[Epistemic Status: This is an artifact of my self study. I am using help manage my focus. As such, I don't expect anyone to fully read it. If you have particular interest or expertise, skip to the relevant sections, and please leave a comment, even just to say "good work/good luck". I'm hoping for a feeling of accountability and would like input from peers and mentors. This may also help to serve as a guide for others who wish to study in a similar way to me. ]

Highlights

I once again got off track and am now starting up again. This time I'm hoping to focus on job searching and consistent maintainable effort.

Review of 5th Sprint

My goals for the 5th sprint were:

• Every day spend some time on each of the following:
  • Read some LW post or other relevant material. (SSJ--2)
  • Spend some time writing or developing ideas to write (SSJ--1)
  • Work on Transformers from Scratch course (SSJ--2&4)
• By the end of the sprint:
  • Have clarified my SSJ--6, social networking, goals and strategy, and write a post describing them.

Daily Worklog

Sprint Summary

Overview

I'm fairly unhappy with my lack of progress this last month.

I love my family, but as a neurodivergent person who struggles with changes to routine... I really dislike the holiday times. Or maybe it's better to say I like the holiday times, but dread trying to get back on a schedule afterwards, especially now without the external support of attending University. Being your own manager is difficult. I used to feel competent at it but maybe my life used to be simpler. Alas.

I'm looking forward to turning my focus back to these endeavours.

Reading

I like reading articles but get so inspired by them I spend my time analyzing and responding to them. Maybe that is valuable, but it takes away time from my other focuses. I think for the next sprint I'm not going to read any articles.

Writing

I wrote:

• "I Have Hope"
• "Semantic Topological Spaces"
• an unpublished OIS explainer

And I started a public list of things to write. I think in the future I should focus on trying to keep the posts I write fairly short, as that seems to get better engagement, and burns me out less.

Transformers from Scratch

I started out well with this, but didn't log it well and eventually got busy with other things and stopped. I think I will make some progress milestone goals for my next sprint.

Networking Goals

I've talked with several people and written "TT's Looking-for-Work Strategy", which I plan to follow over the coming months.

Goals for 6th Sprint

It seems like failing to maintain my focus on this is a problem, so for the next sprint I plan to make working on this more maintainable by setting targets for the minimum and maximum amounts of time to focus on each focus.

My focuses for the next sprint are:

• Do between 1 and 4 pomodoros looking for work per day.
• Do between 1 and 2 Transformers from Scratch submodules per week.
• Do at least 1 pomodaro per week focused on ndisp project.
• Spend no more than 1 pomodoro per day on writing.
• Write something down in my worklog at the end of every day.