2020 Week 46 review (09-15 Nov)
Sun Nov 15 2020Introduction
I'm reinstating the weekly review habit. See the previous blog posts for an explanation of the six different categories.
This week, I'm adding a new category: learning. There might be some significant overlap with side projects. I'm not sure how to categorise, because the goal of many of side projects is to learn as much as I can.
The six categories are:
- Career
- Physical
- Side projects
- Skills
- Relationships
- Serendipity
As with last week, I'll rate each of the six categories on a four-point scale:
- Excellent (exceeding expectations: better than I could've asked for),
- Good (meets expectations: about as good as I could've asked for),
- So-so (some good, some bad --- OK overall, but room for improvement),
- Bad (didn't meet my expectations --- could have done better).
Review of the week
Career
Good: Was very productive on Thursday
Physical
Bad: didn't sleep well on Sunday which fucked me up on Monday, and caused me to be very unproductive and bad on Mon/Tues/Wed.
Worked out 4 out of a target 6 days which is decent. Kept up a decent stretching habit, I think 3 days a week.
I took melatonin, I bought four bottles of melatonin
Side projects
Skills
Relationships
I met Bernard for 5 hours last weekend (but not sure) We called the flat gang I met with Edward which was nice I'm meeting the CS gang for the first time today.
Serendipity
Excellent this week
- NYC and Nicole --> new side project? Do I want to take on this commitment?
- Did the Bradfield CSI take home assignment on a whim, which was fun and I learned a lot.
- Started playing Hades, sunk about 20 hours into it and got a couple of clears! This was the first game in quite a long while that I sank serious time into. Should spend more time with Celine. I can stream gaming, we can play Stardew Valley/Terraria/Overcooked/whatever other game together.
- Helped my sister quite a bit with her essays
Some unanswered questions
CS self-study projects
After getting the offer from OGP I was thinking about what I should do next/learn in the interim. Over the pa I have lots of CS self-study projects coming up that I could do. They are the following:
- Learn multiplayer + networking from the board game engine
- Learn Rust (prereq for the OS course)
- Learn OS by building an OS using Rust following the Stanford course
- Learn networking by building some TCP chat server
- Build a handheld device after building the OS???
- Implement a distributed key-value store??
What should I do? What's the right balance to strike?
My plan for next week
- Plan my day at the start of every day and update Celine about it either through voice memo or by text
"Rusty Mondays" "Thesis Tuesdays": meet Gabe "?? Wednesdays" "Celine Thursdays": hang out with Celine "?? Fridays" "Board Game Saturdays": do development with Joshua "?? Sundays"