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# Airtable diary: 08-23-22

uid: 202208230800 tags: #airtable #journal

Startup routine:

  • Ran morning

Things I did:

things:///show?id=logbook&filter=Work

Things I need to do:

  • Do the server-side profiling, as per Keunwoo
  • [~] Finish drafting the PR for making the nonExtendedPeriod feature flag apply to workspaces.
  • [~] Draft a PR for the applicationDestroy support panel crud request.
  • Figure out what’s going on with shard assignments. - Shard assignments stats pages 202208230924
  • [~] Change mysql message poller so that the connection creation is resilient to read replica failures.
  • [~] Add more crud requests to the shard assignments scaling & resiliency test.
  • Message Junyi about the composite connection abstraction

February 22, 2023

Starting Principles

Source: https://www.julian.com/blog/starting-principles

  • Be good to your future self by prioritizing what compounds: capital investment, relationships, audience building, discipline, and self-reflectiveness.
  • Try to have things in your life as connected (loopy) as possible. See things from many different perspectives, using many different lenses, show them to many different people, and you’ll grow and gain so much more from them.
  • The process is the reward.

uid: 202207171823 tags: #productivity #living-well

February 22, 2023

Favor interrogative-led questions

Favor interrogative-led questions over leading questions. A leading question attempts to get the listener to agree or disagree with a premise you feed to them.

An interrogative-led question often begins with the words: who; where; what; when; why.

Imagine the responses to these two questions:

  • “Did you like the movie?” (Leading)

  • “What did you think about the movie?” (Interrogative-led)

How do each of these questions make you feel? How comfortable would you be saying something you think would displease the asker in each case. What kind of responses are possible/likely in each case?

This is one of the high-leverage ideas that changed my life (and could yours too) 202207101325

Related: How to ask good questions 202207041750

uid: 202207101703 tags: #insights

February 22, 2023

# Do the work.

source: https://ift.tt/x7gI1OB tags: #literature #productivity #advice uid: 202207101531 —

Do the work. That’s all the productivity advice you need and the only useful productivity advice you’ll ever get. You can direct your attention to a million optimizations— email, meetings, notes, calendar, time tracking, goals, to-do lists, time estimates, prioritization frameworks, quantified self sensors, analytics, apps, documents, and journaling. But don’t. Ignore all this, and do the work. When you do the work, everything else optimizes itself.

I need to keep this in mind for my article about high-leverage ideas that could change your life 202207101325.

February 22, 2023

Should you store all your thoughts in one place?

I’ve gone back and forth on this.

Arguments for aggregation:

  1. Things are easy to find, especially if the app you’re using has good search functionality.
    1. The app becomes an extension of your brain.
  2. It’s less likely that you’ll forget about things.

Arguments for diversification:

  1. Different tools are useful for different things. Only writing/storing ideas in one app can make your thinking fit the contours of the medium.
  2. Whenever I haven’t used an app for a while and I go and open it, I’m filled with a sense of wonder and curiosity. I want to go see what kinds of things I wrote about when I used to use the app, injecting me with a jolt of positive energy. If I move everything to one tool, I miss out on those kinds of moments.

Created from: Different Note-Taking Software Are Better For Different Use Cases 202204102005

uid: 202207101525 tags: #blog-ideas

February 22, 2023

202207101325 Things I could write about (in the post of ideas that could change your life)

  1. Time and mental energy are your most valuable resources.
  2. Writing / sharing your ideas is the best of knowing that you’ve fully understood something.
  3. https://mattlakeman.org/2020/10/06/thoughts-on-meaning-and-writing/ See notes from this article
  4. Structured procrastination
  5. Everyone is awkward.
  6. Completion-based planning 202207052007
  7. Go For Big Wins Rather Than Small Improvements 202210031316
  8. Being able to remember what you did is what gives meaning to life 202210031413
  9. Knowing how to search for things on the internet.

This could be a post of itself, but as of now, add to the list of ideas that could change your life

From Drafts

uid: 202207101325 tags: #drafts #productivity #insights #blog-ideas #living-well

February 22, 2023