#timeblocking
Aside: There’s a few advantages to scheduling the day, this way, on paper
- You *intentionally* decide a blocks of time to work daily . (i will work from 7-12 and then from 4-8) and then you *intentionally* decide what you will do with that time
- You get more done. You do better quality work.
- you can fill in gaps of time (like the tasks above)
- you decide what you will do according to the energy you think yiou have at various times of the day
- when you run yoeur day off a plan like this, you know what you’re expected to be doing at any moment. you’ll be less likely to be distracted because you know you’ll fall behind
- you get a real sense of how long work *actually* takes. you might decide the report takes only an hour, but when you are constantly over shooting by 30m every day, you know a block takes 90m on average, and you’ll plan accordingly. you have to face that reality
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#TimeBlocking
- You might realise as you plan, there there are lots of tiny miscellaneous tasks you might want to do. for example you can’t write 5 tasks in tiny 30m box
- In that case, just give the box a descriptive header (Errands or Social Catchup or Communications or Tasks), and also give it a number.
- Then a bit further to the right, write the number down and elaborate what is happening in that block (of time)
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#TimeBlocking
First up: Daily Pages
Have a two page spread.
Right hand side
- Date on the top
- Left margin, mark hours you will work, down the page at regular intervals
- Start making boxes with the work you have to do. e.g. 9-10 report / 10-11 email and so on and so forth
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still with the flu and the sniffles
so i don’t quite know what to do with my day
hmm. watching Cal Newport ideas on #TimeBlocking seems to be a good idea.
I’ll make notes
I need to do this so that I can figure out how to do multiple cognitive tasks, in some sane manner. right now the approach is to just do bursts until i burn myself out.
It might have worked when i was a young scrapper, but it doesn’t work now.
getting sick over and over is also not fun
i have so many things to learn and I need some sort of system to do it all
worth experimenting to find something that works for me
the babbling experiment that i started yesterday seems to be helping with keeping my mind at ease.
need to figure out more approaches/heuristics
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New day, new babbles
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Star Trek Nostalgia!
‘Nuff said
https://www.tumblr.com/cursedtrekedits/714691142286000128/my-favorite-tos-bloopers-outtakes-x-and-bts
#StarTrek #TOS #Outtakes #Bloopers
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I think i need to change my sci-fi-fantasy tag in #Calibre to fantasy-sci-fi
This is the year, where the balance has finally tilted over
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This song I love, love, love for the bass guitar (specially the run from 3.10 to about 3.25) and the horns
Find a way to my heart
https://youtu.be/j1sJkRPUnqg
#mjbMusic #PhilCollins
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/me recalls 20+ disk Novell Netware installs
shudders …
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Need to get myself out of my scarcity mindset and stop shift deleting files.
Not a week goes by, when I need to fish a file out of my backups because I irrevocably deleted it and now want back.
I have large disks now. They can afford to hold large amounts of trash!
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