24:07 UTC 2018

Last week was a weekly review, and I may want to reread the post more carefully during my proper weekly review (which reminds me, I need that to be in my plan).

I'll reivew the rest of the post during my end of day review.

Sat Jun 23 15:34:18 UTC 2018

Let's do some timer stuff.

Sun Jun 24 02:08:27 UTC 2018

I'm physically tired from yesterday and emotionally tired from the events of today, so I'm going to move my weekly review to tomorrow (which actually makese sense, as today was basically a wife day and we already agreed that tomorrow would thus not be).

We'll see if I still do my end of day review or skip it today. But for now, Overwatch.

Sun Jun 24 04:12:15 UTC 2018

End of day review time.

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello SKIPPED
  • JIRA SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack SKIPPED
  • Digitize hand-written notes
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password SKIPPED
  • Review last year DONE THIS MORNING
  • Review last month REDONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day DONE
Sun Jun 24 04:25:32 UTC 2018

This morning, I skimmed last month a bit and for reasons I already don't remember, I wanted to read it again. So let's do that.

Wait, I wanted to redo for last week. That's how well I remember. Ah, yes, weekly review stuffs.... I guess I can give this a proper review tomorrow morning (I'll do my weekly review right after my planning pomodoro, I think).

Moving on, then.

Sun Jun 24 04:28:15 UTC 2018

Yesterday was my wife's birthday.

Sun Jun 24 04:29:21 UTC 2018

Which leads us to today....

Today didn't go so well. The wife and I recovered, but it was painful for a bit. We tried to go to comic con, and we bought tickets, and we waited in line.

And they wouldn't let use bring our metal reusable cups in. Even though the person behind us was wearing a ton of metal and was waved through. My wife... is diabled. Staying in line once was already too much for her, and we really like our reusable cups and aren't about to throw them away.

I wanted to see if I could get a refund, and the answer was no.

I was a bit angry, but I kept things fairly under control. I had a heated discussion with my wife, and she also did a good job keeping it under control. A person interuptted our conversation to ask if we'd sign a petition (something we've already done), and I, in my heated tone, explained to him that 1) we already signed that petition, and 2) we were clearly away from the line, and having a conversation, and I definitely do not appreciate being intruded upon. "I agree with what you're trying to do but learn to read people better, please." He got defensive and I ended the conversation there.

I went back to the ticket counter and said it'd be appreciated if they explained what wasn't allowed into the comic con area before selling the tickets. It's a clear design flaw in my opinion. You have to buy the non-refundable tickets before going through the line. The ticket-booth has no line. The woman behind the counter gave me a blank stare and said, "The information is available online."

....

So is buying tickets! Why would I go to the counter if I went online and bought tickets online? And, also, fact-check: the only quote about metal at all on their website is here: "ACE Comic Con has a strict weapon ban for metal, glass, plexiglass and stone weapons. Beyond that, it is completely at the discretion of our guests what they are willing to sign. Ask them prior to purchasing the autograph."

This is under the autograph section, and is worded as "weaponry". A cup is not a weapon. I'm actually considering trying a chargeback now. We weren't allowed to use services paid for based on incomplete information not given at the time of sale. I don't even care about the money. It's a principle sort of thing.

I've made a trello action item for it.

Sun Jun 24 04:48:38 UTC 2018

Anyways, we made sure to do other things in the day and recovered pretty well. Not a big deal overall.

Daily Entry: June 22nd, 2018

Fri Jun 22 13:48:10 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello DONE
  • JIRA DONE
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Digitize hand-written notes DONE
  • Update the diary post as necessary SKIPPED
  • Rotate password SKIPPED
  • Review last year SKIPPED
  • Review last month SKIPPED
  • Review last week SKIPPED
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
  • Review the Day SKIPPED
Fri Jun 22 13:48:23 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2145
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2230
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 5 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • 0530: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0605
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0605
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • No
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours 20 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?
    • 1450: 30 minutes
  • 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)
    • 2
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 1930
Fri Jun 22 13:49:16 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0615: 216.4 lbs
Fri Jun 22 13:56:17 UTC 2018

Protein @0630:

  • Pea protein: 100
  • Banana: 100 (200)

Breakfast @0930:

  • Black bean chips: 170 (370)
  • Hummus: 150 (520)
  • Carrots: 20 (540)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (640)

Lunch @1200:

  • Bagel: 230 (870)
  • Avocado: 300 (1170)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (1270)
  • Apple: 100 (1370)

Birthday cake @1300:

  • Vegan chocolate cake: 400 (1770)

Protein @1500:

  • Pea protein: 100 (1870)
  • Banana: 100 (1970)

Dinner @1800:

  • Pasta: 450 (2420)
  • Soy milk: 100 (2520)

Protein @2100:

  • Soy milk: 100 (2620)
Fri Jun 22 13:59:22 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 Morning routine
0630 Pomodoro: Planning
0700 Go to climbing gym
0730 Climbing gym
0800 Climbing gym
0830 Climbing gym
0900 Buffer Climbing gym
0930 Run to work Get ready to run to work
1000 Start of work routine Run to work (17:37)
1030 Pomodoro: Action Processing Start of work routine
1100 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Lexicon++ Meeting
1130 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Lexicon++ Meeting
1200 Lunch and learn
1230 Lunch and learn
1300 Pomodoro: Prep Prep
1330 Tags + Gaps: Meeting
1400 NAP Tags + Gaps: Meeting
1430 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Socializing
1500 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ NAP
1530 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1600 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Mentor tasks
1630 Wife's birthday Mentor tasks
1700 Wife's birthday Bus home
1730 Wife's birthday Hanging out
1800 Wife's birthday Hanging out
1830 Wife's birthday Gaming: Overwatch
1900 Wife's birthday Gaming: Overwatch
1930 Pomodoro: End of day review Gaming: Overwatch
2000 Gaming: Overwatch
2030 Gaming: Overwatch
2100 End of day routine Pomodoro: End of day review
2130 Winding down
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Sat Jun 23 04:22:42 UTC 2018

End of day review.

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello DONE
  • JIRA SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack SKIPPED
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password SKIPPED
  • Review last year N/A
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day DONE
  • Digitize hand-written notes
Sat Jun 23 04:34:04 UTC 2018

I didn't have a post last year.... On my wife's birthday.

Probably forgiveable, actually, as I was flying to SF for my Mixpanel interview.

Sat Jun 23 04:34:31 UTC 2018

Last month, I celebrated planning my day first thing (I get to celebrate that most everyday now), even though I was in SF.

I also started using 4DX terminology like "whirlwind", which I still like talking about. Today was a super whirlwind day, in fact.

Sat Jun 23 04:36:32 UTC 2018

Last week, I noted the desire to start a habit of writing down how fast I run to work. I'm hit-or-miss (and would've forgotten today if not for reviewing that post).

I also note that my review of the past is usually in relation to what I've done today. This remains the truth, and I'm still "good with this". It's actually a large part of the value.

I was struggling with work pomodoros last week, and that remains true this week (though yesterday was super good).

Sat Jun 23 04:40:28 UTC 2018

Yesterday was a solid system day that I'm pretty satisfied with. I'd like to make it a common type of day.

Sat Jun 23 04:42:13 UTC 2018

Today... my attention was fractured. I needed to be better about fitting in pomodoros when I could. As a result, I'm way behind where I wanted to be at this point. I may do some work on the weekend to catch up. But no more than an hour or two (explicitly no more than 4 pomodoros).

Oh, also, I have decided, contrary to one of the posts I reviewed today, that I now have an explicit goal of losing weight. I tore my hands up climbing today, and it's made me think that being lighter will make both running and climbing easier, and I also wouldn't mind being lighter than 200 pounds again. So, I'll be aiming for 2500 caloires a day. This should, I think, lead to about a pound lost per week (as I normally eat about 3000 and have been staying stable there, and 3500 calories is a pound).

Anyways, time to go wind down and spend the last bit of the day with the birthday wife.

Daily Entry: June 21st, 2018

Thu Jun 21 14:13:16 UTC 2018

Had a morning customer call I wanted to dial into, so I'm starting the plan a bit late.

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello DONE
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Digitize hand-written notes SKIPPED
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password DONE
  • Review last year N/A
  • Review last month SKIPPED
  • Review last week SKIPPED
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
  • Review the Day SKIPPED
Thu Jun 21 14:13:54 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2200
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2240
  • 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?
    • No
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0615
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0615
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Getting warmer (gotten use to falling asleep via slightly cold conditions as recommended in "Why We Sleep")
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours 25 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?
    • 1410: 20 minutes
  • 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?
    • @1000 15 mg caffeine (Brew Dr. Kombucha)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 1
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 1930
Fri Jun 22 02:45:49 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @1700: 216.4 lbs
Thu Jun 21 14:28:55 UTC 2018

Protein @0700:

  • Pea protein: 100
  • Banana: 100 (200)

Breakfast @0930:

  • Nuts: 175 (375)
  • Hummus: 150 (525)
  • Black bean chips: 170 (695)
  • Ripple pea milk: 105 (800)
  • Apple: 100 (900)

Lunch @1200:

  • Smashed chickpea sandwich: 600 (1500)
  • Salt and vinegar chips: 220 (1720)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (1820)
  • Mango: 200 (2020)

Snack @1330:

  • Banana: 100 (2120)

Dinner @1800:

  • Banana: 100 (2220)
  • Falafel: 300 (2520)
  • Tortilla: 210 (2730)
  • Vegan cheese: 100 (2830)
  • Potatoes: 150 (2980)
  • Avocado: 200 (3180)

Protein @2100:

  • Pea protein: 100 (3280)
  • Banana: 100 (3380)
Thu Jun 21 14:30:16 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 Laying in bed
0630 Customer call
0700 Pomodoro: Planning
0730 Run to work (23:00)
0800 Start of work routine
0830 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Browsing the Internet
0900 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
0930 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1000 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1030 Buffer
1100 1:1 with mentee
1130 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1200 Interviewee Lunch
1230 Interviewee Lunch
1300 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1330 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1400 NAP
1430 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1500 1:1 with boss
1530 Run home Grab cupcake for average birthday
1600 Stretching/Shower Run home
1630 Pomodoro: 401k Rollover Shower
1700 Pomodoro: Timer remake 401k Rollover
1730 Cooking Eating
1800 Eating Pomodoro: IGDA Admin
1830 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin Pomodoro: Timer Remake
1900 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin Pomodoro: Timer Remake
1930 Pomodoro: End of day review
2000 Gaming: Overwatch
2030 Gaming: Overwatch
2100 End of day routine
2130 Winding down
2200 SLEEP Laying in bed
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Fri Jun 22 02:37:08 UTC 2018

Played with event setup in my timer today. No functional progress. No change to event setup, either. It's a tradeoff, implementation-wise. I think for what I want to implement, using the global event-manager makes sense.

....

Mostly.

It makes sense that the events the timer itself currently emits stay events. E.g. tick, clear, pause. As various arbitrary things may listen to those events (e.g. youtube alarms, pomodoro trackers). But some events I throw because I'm used to that pattern. But no event needs be thrown.

In any case, I think it's better to just go down the road I'm going down, and post-mortem my decisions instead of jumping around between different ones. So tomorrow, back to focusing on getting YouTube alarms in.

Fri Jun 22 02:42:56 UTC 2018

Anyways, I'm already five minutes into my end-of-day review. Consider the above my review of today. Well, part of it. There's more to say if I get to it.

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello DONE
  • JIRA DONE
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password DONE
  • Review last year DONE THIS MORNING
  • Review last month
  • Review last week
  • Review yesterday
  • Review the Day
  • Digitize hand-written notes
Fri Jun 22 02:55:33 UTC 2018

Last month, I made a temporary friend, Jenna. She was cool. I'll never see her again. That's okay.

Also last month, I noted how there were posts in this here diary over a year old, and I was inspired to reflect onposts one year old, one month old, one week old, and one day old every day. I quite like this habit you decided to start, past me. Thank you for starting it (though you forgot about reviewing the previous week for a while).

"The 4 Disciplines of Execution is proving to be a great read in its own right, and ironically may be giving me the framework I need to make serious progress on projects." I believe it indeed gave me the framework I needed.

In fact, just today I thought about how it's great that I developed this habit of collecting data, but I had nothing to focus on improving using that data. 4DX explicitly points out why metrics need goals to drive them else they're really just fun facts. Right now, I have some simple meta goals (more pomodoro per day), and specific project goals. And I now reflect on that data I collect and use it to drive change in my habits to achieve the goals I want.

And it's pretty awesome.

Oh, yeah, last month I was also in SF.

Fri Jun 22 02:57:10 UTC 2018

Last week, I noted how cool it was to see the progress I've made in a week. Still cool. Not as much progress as last time.

Fri Jun 22 03:02:03 UTC 2018

Yesterday, I made a plan to go to work early to get some office-time to myself to be productive. I did get there early, but ended doing some bad browsing habits. Not sure why. Perhaps the morning productivity provides a warm-up, or maybe I actually have the habit of distracting myself at work? In any case, I addressed it and did a solid 6 pomodoros at work. A mere 2 pomodoro away from my long-term stable goal. Though, specifically, my goal will be 40 a week, with some variability allowed day-to-day.

Today was a good day, and I finally rolled over my 401k to Vanguard from my old work account.

In any case, it's time for some Overwatch.

Daily Entry: June 20th, 2018

Wed Jun 20 14:06:04 UTC 2018

It's my birfday! I'm 28. It's starting to look like my 20s will be my best decade of life yet (that'll be the goal for every decade).

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Digitize hand-written notes SKIPPED
  • Update the diary post as necessary SKIPPED
  • Rotate password SKIPPED
  • Review last year SKIPPED
  • Review last month SKIPPED
  • Review last week SKIPPED
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
  • Review the Day SKIPPED
Wed Jun 20 14:07:12 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2200
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2230
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 5 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • 0545: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0615
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0615
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Text at 0545 wishing me a happy birthday
  • 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?
    • 1350: 30 minutes
  • 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?
    • @1000 45 mg caffeine (24 oz decaf soy latte)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 2
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 1930
Wed Jun 20 14:08:24 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0630: 216.6 lbs
  • @0800: 214.8 lbs
Wed Jun 20 14:20:54 UTC 2018

Protein @0630:

  • Pea protein: 100
  • Banana: 100 (200)

Breakfast @0930:

  • Nuts: 175 (375)
  • Hummus: 150 (525)
  • Black bean chips: 170 (695)
  • Ripple pea milk: 105 (800)
  • Apple: 100 (900)

Lunch @1200:

  • El Borracho: 1000 (1900)

Protein @1600:

  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (2000)

Dinner @1830:

  • Mango: 300 (2300)
  • Tortilla: 420 (2720)
  • Falafel: 150 (2870)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (2970)

Protein @2100:

  • Pea protein: 100 (3070)
  • Banana: 100 (3170)
Wed Jun 20 14:23:44 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 Laying in bed
0630 Morning routine
0700 Pomodoro: Planning
0730 Climbing Gym
0800 Climbing Gym
0830 Buffer
0900 Run to work Bus to work
0930 Start of work routine
1000 Pomodoro: Priority Actions Processing Socializing
1030 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Socializing
1100 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1130 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Walk to lunch
1200 Lunch El Borracho
1230 Lunch El Borracho
1300 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Pomodoro: Democratizing Data
1330 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1400 NAP
1430 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1500 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1530 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1600 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1630 Seattle Art Museum SAM closed, random errands
1700 Seattle Art Museum Bus home
1730 Seattle Art Museum Walk
1800 Run home TV: Rick and Morty
1830 Stretching/Shower TV: Rick and Morty
1900 Eating TV: Rick and Morty
1930 Pomodoro: End of day review TV: Rick and Morty
2000 Gaming: Overwatch TV: Rick and Morty
2030 Gaming: Overwatch TV: Rick and Morty
2100 End of day routine Pomodoro: End of day review
2130 Winding down
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Wed Jun 20 17:41:25 UTC 2018

A friend of mine has started making a C++ game with his new ample free time. This has convinced me to also make time to learn C++ game dev stuff. Going to have to subtract some Overwatch from my schedule, I think, as all the other things need to stay in.

So, my hour to Overwatch on M/W/F (except Wednesday/Friday this week for birthday reasons) will now be C++ game dev time.

Wed Jun 20 20:34:05 UTC 2018

I just read Democratizing Data. I made it a pomodoro, because it's content that's very relevant to my work (I'm now on the data management team).

There's also complementary slides.

Building trust in data is the main goal of the data management team. This article is both good reference material to store for later, and something to chew on. Though the technology stack will inevitably be much different.

Thu Jun 21 03:50:24 UTC 2018

End of day review time!

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello DONE
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Digitize hand-written notes SKIPPED
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password SKIPPED
  • Review last year N/A
  • Review last month
  • Review last week
  • Review yesterday
  • Review the Day
Thu Jun 21 04:04:57 UTC 2018

Fresh 27-year-old me didn't bother making a birthday post last year (lazy).

Thu Jun 21 04:10:07 UTC 2018

Last month, I returned home from Vancouver. I believe I also finished The 4 Disciplines of Execution.

Thu Jun 21 04:10:55 UTC 2018

Last week, I went to Vertical World for the first time (I'll go every other Wednesday I think).

I also got my timer to a spot where it counts down from 10. Doesn't take me very long to get it to a much better state. Tomorrow I'll be back to doing timer stuff.

Though, I'm considering rethinking my Tuesdays/Thursdays. I think it'd be better to get to work early (to get some super productive alone-time at the office). I then leave early and get my 2 hours of side-projects when I get home.

I think I'll try that tomorrow.

Thu Jun 21 04:14:20 UTC 2018

Yesterday, I got back from a good two-day work trip to SF.

Thu Jun 21 04:14:58 UTC 2018

And I'm out of time. The planning and the end-of-day pomodoros are really necessary. I'm glad I do them.

Also, the return of Trello to the daily checklist! I actually refer to it a lot now. Instead of sending myself emails for actions, I just make 'em in Trello now. Still got email actions to port over, but weekly review will eventually tackle that.

Daily Entry: June 19th, 2018

Tue Jun 19 15:43:59 UTC 2018

No end of day review yesterday. Probably won't be one today, either.

Got to get as much as I can in during the morning planning.

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler SKIPPED
  • Physical Inbox SKIPPED
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Digitize hand-written notes DONE
    • "Learning to Climb indoors" (book) added to library list
    • "Maximum Climbing" (book) added to library list
    • "Typescript autochecking in vim" added to trello
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password DONE
  • Review last year DONE
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day DONE
Tue Jun 19 15:44:48 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2130
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2200
  • 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?
    • 0300: 5 minutes
    • 0345: 5 minutes
    • 0420: 5 minutes
    • 0500: 5 minutes
    • 0530: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0600
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0600
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Hotel sleep
    • Customer call in morning that I didn't want to miss
    • Strange dreams that I can't remember
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours 20 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?
    • 1400: 20 minutes
  • 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?
    • @0800 45 mg caffeine (24 oz decaf soy latte)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 3
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 2030
Tue Jun 19 15:46:37 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0830: 218.4 lbs
Tue Jun 19 16:01:17 UTC 2018

Breakfast @0800:

  • Bagel: 230
  • Avocado: 300 (530)
  • Carrots: 20 (550)
  • Hummus: 150 (700)
  • Decaf soy latte: 200 (900)
  • Soy milk: 140 (1040)
  • Mango: 300 (1340)

Lunch @1200:

  • Mixpanel lunch: 1000 (2340)

Snack @1500:

  • Wheat thins: 200 (2540)

Dinner @1800:

  • Plant cafe vegan burger: 600 (3140)

Protein @2100:

  • Gluten free pizza: 450 (3590)
  • Tater tots: 300 (3890)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (3990)
Tue Jun 19 16:04:50 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 Morning routine
0630 Packing
0700 Walk to work
0730 Customer call
0800 Customer call
0830 Pomodoro: Planning
0900 Pomodoro: Planning
0930 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Review past diary posts
1000 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1030 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1100 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1130 Buffer Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Pomodoro: Lexicon++ Interrupted
1330 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1400 NAP
1430 Pomodoro: Lexicon++
1500 Post-mortem
1530 Post-mortem
1600 Travel to airport
1630 TSA
1700 Airport
1730 Airport
1800 Boarding
1830 Flight to Seattle
1900 Flight to Seattle
1930 Flight to Seattle
2000 Flight to Seattle
2030 Travel home
2100 End of day routine
2130 Winding down
2200 SLEEP Winding down
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Tue Jun 19 16:36:30 UTC 2018

Last year was the last day of me being 26. Which means that today is the last day of me being 27!

Anyways, I linked to a YouTube video that dismantled a YouTuber called Bill Whitle, who is someone that another YouTuber I'm in contact with (still) called TheDavoo.

I'm still in agreement with a year ago me on these things.

I also think that the "working hard to justify opinions already held" is a generally prevalent problem. Something even I still do, though I work hard to identify when I'm doing it.

Tue Jun 19 16:39:35 UTC 2018

Last month was an unplanned Saturday in Vancouver, WA.

"Eventually I will learn a means of keeping my systems intact when in a new environment." I think I've made progress there, but we'll have to see how I do on vacation.

Tue Jun 19 16:41:33 UTC 2018

Last week, I noted a lot of progress I made on pain points past me noted. I'm still working on pain points noted last week, though. For example, right now I'm not in a pomodoro. I've already spent two on planning, and was hoping I'd finish this well before the end of a third one (I'm getting close to it being worth a third one).

Sometimes I have a lot of stuff to process. Especially when I skip the end of day review and plan on skipping it again. Perhaps three is just fair?

In any case, progress there is slow, but it exists, I think.

Tue Jun 19 16:45:28 UTC 2018

Yesterday was a kickoff of a new project at work. Lots of good thinking done. Now it's time to get work done and iterate on that thinking.

Daily Entry: June 18th, 2018

Mon Jun 18 15:20:47 UTC 2018

I'm still going to do the checklist in SF. Yeah!

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler SKIPPED
  • Physical Inbox SKIPPED
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Digitize hand-written notes N/A
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password SKIPPED
  • Review last year N/A
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day DONE
Mon Jun 18 15:21:07 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2250
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2310
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 5 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • 0345: 5 minutes
    • 0500: 5 minutes
    • 0530: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0600
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0615
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Sleeping in a hotel in SF
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours
  • 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?
    • 1630: 30 minutes
  • 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?
    • @0700 45 mg caffeinae (24 oz decaf soy latte)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 2
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 2000
Mon Jun 18 15:22:22 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0800: 221.6 lbs
  • @2000: 221.6 lbs
Mon Jun 18 15:24:39 UTC 2018

Breakfast @0800:

  • Bagel: 230
  • Avocado: 300 (530)
  • Carrots: 20 (550)
  • Hummus: 150 (700)
  • Decaf soy latte: 200 (900)

Lunch @1200:

  • Mixpanel lunch: 1000 (1900)

Snack @1500:

  • Mango: 300 (2200)
  • Banana: 100 (2300)

Dinner @1900:

  • Flying falafel: 1000 (3300)
Mon Jun 18 15:29:34 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 Laying in bed
0630 Walk to work
0700 Starbucks
0730 Aimless browsing
0800 Breakfast
0830 Pomodoro: Planning
0900 Lexicon++ Kickoff Pomodoro: Table Cleanup
0930 Lexicon++ Kickoff Pomodoro: Table Cleanup Pomodoro: Reading
1000 Lexicon++ Kickoff
1030 Lexicon++ Kickoff
1100 Lexicon++ Kickoff
1130 Lexicon++ Kickoff
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Lexicon++ Kickoff
1330 Lexicon++ Kickoff
1400 Lexicon++ Kickoff
1430 Lexicon++ Kickoff
1500 Lexicon++ Kickoff
1530 NAP Full-screen settings meeting
1600 Pomodoro: Personal plan Full-screen settings meeting
1630 Pomodoro: End of day review NAP
1700 Flying falafel Engineering meeting
1730 Flying falafel Engineering meeting
1800 Hanging with SF friend
1830 Hanging with SF friend
1900 Hanging with SF friend Flying falafel
1930 Hanging with SF friend Aimless meandering
2000 Hanging with SF friend Aimless meandering
2030 Hanging with SF friend Walk to hotel
2100 Back to hotel End of day routine
2130 End of day routine TV: YouTube
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Mon Jun 18 15:34:20 UTC 2018

Last month, I had a work from Vancouver day. Could've been more productive. Had a good hike with my sister and my wife in the evening, though.

Mon Jun 18 15:36:39 UTC 2018

Last week, I started noticing an inability to stop what I started. I want to finish things, but some things are long term and I need to find a good place to pause.

Still working on that.

Mon Jun 18 15:38:29 UTC 2018

Yesterday was a lot of things:

  • Wife's day
  • Father's day
  • travel to SF day

Managed to juggle the responsibilities of the day pretty well.

Also, noticed a problem with my new timer. The bottom row of numbers was "1 2 3" instead of "7 8 9". That's fixed now, though.

Mon Jun 18 15:40:25 UTC 2018

Here's hoping to a good kickoff on my work project for the foreseeable future!

Mon Jun 18 16:44:01 UTC 2018

Reading Making Web Components Work, an article about panel (used at work and I'm using it on my projects), and now I'm thinking I'm probably doing it wrong for my timer. I'm sending events everywhere.

I'll get my timer to its MVP state and then I'll try and fix the implementation.

Daily Entry: June 17th, 2018

Sun Jun 17 14:30:39 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Digitize hand-written notes N/A
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Rotate password DONE
  • Review last year DONE
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
  • Review the Day SKIPPED
Sun Jun 17 14:30:56 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2200
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2230
  • 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?
    • 0530: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0600
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0630
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • No
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours 20 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?
    • 1630: 30 minutes
  • 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?
    • @1000 30 mg caffeine (20 oz decaf soy latte)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 8
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 1930
Sun Jun 17 14:31:39 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0630: 217.4 lbs

(I probably underestimated calories yesterday)

Sun Jun 17 14:35:03 UTC 2018

Cheat day (lots of eating, lost track, no calorie-counting).

Sun Jun 17 14:36:40 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 Laying in bed
0630 Morning routine
0700 Browsing Internet
0730 Pomodoro: Planning
0800 Pomodoro: Timer Remake
0830 Pomodoro: Timer Remake
0900 Day belongs to wife Chilling
0930 Day belongs to wife Chilling
1000 Day belongs to wife Walk to Starbucks
1030 Day belongs to wife Chilling
1100 Day belongs to wife Chilling
1130 Day belongs to wife Walk home
1200 Day belongs to wife Grocery shopping
1230 Day belongs to wife Veggie Grill
1300 Day belongs to wife Cook popcorn
1330 Day belongs to wife Movie: Annihilation
1400 NAP Movie: Annihilation
1430 Packing Movie: Annihilation
1500 Packing Movie: Annihilation
1530 Day belongs to wife Laundry
1600 Day belongs to wife Laundry
1630 Pomodoro: End of day review NAP
1700 Day belongs to wife YouTube: Overwatch
1730 Travel to airport YouTube: Overwatch
1800 Travel to airport
1830 Airport
1900 Airport
1930 Flying to SF
2000 Flying to SF
2030 Flying to SF
2100 Flying to SF NAP
2130 Flying to SF NAP
2200 Travel to hotel
2230 Winding down
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Sun Jun 17 14:50:09 UTC 2018

Last year, I had some choice words on "social trial" and "innocent until proven guilty": "And in this case, assuming Cosby's innocence is assuming many others of being liars to a criminal level. If we're pretending that social opinion is a crime, both the accuser and the accused are on trial. There is no real neutral ground. So I'm going to form an informed opinion, and when I don't have enough information, I'm going to side with those with less resources and/or a lack of proper representation or power. Chances are they're not criminals, they're oppressed."

Sun Jun 17 14:51:20 UTC 2018

Last month, I said something that applies to today: "Always interesting to see my weight be higher after a day where I ate a lot of food. I understand that it's not actual weight gain, but it's a good feedback mechanism none-the-less."

I also got pooped on by a bird, but didn't note that (I remember because it was the day I picked up the rental car to go to Vancouver, WA).

Sun Jun 17 14:54:10 UTC 2018

A week ago, the wife and I went to wayward vegan cafe. I also helped a person with their pygame stuff.

Sun Jun 17 15:42:47 UTC 2018

I have a pomodoro button on the new timer.

This means it is time to work on making YouTube alarms again. But this time there can be an alarm for any arbitrary time.