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Week 1 (03-09)

Weekly Progress

Tasks

Notable-Impact

• finished social homework
• Nand2Tetris, went from finishing unit 4 project to finishing unit 6 lectures
• Finished building the actual computer :o
• Prepared app for submission
  • Should probably do it soon lmao, especially if I’m not planning on adding/revising it
• Finished recording and uploading obsidian video
  • Filled out time logs
• Finished building and keymapping lily58
  • Put on switches, resoldered, fixed bent switches, learned to use qmk firmware, put on keycaps, create a keymap
• Finished reading bold, thinking in bets, part 1 of the well educated mind, 99 financial principles
• Planned courses for first year sfu
• Started chatting more in the SFU discord
  • Chatted with osha about course selection and uni stuffs
• Fixing sleep schedule
• Remodelled todoist utilization
• Added content to my linkedin profile

Moderate-Impact

• Vipassana meditation sessions
• Finished differential equations review
• Partook in next steps virtual meeting for sfu fas newgrads
• Uploaded crying for rain val montage
• Submitted project 2 proposal and started script
• Bought JTK Sora
  • Officially broke
• Integrated give and take, bold, the courage to be disliked, “99 Financial Tips”, “The Intelligent Investor”, “The Millionaire Fastlane”,

Categories Assessment

Productive

• Comm Media
  • Finished project 1 (due may 12), next one due may 26 I think
    • I have ample time, and if I follow the same work ethic as I did with my obsidian video I should be chilling :)
• Social Studies
  • Been rolling through the assignments, been able to reflect on canada’s history and first nations heritage
    • Wonder what insight I’m missing by not going to in-person classes though :/
• Math
  • Nice to see that I’m not that rusty, am still gonna plan on doing some extra practice though just to be fully prepared
    • Redo some previously done MC
    • Thinking on whether I want to only go to school for the test
• Nand2Tetris
  • It’s super fun being able to better understand the principles behind the operation of a computer, and the projects have helped solidify my understanding :D
    • Can’t wait to move on to part 2 with software
• SFU/Uni Transition
  • Super grateful Osha was willing to chat me up and discuss his experiences as a first year
  • Glad to see there’s some cool people with similar interests in applied sciences, albeit sometimes the server can be cringe
    • They’re gonna be greatly disappointed when I don’t look like the picture I sent anymore lmaooo
  • Spent a decent amount of time on choosing classes (having to learn the pre-requisites and requirements, balancing, looking at reddit reviews and recommendations), but am happy of what I have now :)
    • Just gotta talk to an advisor about my courses
• Reading
  • The books I read have helped shape my mindset (decision-making, reflection, analysis), and probe me about entrepreneurship
• Vipassana Meditation
  • First few days were good, but lately it’s been hard to stay focused on my breathing
    • Doesn’t seem to have worsened my focus on those days, but ill keep trying it
      • MAKE THE CONSCIOUS DECISION TO REPLACE SCREEN TIME WITH MEDITATION
• Keyboard
  • Spent a lot of time but everything’s taken care of :)
  • Found out soldering was way easier than I thought it was
  • I gotta stop bending the switch pins lmao
  • laskdklaksdlaksdjadslkj I can’t wait for my next builds
    • Could be super useful for obsidian with the different macros and hotkeys I can do

Hobby

• Anime
  • Only watched like 2 episodes this week bruh
• Gaming
  • Played a bunch of apex with friends
    • Starting to get bored of the game though so prob just gonna focus on valorant/vr/anime
    • Being focused on my schedule/tasks has disconnected me from my friends
      • I think I should continue to prioritize my work over playing games though, and if I were to join discord while doing stuff, it would keep me constantly distracted
        • Starting to become an absolute introvert lmao
  • Behind on my battle pass but idrc anymore
    • I got most of the skins that I wanted and I don’t wanna be forced to play the game just because I have to hit tier 50

Key Metrics

• Productive hours:
  • Mon- 8.25
  • Tues- 8
  • Wed- 9.75
  • Thurs- 7
  • Fri- 6
  • Sat- 8.75
  • Sun- 6.75+
  • Total Hours: 54.5
  • Hours average: 7.78

Reflection

Thoughts About the Week

• Hours were quite low, but I feel like I did a lot of stuff
  • Rarely felt out of it while doing my tasks
    • Mix of enjoyment and mindfulness
  • Not bad considering the length of my breaks, lack of direction, my extended morning routines, and more apex playtime
• Surprised to see I rolled through the nand2tetris course that fast, and that I’m doing quite well in school despite not going to school lmao
  • I can probably afford a few hits in my average considering last quarter’s grades (98 and 100)
• Been starting to watch more youtube and browsing more reddit
  • This paired with chatting on the sfu discord has occupied my time lmao
  • I wanna start wathcing more anime but I’m afrid it’ll keep me up at night
  • Should start playing val and vr games again too

Setbacks

• Could probably squeeze a bit more time in later in the night
• Morning routine has went from 1 hour to almost 2 hours

Catalysts

• Earlier bedtime
• More fulfilling breaks
• Staying mindful

Future Plan

Thoughts

• Continue to be mindful and productive in my time sessions
• Plan my day to force myself to follow schedule
• Consider whether I want to go back to school
  • Downsides would be more travel time, ineffcient work environment, sorting out transportation plan
  • Upsides would be seeing friends and teachers
• Being able to thoroughly think about my week, evaluating my progress, and planning some key projects for the next week has been super useful

Adjustments/Improvements

• Consciously think of the reasons for rolling through my morning routine
• Spend less time on social media and focus on the actual parts of my morning routine
  • Replace social media time with reading???? :o
  • Ask myself whether going on social media will be beneficial for starting off my day, and if I value it over time I can spend being productive
• Force myself to hit minimum time allotments for the tasks below
  • Might have to not allow extra time spent to finish everything
• Stay organized and on top of things with todoist kanban board and tasks

Lead Measures (Skills)

Productive

• 0:15 vipassana meditation
  • Gonna stay at 15 minutes until I am able to stay more focused
• 1.5-2/d Study for Computer Science AP
  • FRQ + review every day
• 1-2/d math
  • Gonna be learning new things, brush up on de before test
• 1/d Reading
  • Eager to read the books I recently downloaded :)
• 0:15 stocks reading
  • Subreddit, discord
• variable check out amazon course my aunt bought

Lag Measures (Products)

Productive

• 1-2 talk to advisor about my schedule
• 1-2 Plan new entrepreneurship venture
  • Gotta take small steps
  • Learn new skills, plan potential business models
    • Not sure what to do though since I’m moving soon and I don’t really know what I can provide
• 1-2 Scholarship browsing
  • Gonna have to write some if due dates are close
• 1/d videography
  • 0.5-0.75/d lily58 practice and journal
  • Rest can be val montage
• 1/d nand2tetris
  • finish part 1, start part 2
• 1/d book note obsidian integration
  • Also make/find mathjax reference page
  • Gonna be fun with my lily58 LMAO
• 1-2/d Social studies assignments

Hobby

• 1 episode minimum of anime a day
• 1 game minimum of valorant a day
• 15 minutes of beat saber a day
• 30 minutes max of sole youtube

If I take the total words and divide it by the time spent I would have been typing 21.2 wpm :o

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