These are mostly activities you already know are worthwhile for you? I’ve done similar and while I think I have a decent chance at understanding what’s helpful without actually trying all subsets (or greedy leave-one-out or add-one-in), I’ve been confused when I periodically ponder what I should keep doing.
It’s interesting that nothing (except 2 miles running and pushups) is less than 30 minutes. I’ve favored 15 minutes but that might be too short.
20 sessions of dual n-back and 1000 words of writing feel like they take a long time but I’d be surprised if they took 30 minutes or more in reality. 300 ab lounger crunches takes less than 10 minutes.
Honestly the highest value thing on that list is probably the 45 minutes of IA research, followed by the 30 minutes of email and outreach. Everything else is more about cultivating the self-image of someone who consistently does things to make themself more awesome. In so doing I hope to gain an aura of competence, after which I’ll be more effective at doing whatever it is I want to do. (Currently, that is to contribute significantly to SIAI’s IA division when I get back to California.)
Nitpick: the default settings in Brainworkshop, one of the more popular DNB implementations, take 72 seconds per session for a minimum of 24 minutes for 20 sessions. Adding in saccading between sessions (20-30 seconds) or tweaking options could add in still more time.
These are mostly activities you already know are worthwhile for you? I’ve done similar and while I think I have a decent chance at understanding what’s helpful without actually trying all subsets (or greedy leave-one-out or add-one-in), I’ve been confused when I periodically ponder what I should keep doing.
It’s interesting that nothing (except 2 miles running and pushups) is less than 30 minutes. I’ve favored 15 minutes but that might be too short.
20 sessions of dual n-back and 1000 words of writing feel like they take a long time but I’d be surprised if they took 30 minutes or more in reality. 300 ab lounger crunches takes less than 10 minutes.
Honestly the highest value thing on that list is probably the 45 minutes of IA research, followed by the 30 minutes of email and outreach. Everything else is more about cultivating the self-image of someone who consistently does things to make themself more awesome. In so doing I hope to gain an aura of competence, after which I’ll be more effective at doing whatever it is I want to do. (Currently, that is to contribute significantly to SIAI’s IA division when I get back to California.)
Nitpick: the default settings in Brainworkshop, one of the more popular DNB implementations, take 72 seconds per session for a minimum of 24 minutes for 20 sessions. Adding in saccading between sessions (20-30 seconds) or tweaking options could add in still more time.
24 minutes is pretty close to 30 minutes.