Monday, 1/13/2019
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Tasks
DONE Travel to Palm Springs
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DONE Opening session
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DONE Dinner
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DONE Setup script to pull POTD from Astrobin
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DONE Build a tool for managing life balance goals
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Add in the pillars of your life, family, friends, spouse, work, volunteering,
etc
Once a day? Once a week? Check in how in you've spent your energy ... 1-5? 1-10?
Source: https://medium.com/@padday/how-i-try-to-organise-my-life-to-make-me-happy-e521541d8691
Journal
Woke up after three hours of sleep this morning to catch my flight to
California. I've been followed by a strange sense of malaise around this trip
for a few days and it started with the cancelled flight. Something just felt
less than fun about flying and leaving the family. Part of, I believe, is mixed
emotions about meeting a lot of the non-engineers at 15Five. I had a great time
in Portugal, but our goals were really focused. This time around I think I'm a
little nervous about the usefulness of building a tight rapport with folks not
in our discipline. Also, both Andrii and Zoltan are noting going to make it,
which is a disappointment.
That said, it was really nice to have more family time before leaving. I was
able to do a lot more cleaning and hanging out with the kids before I left last
night.
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Today started off a little strange. I got an email with a receipt for payment
for the hotel room. But I was pretty sure I had already paid the room fee
before. So that added some stress to the start of the trip. It did, however,
dawn on me on the airport shuttle in Philadelphia, that my new challenge with
getting our finances under control will be not dwelling on the little backsteps
or mistakes, but to just tighten up everything else.
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Sat down on the flight from Bangor with a guy who does SEO optimization but has
engineering background as well as farming. The conversation was really neat
talking about our shared experience with technology in the past and farms. The
conversation was a little superficial at times but ultimately a nice way to
spend the trip. When I made my connection in Philly just fine I was in a much
better mood too. Turns out the stress of connecting flights was at least part of
what I was feeling this morning.
The guy I'm sitting next to now is an ultrarunner and puts me to shame. Talking
with him makes me want to start distance running again. Maybe take the emphasis
off time and just go out for distances or time. The hardest part is finding room
for 1 or 2 hour runs each day. But I bet if I de-emphasized certain things like
watching sports I'd have more time to run in the morning. Perhaps what I need to
do when I get home is commit to going to bed much earlier so I can run in the
morning, even when it's dark and cold. It's never that cold, at least not consistently.
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