Productivity
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I made good progress on my Make integration with Notion, which will register a day’s session of work on a task. I’m switching projects now, so I’ll have to pick up the integration again in a few months when I get back to another iteration on my productivity system. But it was satisfying to fit in a decent amount of project work for a change. And what I’ve done so far accomplished the goals of getting over the initial hump and teaching me more about Notion and Make development.
Programming
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I toured the fascinating history of cryptology with Simon Singh’s The Code Book. I finally understood why the Enigma machine was such a big deal. And I now have a clue how public key cryptography works. And I’d wondered if anyone was working on a cipher to stay ahead of the quantum computing cryptocalypse, and it turns out they are with quantum cryptography.
Life maintenance
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The next couple of weeks will be my spring housekeeping, where I’ll focus on tidying and investing. I have some piles of clutter that have been accumulating over the months that need storing. And I only have a little research left on my medium-term investing project from way back when, so I’m hoping to get that resolved.
TV
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I started a media tracking project in Notion to remind myself of the shows I’m watching. I’ll expand to other media in the future. My tasks database has a set of statuses I can assign to a task, and these work well for media too. The statuses are suggested, planned, blocked, active, completed, and dropped. I have enough shows in progress (the active status) that I was forgetting about some of them, and there are others I’d paused to return to someday (some of the planned status shows), and I was forgetting those too. Adding shows with a blocked status got me to research when the next season of those shows will be premiering. Star Trek: Discovery will be in April. The others are up in the air.
Spirituality
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This week starts my Lent project of articulating my style of spirituality. I’m expecting that clarifying my views will help me live from them with more consistency and conviction.
The latest addition to my devotional procedure is intercession during the prayer time. I’m accumulating prayer requests very selectively and keeping track of them in a Notion database. This month I’m also following a prayer challenge from my church where each day we pray for a different missionary we support.
