I wanted to have a way to just jot down the various voices running through my head - perhaps it would be of some use to whoever else stumbles upon this.
Sunday - Wednesday (14 -17 July 2024) - Quick, non-detailed Recap
- Met friends on Sunday, spent time with partner in the morning. Slow day. Good day.
- Monday - Wednesday was spent working on a few things at work - a bit of firefighting and a bit of prioritising for the coming days.
- Also spent some good time getting the smaller details of this website up and running. It’s all up now! Using Convertkit for the newsletter service. Would like something self-hosted - but I want to prioritise other things.
- Step counts! I’m making my 7.5k steps so far since Monday. But I missed a few days right before that. I’ll talk more about exercise and sleep in the next issue.
Looking Ahead
- Biggest priority is clearing my task and email inbox. It’s piled up since some travel for the last week and a half.
- I want to spend some more time setting priorities - broadly - at work and crucially outside work as well. Need to do 1 to be able to do 2.
Stuff I’m building and exploring at Work
- I’m working to set up a small package that can do a few fun things with geospatial data. The focus here is weather data - but it should have a few applications beyond! It’s around 90% done for the v0.1. Just need to add logging and warnings and we’re off to the races!
- I’m trying to learn some flutter. One of our projects requires an app, and I want to gain an in-depth understanding of the development process, and be involved, right upto the details.
- I’m focusing on also getting some wireframes for the app ready. Our developer has already made an alpha for the app - my focus is getting from there to MVP.
- Process management! Points 1 and 2 in looking ahead also stress this - once I have cleared the messes in my head and systems - I want to set specific processes in place to make sure projects move in the right direction.
Stuff I’m focusing on outside of work.
- This website. It’s up! I have a few posts from my old substack that I need to migrate, before I retire those posts once and for all. Will likely move the newsletter subdomain as well - while redirecting appropriately. I’d like to delete the substack entirely after that.
- A finance tool! I’ve been tracking my spends on a google sheet/excel sheet. I want to build my own interface to do that, a simple python application that I can self host, and can also perform some EDA/CDA.
- Sleep! I want to sleep on time everyday. It’s been a mixed bag this week - but I want to report on this in the next issue. It’s bed time now and I’m gonna publish this and go sleep.