Very simply, a status update on my ongoing commitments, plus a short deadline list.
Media Commitment: This goes well! I am barely watching two movies a week, have not watched YouTube except for purely time sensitive educational purposes, and haven’t watched TV at all. My worry about binging comics hasn’t been vindicated, as I’ve acquired several new comics but am actually going through them pretty slowly.
Regular sleep habit commitment: This was going well until the awful stress storm of this week where I have changed my sleep or wake times not longer than plus or minus thirty minutes at least two nights this week. I’m considering that a bit of an exception, but I intend to return to fully consistent sleep & wake times after I’ve made it past a few upcoming deadlines. Note that I will not allow plus or minus sleep time changes greater than one hour no matter way.
Beingness commitment: in Shortform #114, I made a commitment to take more unstructured time to myself and just relax. Last night I cancelled co-working plans and watched a movie and didn’t do any work at all, it was great. I have less time tonight, but I will take some time to chill before bed. This commitment is the most difficult commitment for me to follow-through on at this time, but I will ensure I do, because if I don’t, I get mindkilled or worse for some amount of time. I do feel I’m at risk for minor burnout and will do whatever is necessary to heal and avoid that burnout.
Deadlines:
IT certification exams x 2: these will be taken and passed by the end of this month. This is a huge source of stress, I’ve been studying for a few months and feel decently prepared, but I will definitely feel a lot of relief once I’m done with those exams and have obtained the cert I’m going for.
Launching immortalityisgreat.com by August 28th. I’ve created a Substack and am tidying it up + writing my first post. Thank you to Austin Chen of Manifold Markets for critiquing my original plan for the site, I have pivoted based on that conversation we had.
Done: schedule ACX Meetups Everywhere for Norfolk VA. This was completed on Monday, yay!
Norfolk Rationality Dojo: tentative first workshop is on August 28th, but it may be deliberately a very closed session with no more than 4 attendees to beta test it.
Apply for funding: I am working at least 10 hours a week on Rationalist organizing and that number keeps threatening to go up. I would like to increase how much I’m working on organizing and the value-add I can provide, having funding would be instrumental to both those goals. I will apply for funding this weekend, even if it’s a small amount, it will help.
Yes I also work full time. I may need to reevaluate priorities & what I’m doing next month if I end up not being able to make time for beingness, because such a situation wouldn’t be very sustainable for long.
Shortform #116 Commitments Check-In
Very simply, a status update on my ongoing commitments, plus a short deadline list.
Media Commitment: This goes well! I am barely watching two movies a week, have not watched YouTube except for purely time sensitive educational purposes, and haven’t watched TV at all. My worry about binging comics hasn’t been vindicated, as I’ve acquired several new comics but am actually going through them pretty slowly.
Regular sleep habit commitment: This was going well until the awful stress storm of this week where I have changed my sleep or wake times not longer than plus or minus thirty minutes at least two nights this week. I’m considering that a bit of an exception, but I intend to return to fully consistent sleep & wake times after I’ve made it past a few upcoming deadlines. Note that I will not allow plus or minus sleep time changes greater than one hour no matter way.
Beingness commitment: in Shortform #114, I made a commitment to take more unstructured time to myself and just relax. Last night I cancelled co-working plans and watched a movie and didn’t do any work at all, it was great. I have less time tonight, but I will take some time to chill before bed. This commitment is the most difficult commitment for me to follow-through on at this time, but I will ensure I do, because if I don’t, I get mindkilled or worse for some amount of time. I do feel I’m at risk for minor burnout and will do whatever is necessary to heal and avoid that burnout.
Deadlines:
IT certification exams x 2: these will be taken and passed by the end of this month. This is a huge source of stress, I’ve been studying for a few months and feel decently prepared, but I will definitely feel a lot of relief once I’m done with those exams and have obtained the cert I’m going for.
Launching immortalityisgreat.com by August 28th. I’ve created a Substack and am tidying it up + writing my first post. Thank you to Austin Chen of Manifold Markets for critiquing my original plan for the site, I have pivoted based on that conversation we had.
Done: schedule ACX Meetups Everywhere for Norfolk VA. This was completed on Monday, yay!
Norfolk Rationality Dojo: tentative first workshop is on August 28th, but it may be deliberately a very closed session with no more than 4 attendees to beta test it.
Apply for funding: I am working at least 10 hours a week on Rationalist organizing and that number keeps threatening to go up. I would like to increase how much I’m working on organizing and the value-add I can provide, having funding would be instrumental to both those goals. I will apply for funding this weekend, even if it’s a small amount, it will help.
Yes I also work full time. I may need to reevaluate priorities & what I’m doing next month if I end up not being able to make time for beingness, because such a situation wouldn’t be very sustainable for long.