I failed even more miserably at time tracking this week, but I found the setting goals so useful I’m going to do it again. 
Goals from last week:
(Saturday) Attend Haclab AGM(Monday) Teach my Haskell workshop(notes)(Tuesday) Hacklab open houseFinalize and post Mandelbrot blog post- Work on
Calculus Series, Malthus,Implicit CAD Follow up with S- on speak at TLUG (on 3D printing)I will be speaking in November. It’s also likely that I’ll be speaking at SoonCon.- Follow up with D- about Malthus extruder
- Buy
fruit from market, follow up on getting rid of old books, junk
Other things I did this week:
- Wrote a simple parser for conlang project (doesn’t support recursive grammar yet)
- Started reading The Dark Fields.
- Work. It’s amazing how much energy 40 hours a week takes out of me. On the plus side, me being pulled in to work on a flurry of different projects has meant that this week I got my first experience with AJAX/JQuery, Ruby, and Rails. Exciting things are happening with ldnsx as well. And I had an excuse to do some LaTeX hacking on the job.
Goals for next week:
- Work on Malthus, Implicit CAD
- Follow up with D- about Malthus extruder
- Buy fruit from market (again), follow up on getting rid of old books, junk
- Finish reading Dark Fields
- Finish post on Pascal’s Triangle
- Get some algebraic topology reading done
Only one month of work left!
August 22, 2011 at 03:39 |
What’s getting in your way in terms of time tracking? =) Me, I found myself tracking sporadically until I switched to using an app on my PDA/phone. It also helped that I changed to a model of “always checked in, just switching tasks” – I feel more motivated to update it because I don’t want my time misclassified.
My favourite tracking app is diverging from my use case, so I may try to convince the developer to add an option or send me a downgrade. (Or I’ll end up writing my own, I guess, which would also be cool.)
August 23, 2011 at 01:13 |
I keep forgetting to start in the morning. A few hours in I remember, but then I go “Oh, I’ve already ruined tracking for today. Why bother starting? I’ll do it tomorrow…” This has resulted in me not doing any tracking for the last five days
I think I’ll right a note and put it beside my bed tonight, so I’ll right away tomorrow.