Daily review 07-24-20

How did your goals turn out today?

Be organized.

My Things is organized at least. I generally don’t have enough time (or energy, I guess) to do enough things that are of my core list of todos anyways, so completely setting up my Things lists on a weekday at least doesn’t matter a whole lot.

Do my best on all my commitments.

Finished most of the work on the design doc for Amazon, and also worked closely with file to get a POC for the lambda functionality as well.

Be practically independent.

Nothing too much in this regard. Talked with Mulan, later at night, about long-term plans - what I’m thinking about doing after college, from a career perspective, and she said something that struck me - The future is coming up fast.” Kind of scary. Going to

Grow grow grow.

Read a lot of blog posts - one about how morality developed through evolution and social dynamics, one about India/Jio/four corners of the internet, one about the four different types of people (passive/agressive, conformist/independent), and also a lot of posts by Linus (thesephist.com), holy shit this guy creates SO MUCH SHIT. Pretty intimidating.

Develop my social network.

Had a good social time with the Amazon group!

Be a good son/brother/boyfriend/friend

Didn’t talk a whole lot with parents, but told them that I wanted to talk about housing stuff over the weekend, so I’ll do that.

Contribute to the world

Going to work on the productivity decal stuff this weekend!

Be more forward-thinking

I’ve recognized that early in the morning on Saturdays is an excellent time for me to work on far-reaching projects and big goals that I haven’t gotten a chance to dig into yet.

Be more disciplined

I definitely know that if someone is standing at my head, or if I’m in a meeting or something, I can work for hours at a time if that’s how it works out. The thing to figure out is how to make sure I’m productive when I don’t have ny kind of supervision. Today, I played a Lott of Hearthstone, it got pretty hard to control sometimes. The other interesting thing about is that I don’t associate it with any part of my identity at all. If people asked me what I’m currently doing, my instinct isn’t to say that I’m playing a lot of Battlegrounds and spending close to 45 min per day (probably more) watching Battlegrounds as well. That’s how little it means to me personally, but I’m still spending so much time on it? Seems like there’s other things that I still have to study/take a look at.

Be physically healthy.

Tried to do an HICT, but my phone got caught in the sofa and then I got kind of frustrated, and stopped doing it.

Any other thoughts?


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Date
February 22, 2023