Monthly review: June 2015
Posted: - Modified: | monthly, reviewLots of sleep and fuzzy-brain this month, which was a good excuse to learn more about both. I still got a decent amount of coding done, focusing on Angular and D3 for personal projects, and digging deeper into SQL and Bluemix for consulting. I also built a small Tasker + Javascript interface for my tracking things. It’s pretty convenient, although not totally reliable (Tasker weirds out sometimes).
June was heavy on the academics for J-. We helped her with her blackjack game programming project, physics review, English presentation, and university planning. It got me thinking about my processes for solving problems and revising presentations. Anyway, she made it through to summer, and is now working at her first job.
Also, lots of video gaming this month – W-‘s influence on me, plus a resolution to take things super-easy and go into hermit mode. I completed the main storylines for Ni no Kuni, LEGO Hobbit, and LEGO Jurassic Park. Now W- and I are working our (separate) ways through Persona 1. I could probably redirect some of the time I spend gaming to, say, reading or coding, but my reading and coding time seem pretty all right too. Time is not the limiting factor here. Although maybe I can allocate some more time to drawing, and then sit with the vagueness of thought a little longer…
Summer fruits, yum!
Blog posts
- Reviews
- Tech
- Thinking
- Emacs
- Experiment
- Life
Sketches
- Daily:
- Reviews
- 2015-06-02b May 2015 -- index card #monthly
- 2015-06-08a Week ending 2015-06-05 -- index card #journal #weekly
- 2015-06-14c Week ending 2015-06-12 -- index card #journal #weekly
- 2015-06-22a Monday -- index card #journal
- 2015-07-02b Week ending 2015-06-26 -- index card #journal #weekly
- 2015-07-06d Week ending 2015-07-03 -- index card #journal #weekly
- Problem-solving
- 2015-06-09e What do I mean by sequencing -- index card #learning #problem-solving #sequencing
- 2015-06-09f How do I develop my own sequencing skills -- index card #learning #problem-solving #sequencing
- 2015-06-09g How can I help other people develop sequencing skills -- index card #learning #problem-solving #sequencing
- 2015-06-09h Sequencing challenges -- index card #learning #problem-solving #sequencing #challenges
- 2015-06-09i Non-programming examples of sequencing -- index card #learning #problem-solving #sequencing
- 2015-06-11a Blackjack implementation sequence -- index card #sequencing #problem-solving
- Quantified Self
- 2015-06-05b Quantified Self and effect on psychology -- index card #quantified #psychology
- 2015-06-08e What do I want from time visualizations -- index card #quantified #visualization #d3
- 2015-06-15c Visualization sketches -- index card #visualization #pda #coding #quantified
- 2015-06-16e What do I really want from visualizations -- index card #groceries #quantified #visualization
- 2015-06-19e Analyzing my groceries -- index card #groceries #quantified #visualization
- 2015-06-20b Cleaning grocery data -- index card #quantified #data #analysis
- Experiment
- 2015-06-08c What could make this even awesomer -- index card #life #kaizen
- 2015-06-09a Designing my mornings -- index card #kaizen #mornings #life
- 2015-06-11c Designing days around feelings -- index card #experiment #life #progress #feelings
- 2015-06-26b Building up from the basics -- index card #life
- 2015-06-09c Reflecting on the paths not taken -- index card #experiment
- 2015-06-12a Questions to revisit -- index card #kaizen #experiment #delegation
- 2015-06-12e Thinking about disrupting myself -- index card #experiment #disruption
- 2015-06-15g Re-evaluating my experiment failure mode -- index card #experiment #failure #equanimity #premortem #narrative
- Fuzziness
- 2015-06-01d Looking closer at energy levels -- index card #fuzzy #energy #fatigue
- 2015-06-01e Fragmented writing and drawing -- index card #fuzzy #fatigue #writing #drawing #fragmentation
- 2015-06-07b Just in case, what would I like to do even better next time around -- index card #fuzzy
- 2015-06-07c Absent-mindedly misplacing things -- index card #fuzzy #absentmindedness
- 2015-06-01b On pauses in writing -- index card #writing #fatigue
- Philosophy
- 2015-06-12b Finding my own balance between desire and detachment -- index card #stoicism #philosophy #detachment #desire
- 2015-06-12c Exploring this distance -- index card #stoicism #philosophy #detachment #desire
- 2015-06-12d When I don't prefer something as much as I think I should -- index card #stoicism #philosophy #preference
- 2015-06-17c On transience -- index card #transience #reflection
- 2015-06-07e The Glad Game -- index card #happiness #flexibility #equanimity
- 2015-06-19a Moving past getting things done -- index card #present #mindset #being
- 2015-06-19c The gap between who I am and who I wish I was -- index card #gap #mindset
- 2015-06-19d Maybe the delta is okay -- index card #gap #mindset
- Learning
- 2015-06-12f Learning more effectively -- index card #kaizen #learning
- 2015-06-12g Current areas of learning -- index card #learning #plans
- 2015-06-19b Visual metaphors for learning -- index card #drawing #learning
- 2015-06-15b Notes from helping with physics -- index card #physics #math #tutoring #j- #family #science #teaching #school
- 2015-06-09j Revamping a speech -- index card #editing #presentation #speaking #schoolwork
- Drawing
- 2015-06-01c Pork belly -- index card #cooking
- 2015-06-07d Garden -- index card #gardening
- 2015-06-08d Friends -- index card #tv #twenties
- 2015-06-09b What do I want to build for my future self -- index card #future-self #tech-and-home
- 2015-06-09d Reflecting on positive noes -- index card #assertiveness
- 2015-06-12i Imagining an index card browsing interface -- index card #index-card #zettelkasten #browsing #visualization
- 2015-06-14b What do I want this next little while to be like -- index card #plans
- 2015-06-15d Imagining tweaks for my library tool -- index card #pda #library
- 2015-06-15e Past-present-future balance -- index card #balance
- 2015-06-15f What would more present-focus look like -- index card #present
- 2015-06-16b Minimizing plans -- index card #planning #present #stress
- 2015-06-16c Notes on LEGO games -- index cards #lego #gaming
- 2015-06-17a Sitting with fiction -- index card #reading
- 2015-06-17b Thinking about what I enjoy reading -- index card #reading
- 2015-06-20c Other things I like reading -- index card #reading
- 2015-06-21b Photos -- index card #photos
- 2015-06-21c Untangling the past -- index card #reflection #past
- 2015-06-24a Summer -- index card #summer #seasons
- 2015-06-24b What do I want to tweak this summer -- index card #summer #seasons
- 2015-06-24c What does this moment feel like -- index card #limbo #quiet
- 2015-06-26c Shifting time windows -- index card #planning #living
Time
Category | Last month (%) | This month (%) | Avg h per week | Delta (h/wk) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sleep | 35.1 | 39.7 | 67 | 7.7 |
Discretionary – Play | 10.8 | 13.7 | 23 | 4.9 |
Discretionary – Family | 3.0 | 4.5 | 8 | 2.5 |
Business – Earn | 3.9 | 4.6 | 8 | 1.2 |
Personal | 16.1 | 15.9 | 27 | -0.3 |
Discretionary – Social | 1.6 | 0.9 | 2 | -1.2 |
Business – Connect | 1.3 | 0.6 | 1 | -1.2 |
Unpaid work | 9.2 | 7.5 | 13 | -2.9 |
Business – Build | 10.5 | 7.8 | 13 | -4.5 |
Discretionary – Productive | 8.4 | 4.9 | 8 | -5.9 |
Oookay. Lots more sleep this month, and lots more gaming. Still, lots of coding despite the drop in Discretionary – Productive…