Day Architecture : Ten & Four Quarters Model

"Reviewing my daily architecture. I'll revisit old designs later, but let's look at current requirements first."

( DAY )

24 hours : 10 assigned to sleep : 14 assigned to wake

14 is a weird number, but it scrapes by, by being even, and thus only mildly awkward when broken into quarters of 3.5

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( FIRST waking quarter )

- food prep is notably clumsier than buying prepped food, taking up to 40 extra minutes per meal

- to reduce prep time, the number of prepped meals is minimised : currently I'm down to two per day

- a large bolus of calories ( currently configured at 900 or so ) does weird things to insulin and the subsequent hormonal cascade; in order to mitigate productivity losses from PM1, I may need to allocate high energy demands into this quarter also

( SECOND waking quarter )

- no detailed plans yet ; but logically, there should be antagonistic activity versus what is executed in WQ1

- generally we're looking at no eating

- perhaps a continued allocation for high energy demands, in order to maximise useful tissue damage

( THIRD waking quarter )

- I am not sure if PM2 belongs here, or in the next WQ

- if PM2 doesn't go here, then some sort of snack is in order

- appropriate WQ for a nap ; classical pattern of a siesta

( FOURTH waking quarter )

- INappropriate WQ for a nap

- appropriate to execute strenuous cognitive work, so that it is immediately slept upon

- but in order to reduce cortisol, norepinephrine, et al. it seems appropriate to ban caffeine from this WQ

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( sleeping quarters 1, 2, 3 )

- generally memories are not bound here, so I'm avoiding active optimisations for the time being

( FOURTH sleeping quarter )

- bound memories vis-a-vis remembered dreams tend to occur here

- it is observed that breaking from sleep to ingest water and protein prior to this quarter improves lucid/semi-lucid thought processes during this period of sleep, subsequently resulting in greater pleasure upon waking ( this may be dopamine related, but I'm not sure yet ; I just have a hypothesis about dopamine's role in the pleasure of executing thought processes )

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I might finally have found a use for my diver's watch with that rotating bezel.