Shortform #55 Alons-y; Hammertime Day 1 - Bug Hunt
I spent the first ~10 minutes of my workday creating my day’s agenda. It turns out that setting a timer for 10 minutes before doing any work for the day to create an agenda for the day is a most excellent and helpful ritual, so I’m doing that from here on out.
I scheduled very aggressively and didn’t leave buffer time, so tomorrow I’ll add 5-10 minutes of buffer time between each non-travel-required / other unavoidable time sink item on my schedule and see if that’s enough. Despite the no buffer time and multiple hour+ family interruptions or time spending, I managed to stick to my daily agenda reasonably well, adhered to my media diet successfully, and got a lot of work done. Including day 1 of the Hammertime sequence!
I set 5 minute timers for each prompt (see the lesson and after 30 minutes (there are 6 prompts) I had written out about 128 bugs into a spreadsheet (I’m using LibreOffice Calc and will try to use the same spreadsheet with different pages / tabs for the whole Hammertime sequence for ease of data input and management). This was helpful! I will finish sorting the bugs by difficulty, category / similarity, urgentness, importance, and context (the latter 3 factors were added after discussing with my group earlier tonight) before bed or tomorrow first thing. I used a 5 point difficulty scale instead of 10, because a 5 point difficulty scale feels more informative to me than a 10 point scale.
I voraciously consumed Liber Augmen during my lunch break and finished that book. Lots to think about there, I strongly endorse reading that book and will be writing about it here in my shortforms soon.
Shortform #55 Alons-y; Hammertime Day 1 - Bug Hunt
I spent the first ~10 minutes of my workday creating my day’s agenda. It turns out that setting a timer for 10 minutes before doing any work for the day to create an agenda for the day is a most excellent and helpful ritual, so I’m doing that from here on out.
I scheduled very aggressively and didn’t leave buffer time, so tomorrow I’ll add 5-10 minutes of buffer time between each non-travel-required / other unavoidable time sink item on my schedule and see if that’s enough. Despite the no buffer time and multiple hour+ family interruptions or time spending, I managed to stick to my daily agenda reasonably well, adhered to my media diet successfully, and got a lot of work done. Including day 1 of the Hammertime sequence!
I set 5 minute timers for each prompt (see the lesson and after 30 minutes (there are 6 prompts) I had written out about 128 bugs into a spreadsheet (I’m using LibreOffice Calc and will try to use the same spreadsheet with different pages / tabs for the whole Hammertime sequence for ease of data input and management). This was helpful! I will finish sorting the bugs by difficulty, category / similarity, urgentness, importance, and context (the latter 3 factors were added after discussing with my group earlier tonight) before bed or tomorrow first thing. I used a 5 point difficulty scale instead of 10, because a 5 point difficulty scale feels more informative to me than a 10 point scale.
I voraciously consumed Liber Augmen during my lunch break and finished that book. Lots to think about there, I strongly endorse reading that book and will be writing about it here in my shortforms soon.
A good day :)
Cheers,
Willa