Category Archives: Weeknotes

Weeknote for 5/23/2021

Business 😎 How to Manage Complex Programs by Tom Kendrick has returned me to my project of treating my life as a business. A program in this context is a set of interrelated projects. Kendrick is writing about corporate programs, … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 5/16/2021

Housekeeping 😐 I’ve entered the messy phase of tidying. Marie Kondo says you need to purge before you organize, but really there’s some pre-purge organizing you have to do. You have to get all the items from the category you’re … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 5/9/2021

Blog 😐 A couple of housekeeping notes about changes in the next month or so. I’ll be ending or replacing the audio version of the posts. The audio service I’m using for the blog is a good one, but it … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 5/2/2021

Productivity 😎 My time blocking is still working. In terms of productivity, this is basically the minimum state I’ve wanted to reach, being able to plan a reasonable day and do it. The few times I’ve gotten to this point, … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 4/25/2021

Productivity 😎 I’m time blocking again, and so far it’s working very well. My disorganized evenings the week before didn’t leave much time for projects, and I spent most of the time blogging. This highlighted a dissatisfaction I’d been having, … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 4/18/2021

Website 😐 I updated my website software. I made a WordPress update, which broke the blog, updated my PHP version, which broke the wiki, and updated MediaWiki, which fixed the wiki except for the abandoned extensions I’ll have to replace. … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 4/11/2021

Productivity 😐 I’m getting back into GTD. I’m trying to use it as a low-energy activity to stay productive when I’m tired after work. So far I’ve mostly been organizing the uncategorized tasks I’ve accumulated in Nirvana over the years. … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 4/4/2021

Blog πŸ€” I’m rethinking how I write these weeknotes. I spent way too much time last week writing my update. And what I was trying to write would’ve taken much more time, but I scaled it back. Since I need … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 3/28/2021

Finances πŸ€” I got partway through my taxes. I did the time-consuming part of organizing my records. Maybe this year I’ll organize as I go. Anyway, I’ll finish the taxes this week. I watched a bunch of videos on diversifying … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 3/21/2021

Productivity 😎 I started a new productivity experiment at work. It went very well all week. Instead of letting myself extend my workday several hours to make up for wasted time, I’m only letting myself work between 7:30 am and … Continue reading

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