I’m taking a few minutes now to write what comes to mind, reflect on my day, plan, organize, blah blah blah.
(1) Tomorrow I will record the amount of time I spend reading and what site I was on (or book / physical reference material if not on a computer / is offline but on a computer) using a stopwatch. I want to know how much time I spend reading what and where I read it.
(2) I am taking a temporary break from Hacker News, the next time I’m allowing myself to go there and mine for dopamine (I mean, search for novel and cool things) is Monday the 28th at 14:30.
(3) Observation: the Hammertime sequence looks very cool and quite helpful, I’ve noticed that I think about doing it from time to time but have never made the commitment. Does anyone want to group up and do the Hammertime sequence together? If so, let me know! I’ll be asking around, doesn’t seem like the kind of thing I’d get much traction with nor much benefit out of if I did it alone.
(4) I didn’t read very much today outside of some doom scrolling. Tomorrow, I’ll be reading the newly published issue, “Escape”, of my friend’s journal, you can find it here: https://thesacredconspiracy.com/journal/ ; I will be writing a summary and/or review for each entry in the issue and for the issue as a whole!
(5) TODO:
(5a) Email and message the people I’ve been meaning to get back to or reach out to. Due on the 24th by noon.
(5b) Complete the below mentioned task (re: edit comment and then post it on adamzerner’s “Writing to think” post) by 16:00 tomorrow (the 23rd).
(5c) Tomorrow: Spend 15 minutes looking for tech or political jobs in Seattle (or full remote). Spend an additional 15 minutes after that inspecting UW’s graduate programs.
(5d) Tomorrow: Go outside for 30 minutes, it doesn’t matter too much what as long as I move / do some activity and get sunlight.
(5e) Remind myself that todo lists are good, but don’t write endless todo lists or else they become overwhelming and get ignored. Reminder will occur at noon.
(5f) Schedule next Houston Rationalists meetup, choose either 29 or 30 Dec in the evening. Make sure to inform members about the LW/EA New Year’s Ultra Party (https://www.facebook.com/events/678804856145168)
(6) LW Stuff:
(6a) Over the next few days scan through the nominated posts (2019 Review) and select 5 of them.
(6b) Read those selected 5 thoroughly and write thorough, good reviews of at least 3 of them.
(6c) Finish doing that stuff and post those reviews on LW in the appropriate places by January 4. That way I have more time to write more reviews later if I want to!
(6d) Reread everything here and take notes while doing so: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6MEB6P5hNxrgmcpyP/before-rationality-a-snapshot
(6e) After rereading that stuff, figure out what earlier snapshots I can recall but at the very least put together a snapshot of where I’m at currently then list “how I want to improve, where I want to go” and so on. I really like jospus321′s idea of doing rationality snapshots, and want to participate in doing that.
(6f) There is something else, but I can’t remember it right now. It’ll come back to me at some point.
(8) Tomorrow’s shortform is not allowed to make use of numbered nor bulleted lists nor strings of words formatted similarly to lists. Today was for lists and tomorrow isn’t. I don’t know why, but that’s what I’ve decided.
This shortform took longer than a few minutes and is made out of lists for some reason, that’s okay! I’m happy I took the time to write :)
I’m taking a few minutes now to write what comes to mind, reflect on my day, plan, organize, blah blah blah.
(1) Tomorrow I will record the amount of time I spend reading and what site I was on (or book / physical reference material if not on a computer / is offline but on a computer) using a stopwatch. I want to know how much time I spend reading what and where I read it.
(2) I am taking a temporary break from Hacker News, the next time I’m allowing myself to go there and mine for dopamine (I mean, search for novel and cool things) is Monday the 28th at 14:30.
(3) Observation: the Hammertime sequence looks very cool and quite helpful, I’ve noticed that I think about doing it from time to time but have never made the commitment. Does anyone want to group up and do the Hammertime sequence together? If so, let me know! I’ll be asking around, doesn’t seem like the kind of thing I’d get much traction with nor much benefit out of if I did it alone.
(4) I didn’t read very much today outside of some doom scrolling. Tomorrow, I’ll be reading the newly published issue, “Escape”, of my friend’s journal, you can find it here: https://thesacredconspiracy.com/journal/ ; I will be writing a summary and/or review for each entry in the issue and for the issue as a whole!
(5) TODO: (5a) Email and message the people I’ve been meaning to get back to or reach out to. Due on the 24th by noon. (5b) Complete the below mentioned task (re: edit comment and then post it on adamzerner’s “Writing to think” post) by 16:00 tomorrow (the 23rd). (5c) Tomorrow: Spend 15 minutes looking for tech or political jobs in Seattle (or full remote). Spend an additional 15 minutes after that inspecting UW’s graduate programs. (5d) Tomorrow: Go outside for 30 minutes, it doesn’t matter too much what as long as I move / do some activity and get sunlight. (5e) Remind myself that todo lists are good, but don’t write endless todo lists or else they become overwhelming and get ignored. Reminder will occur at noon. (5f) Schedule next Houston Rationalists meetup, choose either 29 or 30 Dec in the evening. Make sure to inform members about the LW/EA New Year’s Ultra Party (https://www.facebook.com/events/678804856145168)
(6) LW Stuff: (6a) Over the next few days scan through the nominated posts (2019 Review) and select 5 of them. (6b) Read those selected 5 thoroughly and write thorough, good reviews of at least 3 of them. (6c) Finish doing that stuff and post those reviews on LW in the appropriate places by January 4. That way I have more time to write more reviews later if I want to! (6d) Reread everything here and take notes while doing so: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6MEB6P5hNxrgmcpyP/before-rationality-a-snapshot (6e) After rereading that stuff, figure out what earlier snapshots I can recall but at the very least put together a snapshot of where I’m at currently then list “how I want to improve, where I want to go” and so on. I really like jospus321′s idea of doing rationality snapshots, and want to participate in doing that. (6f) There is something else, but I can’t remember it right now. It’ll come back to me at some point.
(7) I found out about bagpipe jazz today and this has made me INCREDIBLY HAPPY. Go forth and listen to some bagpipe jazz, it’s wonderful, Rufus Harley is great: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Sjo4mlzIJ8HHmJLq2hPZg?si=DaSW5kF8RwSuYF_wxeLr5g ; “Feeling Good” is probably my favorite song from that album so far, it’s fantastic!
(8) Tomorrow’s shortform is not allowed to make use of numbered nor bulleted lists nor strings of words formatted similarly to lists. Today was for lists and tomorrow isn’t. I don’t know why, but that’s what I’ve decided.
This shortform took longer than a few minutes and is made out of lists for some reason, that’s okay! I’m happy I took the time to write :)
Note to self, since I have the markdown editor activated, I can make my posts more nicely formatted by actually using markdown. Time to print out my favorite markdown cheatsheet: https://rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rmarkdown-cheatsheet.pdf