Huge variance in quality, from consultants? I only had this to say :
( also how you should train AI )
ELEMENTARY
1.1. begin with the somatic substrate : physical conditioning, home economics
1.2. supply-chain concerns : society, politics, cultural anthropology, organisational development
1.3. housekeeping : logic, mathematics, statistics
INTERMEDIATE
2.1. review the cognitive apparatus : phenomenology, epistemology, ontology, ethics
2.2. categorically differentiate : natural sciences, social sciences
2.3. reflect on : art history, humanities, non-standardised paradigms
ADVANCED
3.1. domain-specific engineering : accounting, law, medicine, etc.
3.2. from the atoms : how do these words appear on the screen? where do bodies come from?
3.3. what happens when anybody perceives anything? multiplex ...
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Sab2 week14/52 review
Basically 100% Strata work
DEETS:
Jun28 s2 m4 w14 d92 25.21%
0434 : Done with last minute FPA report on strata thingy.
1551 : After a lot of babysitting, back to work.
2149 : caught up with an excolleague. fed. maybe a spot of work. more strata networking tomorrow
2201 : Long weekend again! Please reach out for networking coffees or beer. I'll head out.
Otherwise I mostly expect to be stuck at home working on a giant governance manual in Google Slides ... haha
Jun29 s2 m4 w14 d93 25.48%
2359 : full day of strata networking and systems design. thousands of Whatsapp messages this week
So far, strata management has been very cute. Some folks are adamant that they are very clever, but refuse to take point. Others are adamant that they are very sincere, and have gone the full Kick Ass. Many, many people are in positions of power, but are either lazy or stupid ... or malicious, after all, there are only three classes of insufficiency on corporate earth. It's another little terrarium, isn't it ...
Jun30 s2 m4 w14 d94 25.75%
1237 : I used to clear email daily. Maybe I have to make it a weekly habit.
1329 : Every al-Adha, I guess I should remind myself to sacrifice my friends and family for the finer things in life :P
Jul1 s2 m4 w14 d95 26.03%
0006 : Quite tired this week. Probably good exercise, that I have been missing in relatively slow jobs all of 2021 and 2022.
0041 : Happy half-year, to you! I've spent the last quarter kicking off my sabbatical. So many housekeeping items to attend to. Adopted my condo's management corporation and spent the last week being the noisiest person in a volunteer organisation. So much for that ... I wonder what life will bring when I start looking for a job in January.
2105 : strata, strata, strata. Well, that was a long day of unnecessary work. I guess it's a success as long as no one maims or jails me after all that. If you die, whatever you did was definitively fatal.
Jul2 s2 m4 w14 d96 26.3%
0257 : a lot of strata work
Jul3 s2 m4 w14 d97 26.58%
0257 : after some strata work, a little bit of lounging at the newly discovered garden floors in the dark
2332 : I was chatting with my condo volunteer colleagues about work. There's this great line from a movie, the Dark Knight ... not the line about doing stuff for free ... the other line ... ""Can't rely on anyone these days, you have to do everything yourself, don't we!""
That's why we have volunteers, I guess. Personally it is my motivation to be on the committee - and since the work I wanted the committee to do is near completion, I will soon step back, and let others do what they want to do.
Jul4 s2 m4 w14 d98 26.85%
0354 : I Think I got all my strata work done for the day. But I'm never sure.
2040 : At this point in history : the de-gendering of sexes may require sexism to become a sexy thing.
2053 : Why do so many people believe that tofu causes gout?
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Sab2 week15/52 review
DEETS:
Jul5 s2 m4 w15 d99 27.12%
1030 : Alright ... turbo on ... this is like 2018 all over again, hopefully for just a coupla weeks.
Jul6 s2 m4 w15 d100 27.4%
Jul7 s2 m4 w15 d101 27.67%
0014 : yesterday was an interesting day. No major surprises. A few confirmed security breaches. Nothing unexpected.
I proposed that my relatively inactive board appoint a Temporary Executive Office.
0100 : I only need to make one friend tomorrow. I have three names in mind, but I don't know if anyone will be up for it. It's late and I probably shouldn't bother thinking about it.
1800 : It was a moderately productive day. A lot of time was wasted driving, but I go to do some weird new stuff, so it wasn't too bad. Bucket lists, I guess.
In other spaces, it's too optimistic to think I'm patient. I do one five-year project, and misthink that I have infinite patience ... but it's only 60-70 times the patience of my colleague who quit after a month. There's a big difference between 65 and infinity.
2237 : evening developments were amusing - I was handed the opportunity to say less about the work I do to constituents, and I grabbed it. Perhaps now, a greater focus on work. Only perhaps, as one doesn't know what will come up next ... here we go ... overall, it seems like a pretty awesome week. I just need to cap it off tomorrow with some formalities.
Jul8 s2 m4 w15 d102 27.95%
0058 : There are many ways to execute a breach. Sometimes you go in quietly and remove obstacles at night. Sometimes you flash-bang, and then snipe from the perimeter. I guess the most recent scenario is more like the latter.
Jul9 s2 m4 w15 d103 28.22%
1540 : Time to study Fajarbaru, the listed company which built my home, in detail.
Jul10 s2 m4 w15 d104 28.49%
1343 : It's a slightly more restful day - I hope to see friends this evening. 9pm, come one and all to Sentul. But let me know because I need to issue QR access codes ...
2026 : Jalan Ipoh condos. Birch has a much better service layer than Rica. Fittings are better thought out. Utilisation rate much higher. Good job, SCP. Rica will have to think about it later.
Jul11 s2 m4 w15 d105 28.77%
0316 : I'm a rather tired idiot.
1852 : I seem to have turned into some sort of political secretary. Haha. But I will soon resign, as I will soon be out of budget for donating time.
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Sab2 week16/52 review
Entering the third week of missionary work at Rica ... will aim to extract myself from the frontline by the fourth week. Could miss, and it would end up in fifth, but that's within reason.
DEETS:
Jul12 s2 m4 w16 d106 29.04%
Jul13 s2 m4 w16 d107 29.32%
0056 : I was curious about how much it costs to pump water in our building. The system pumps water for 460+ residential units up to the 40th storey tank, assuming 13ft/storey that's 158m. May 2023 water bill indicates about 5,196 metric tons of water. So we're looking at something like (5,196,000 kg)(9.8m/s^2)(158 m) = ... = 2,234 kWh. Our cold water pump runs on TNB tariff C1 Commercial which is 0.365 RM/kWh. So with a 90% pumping efficiency that put us at ... 906 RM/month for pumping water to the tank. Which is remarkably less than I thought it would be ... so there's probably an error in my assumptions somewhere. Let me go ask the chargeman again ...
1723 : I am throwing a pineapple soda party. Nevermind why I am throwing a pineapple soda party. Do you want to attend a pineapple soda party? If you don't like pineapple soda, there is also wine and cheese.
2328 : A peaceful day. Extraction very soon.
Jul14 s2 m4 w16 d108 29.59%
Jul15 s2 m4 w16 d109 29.86%
0320 : I tolerate too much sloth in my own life. But, others may worry that I move too quickly. In short, I think I let myself be misled by others too often. On one hand, I want to move slowly enough to not irritate people, on the other I should get on with my own life. But I actually don't have much certainty of ambition, so I don't often think my own life is very interesting. That's the problem with privilege ... you can afford to let yourself be gaslit for fun.
1500 : brownie baking with friends.
1910 : Success is not that complicated. Once you unhinge it from the need to live long, you unhinge it from the need for money. Once you unhinge success from money, life gets really really easy.
1916 : the sun is still up. that time of year. 25.5C indoors sometimes.
2053 : For next week, my final week on the local government committee, I will aim prepare for the team a good set of meeting prep, and minutes. And set up some structure for a new contract for our chief executive. Then I will retire, for now.
Jul16 s2 m4 w16 d110 30.14%
0042 : Oh, it's that time of month again. CC bill under 2k! 2k left! Will have to yank savings from ETFs for mortgage in a coupla weeks.
1437 : Gonna work on a contract for our property manager today. Wish me luck.
2030 : If I do retail again, I might have to ban staff from greeting visitors with ""welcome!""
Jul17 s2 m4 w16 d111 30.41%
1300 : Good Monday, to you. The week is off to a rough start, with some scheduling hiccups for Saturday. I'll monitor this, and try to reign it in. Otherwise I am mainly in waiting mode, as we approach Saturday for a host of formal minutes, including my resignation and handover from the current volunteer role. Meanwhile, my focus is on preparing for a concise, handover of duties, by firming up all work already done. Good luck to all involved.
Jul18 s2 m4 w16 d112 30.68%
0240 : Many outspoken members of society are unfortunately disappointing. Neuroticism can be useful if contained within a system, like gunpowder in a barrel. But without form, all this exuberance is wasted in flashes of enmity. So now I find myself in a quandry, deciding how much I should expend in helping some young men defend themselves from bitter old men. It is often said, the gender is irrelevant, but we all know that men fight and women watch, mostly. Ah, so many angry men.
0328 : Following the heuristic of my youth, I would categorise this as a soft problem. The solution is simple, but tedious. So accordingly, I guess I have to decline to be involved, for as a rule, I don't go out of my way to help people when I am busy - and right now, it is a busy time.
1114 : Enforced feeding. Errands. Then to refocus on reasoning with toddlers.
1209 : I go to deal with a plant.
2316 : And so it goes, on the night before a public holiday. I sit by myself to conserve energy, before I go back to desking and strata management. Some time has been spent counselling my younger colleagues in their roles, some time spent breaching problems ahead of them, and the some time spent talking to my friends about their expanding social circles. I am happy that my friends grow wealthier. I must rest, to get on with work again, soon, that is all I have to look forward to.
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Sab2 week17/52 review
Trench warfare. Waiting. But managed to eject nicely by the end of the week. Woo hoo.
DEETS:
Jul19 s2 m4 w17 d113 30.96%
1457 : Current Car, total cost of ownership including maintenance and gas, excluding tolls and parking.
0.39 RM/km, OR 17.6 RM/day
Is it worth it?
1755 : gasketed a window to test sound proofing
2359 : Killed time with a friend. Drank too much - and the cornucopeia of junk food did not help. Needing to drink more water to purge.
Jul20 s2 m4 w17 d114 31.23%
1227 : Back to the grind.
Jul21 s2 m4 w17 d115 31.51%
0347 : Looking forward to hand over in a coupla days. I hope there isn't any trouble, from all of this. I am looking forward to shifting my focus back from community service, to personal development.
Jul22 s2 m4 w17 d116 31.78%
0313 : I've generally been able to render speech using any voice that I want, in my imagination. TIR I can render my internal monologue in the same way, in fact if I use a choral voice, it's actually quite soothing and makes it more pleasant to hear myself think. Lol
2131 : Interesting experience in community leadership this year. Found that my neighbourhood was lacking in organisation. Nominated an outspoken member, and volunteered myself to engage. Found that the nominee while outspoken, moved very, very dodgily ... so I actually unvolunteered myself to let them take charge. Also got to know some chaps I didn't nominate. Happy to see them thrust forward together. Hope they work well in the future.
Jul23 s2 m4 w17 d117 32.05%
0124 : Malaysia is full of really dumb stuff.
But when in Rome ... 🤷♀️
#careerCitizen
1124 : Awake. Attack the day.
Jul24 s2 m4 w17 d118 32.33%
0047 : It's been a long time since I regularly slept as much as I'm supposed to (10/24).
Jul25 s2 m4 w17 d119 32.6%
0307 : I feel inadequately prepared to study a huge pile of software tools. Oh well. Better late than never.
1328 : Random chores kinda day.
2248 : Errands. Restocked citric acid. Surveyed nearby baking supply shops. Plugged a hole in a jug with silicone. Dismantled, reinforced, and rewrapped my boardroom AC duct. Guiding my friends in my role as post-committee member. Time to vent the home.
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Sab2 week18/52 review
Managed to eject after 4-5 weeks, from the condo study. Very good. Resetting for other work ...
DEETS:
Jul26 s2 m4 w18 d120 32.88%
0032 : I guess I'll have to make-do with street cams, instead of cafe vistas.
0925 : I think my availability to practice zero-inbox, is a good indicator of my business intensity.
1036 : It's still dark, at Abbey Road crossing. Vehicles pass infrequently. An occasional cyclist.
1057 : zeroed inbox, reading the news. Haven't been this chill in months. good to get things caught up
1208 : Maybe I should just open an art studio and sell thingies.
1623 : post-nap. replaced Facebook feed with Gmail, as primary firehose. Shift of priorities!
1705 : also, time to clear Chrome bookmark backlog.
1812 : PSA : your satellite Internet / Starlink terminal may consume up to 1kWh/d ... or RM 7-15/month ...
Jul27 s2 m4 w18 d121 33.15%
0328 : I believe I haven't been this jobless since 2015. Good time for a breather, I suppose.
Jul28 s2 m5 w18 d122 33.42%
1024 : Cognitive tuning. Yesterday I de-noised my aural imagination. Today I am seeking to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of my sensory nervous system. The main tactic I use for this sort of thing, I used to refer to as ""increasing the volume of haptic data"", but I guess it is afferent data from muscles and bones in general, which may be of different qualities. There is a phrase, ""stimming"" which refers to emergency stimulation of the nervous system for similar purposes. I guess, we all seek organised activities for improving somatic SNR.
2000 : Building manager finally got the 22JUL minutes out. Hand-over is public - I can more safely retire from this committee thing - for now.
Jul29 s2 m5 w18 d123 33.7%
1507 : Time for house chores. Grouting tiles, and gasketing windows.
Jul30 s2 m5 w18 d124 33.97%
0100 : It's a great privilege to have friends. Moreover to watch them grow up.
0339 : So it turns out - there's no simple API or UI service for scanning receipts into structured data, WITH line-itemisation, at low cost ... so I guess ... I could still feasible study this as a business problem.
0406 : Sustained APM is bloody low. This week's focus : get it up ... hopefully without B12 dependency.
Jul31 s2 m5 w18 d125 34.25%
0109 : The acting in Fallen Angels is just horrible - I guess it belongs in the grand tradition of slapstick comedies.
OK - I was thinking about raising sustainable APM, as a focus for this week, but perhaps I need to modify this concept into OPD / operations per day.
1432 : Calibration: increased creatine dose from 1.5g to 3g. Added salt to instant coffee.
Aug1 s2 m5 w18 d126 34.52%
2000 : Signed LHDN closure request at Pandan Indah. Networked with a civic tech acquaintance at KL Sentral. Got a doctor's referral for a HIV test. Got an agent to take photos of mom's old flat. Cleaned the pool, and dolphin kicked a little bit. Fed. Doing laundry. Time for a nap.
2208 : Hung laundry. Time to grind ... data entry.
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Sab2 week19/52 review
DEETS: much social procrastination and a study of Git.
Aug2 s2 m5 w19 d127 34.79%
0251 : Done checking YTD2023 receipts - I might have to strategically replace dining-out with cooking at home for guests. Done test-installing Ubuntu Touch ... which is unfortunately limited in usability out of the box.
0324 : sleep soon. having fed consistently today, I'm now flushing my brain with tea to minimise trash before bed. More hydration is key.
0325 : How's my do/dt doing over the first half of the week? Acceptable I guess. Maintaining focus on the rate of operations per day.
1458 : ok, back to coding, I think
16:18:If I think about my relationships, the most committed relationship I have been in for the past ten years is to Amazon Web Services' proprietary infrastructure LOL. I don't mean for this to last forever, but you know ... it works while it works.
Aug3 s2 m5 w19 d128 35.07%
1259 : Today is for spinning-off parts of my framework into git submodules. If I can figure it out. It's probably time for me to bother acquiring advanced familiarity with git - after all I am already forty ... -_-
Aug4 s2 m5 w19 d129 35.34%
0126 : Sabbatical years are like the (reduce) phase after several years of (map) phasing.
1656 : Writing a systematic introduction to (git) is harder than sorting out condo management. Haha. It's a nice change of pace ... mostly my life is defined by decisions to do the harder thing, instead of the pleasant thing.
1905 : I think half the annoyance I cause other people is due to the fact that I bucket most of my social activity as low priority check-list items in a sort of SOP. Many people are looking for more ... but that must mean that they actually value social relationships highly ... whereas I probably do not. I mean, I value them highly, but not higher than I value my options to drop all social relations at any point. Hm. #politics
2324 : kita tak sejiwa, tapi kita ada persefahaman
Aug5 s2 m5 w19 d130 35.62%
Aug6 s2 m5 w19 d131 35.89%
2040 : After I figured out how to quantify human experience around 2004, I figured I'd need to contemplate it for twenty years. During that time I made a point to network mainly with poor people. Now towards the end of the two decade period, I am wondering if I should pivot in the next two decades to network with the wealthy.
Someone suggested I network with HENRYs, my thoughts : ""Besides the point - everyone has access to HENRYs - and it's not hard to get into networks if I want to - the question is about whether I can make it worth my time lol ... and until I find a USE for money, I don't really need to know rich people ...
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Aug7 s2 m5 w19 d132 36.16%
0719 : Reading up on B12 deficiency factors, again. It's not supposed to make a large difference in performance unless one has a deficiency. I've observed a lot of short-term effects from supplementation since about 5 -7 years ago. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminB12-HealthProfessional/
1731 : Often, when I start musing about the nature of wealth, and whether I should engage with it, the common observation about conservatives ""the wealthy are cautious about whom they associate with,"" appears. Then I have to remember and figure out if it's worth explaining that no one who fears losing power is truly powerful.
Then again, maybe I am just conflating wealth and power. Perhaps the wealthy are simply those who aspire to power without having it, and the powerful are simply those who do not need to be wealthy. But this is a moral inversion which brings us to historical lenses of slaves and weakness.
What do you think, wealth is?
1756 : Almost forgot to run my tofu bakar test for the reduction of anti-nutrients.
Aug8 s2 m5 w19 d133 36.44%
0243 : alrighty, took five casual days to cobble together a study guide for git. Now to ... actually study it ... plus apply what I can to my framework studies.
0501 : Eviscerate shyness and timidity. #mentalconditioningtoday
1256 : Enforced waking. Enforced work.
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Sab2 week20/52 review
DEETS: Decent recovery getting back into study mode. printed notes
Aug9 s2 m5 w20 d134 36.71%
0542 : Turning 40 in 7 weeks, and my favourite programming DSL is still CSS ...
1950 : Even among friends, it seems impossible to help one, without another complaining. That is the nature of society.
Aug10 s2 m5 w20 d135 36.99%
0545 : Soon, learning Bash properly.
2359 : All sorts of home improvement fixes this week. Paint. Wiring. Geez.
Aug11 s2 m5 w20 d136 37.26%
0517 : First day with the workstation at the standing desk facing the DUKE and the highlands. OK experience - entertaining, as expected.
Increased supplementation granularity from per-day to per-meal. Let's see how this goes.
0603 : The call to prayer is clearer, from this window seat.
0606 : 37.26% of sabbatical2 today. Finally, for once in my life, making Bash and Git the main subjects of my study. It seems reasonable to give these till 40%, or roughly August 21. But then, I expect other distractions to appear, so this timeframe is for discussion's sake mainly.
1300 : enforced waking
2013 : Just started remedial reading on electricity.
Kinda stopped at spm, and didn't pursue it further. Rewired my home today and realised I don't actually understand alternating current wiring from Power station to home.
Chances upon this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(physics)
So that's a good data structure for use in cognitive science. Every type of sensory nerve ending creates a ""field"".
Aug12 s2 m5 w20 d137 37.53%
0519 : Sabbatical 2, month 4, was mostly devoted to volunteer work. Month 5 seems to skew back to core studies. I believe I have not yet recovered optimal cognitive pace, as I am only sleeping about 7 hours a day. In college I calibrated sleep to 10 hours a day, for optimal presence of mind ... since it is not easy to detect suboptimal performance from the underperforming point of view, I generally rely on the heuristic of establishing a 10 hour per day point of view, before judging my current performance.
Anyway. The past two years have generally not been 10 hour days, as I have lived mostly among other people's schedules. Driving at lower power is great for anthropology, but there are times when one really ought not to wait around.
I need to get back into shape. B12 protocols are being reemphasised now that I've updated my model of B12 reliance with the melatonin hypothesis taking precedence over the stimulus dependency hypothesis.
Gotta keep testing. Gotta get good, again.
1427 : At the risk of offending the Royal institutions :
It's election season again! Driving around, looking at the locals and reflecting on our culture, the first thing that comes to mind is that we are basically a bunch of vainglorious leaders followed by a ragtag population.
That's all.
2225 : I was looking through a list of the most influential fashion designs of our time ... #14 is de la Renta, the first straight-ish man on the list. Ahead of him are three straight-ish women, and everyone else (10 of them) are gay or bi. What a shape!
Things I think I know enough about :
- quantifying human consciousness
- modelling people as information systems
- home economics
- facilities management
- working a room full of people
- accounting
- web design
- music
Things I don't think I know enough about :
- physics
- fashion design
- financial engineering
- math
- computer programming
- civil engineering
Aug13 s2 m5 w20 d138 37.81%
0436 : It's been a good-ish day. I am back on track with my life. Syllabus lined up. Chores clear.
No revenue.
No insurance.
No pleb deliverables.
Just waiting for my turn, to expire.
It's a good day to die. Better than average.
1445 : attack. looks like 10 proper sleep hours today
1640 : groomed. fed. preparing to read.
Aug14 s2 m5 w20 d139 38.08%
0618 : Zero-inbox is cool, but have you ever zero-d your browser bookmarks? I'm working on it now ... I think I've been accumulating since before sabbatical-one, 2011. Also I think I've so many Pocket saves that at some point they stopped being able to load my links -_-
1154 : soon to bed
1612 : a short nap, then got up to eat; did some painting chores.
Aug15 s2 m5 w20 d140 38.36%
0030 : Towards the end of a 36 hour period with a few hours of napping in between ... it was a decent day. Good mental exercise.
0230 : Tea and meditation. Psyching myself up for projects, both deskbound and social.
0400 : Need to up my calorific intake ... not getting enough insulin for muscle development.
0506 : bedtime. sleep debt might knock me into the afternoon. but it has been an enjoyable two days.
1530 : up
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Sab2 week21/52 review
DEETS: Remedial studies of computing. A lot of social choring, both old and new networks.
Aug16 s2 m5 w21 d141 38.63%
0018 : coached another f&b business owner. got groceries. talked to noisy event staff at sentul depot. filed a police report after there was no change in behaviour - neighbors have been monitoring this for a year.
0100 : Mariekondoing my newsfeeds.
0336 : Physical conditioning facilities : premium stuff is locked up 2200-0700, that's 9 hours or 38% of the day. But during that time, the monkey bars and streets are open.
1006 : Jin are trending. For those of you who know me, the only jin I think you should worry about is my face laughing at you in your head when you close your eyes. Ok, that's all I have to say about jin for now.
1010 : Interrupts. Stuff that I grew up with, in computing. Never properly understood it. Studied other stuff for competitions, but convenient skipped over this sort of thing. 25 years of ignorance ... well prioritised, I feel. Perhaps I should have sorted out body-building and diet before I did more intellectual studies - perhaps not so well-prioritised. But fixing it at 39, better late than never. I am having a happy week, mostly back in-line with my work paused in 2012.
1120 : nap time
1645 : awake again.
Aug17 s2 m5 w21 d142 38.9%
0210 : serious reading begins for the day. Yesterday, Bash studies led to an examination of POSIX pipelines, and from there further remedial study of computer engineering was required - I also managed to install Pocket on Android, and found that unlike the web version, Android Pocket works fine-ish, and I can access the two to three thousand links I have been bookmarking since 2011 or so. Map, reduce. Let's reduce it ASAP. Jerng is tired. But this is a good format for being tired.
0640 : Getting around to work put on hold for 25 years ... is a surreal experience. You don't actually imagine it happening, you just wait and see. Then it happens, and you think, ""ah, this is kinda cool"".
0945 : down:
1700 : up
1923 : back to reading
2222 : a little swim. Seeing a lot of fun-looking BOD jobs in the 25-35k range. But gotta maintain discipline and just ignore it for now - I'm still following-up on work from 1998, 2011, and 2019 ... this life is weird, I guess.
Aug18 s2 m5 w21 d143 39.18%
0020 : Reading by Duffy Square today.
0530 : Things I found motivating recently :
- horror movies
- listening to people talk about things/experiences they want to buy
- night bike rides around my hometown
These all remind me of how boring the world is, and if I want anything else I have to just fix it myself.
0633 : While studying Git, segued to Bash, and then had to do a survey on file descriptors, and how POSIX pipes are implemented. So they're just stream controlled with buffers. Cool.
A few more Linux and POSIX manuals later, I'm wondering why I bother to know this - but I guess it's fundamental training.
Aug19 s2 m5 w21 d144 39.45%
0417 : CW : food and its final destination. I've been tring to raise calorific intake by increasing both my proportion of carbs and protein in lockstep. But my food is passing too quickly. It's getting through in 6-8 hours, whereas I would prefer it takes 18-36 ... I don't like wasting food.
I could just cut back and eat slower, or I could keep up the eating to see if my body adapts.
But actually the real problem seems to be that I'm not actually doing heavy exercise yet. If I think about how to bucket this very roughly, light exercise which I do nowadays is only 10x sedentary loads, and heavy should be about 10x of light.
Example :
In your home and office, moving 0.2kg 200 times a day gets you about 40kg/day of resistence. Light exercise then would be 10kg with 40 reps, and heavy would be 10kg with 400 reps.
I'm still learning how to efficiently think about physical conditioning metrics. Synchronisation of language, and force, in the embodied sense.
0526 : More fun jobs on the market. Maintaining discipline, and ignoring for now.
0611 : finally figured out how IP addresses and subnet masks work. And disambiguated my understanding of how routers work. Learnt about how MAC addresses work. Improved my understanding of the OSI.
Aug20 s2 m5 w21 d145 39.73%
0136 : Back at a desk. Working on my embarassing ignorance of how Git and Bash work.
Aug21 s2 m5 w21 d146 40%
0154 : Basking in privilege. But needful of an increase in productivity.
I also hope it doesn't take a whole month to learn all of Bash, but at this point it's starting to feel like it might.
0458 : At some point I might decide that networking are eating up too much study time - but that hasn't happened yet.
0516 : added foam padding to my microwave door - did not realise it was a thing. Hope I don't poison myself or burn down the building.
Aug22 s2 m5 w21 d147 40.27%
0458 : restarted anatomy studies, since diet and basic exercise has been rationalised. studying core muscles and bones online for a bit
0547 : perstempo, opstempo. Hmm. enforced sleep ....
1617 : Meditating on process. Waiting for the day to pass. Hoping that after social chores, there will be time for study. fatigued
1634 : Clarity of purpose is important for every enterprise. Today I'm reminding myself that my work depends on a point of view, that humanity is trivial. That market positioning is my key motivation.
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Sab2 week22/52 review
DEETS: Messy week. Too much socialising. But what is a life for anyway.
Aug23 s2 m5 w22 d148 40.55%
0024 : Back to basics. I should 100x the intensity of my control over respiratory muscles, while reading. 3D models are so much fun.
0220 : Tests of microwaved tofu have begun. I am tired, but I chalk it up to too much socialising, and not enough sleep. I got some reading in the lobby, after a swim. Bed, soon.
1520 : up - seems like 12-13 hour catch-up sleep.
Aug24 s2 m5 w22 d149 40.82%
0439 : miscellaneous shopping online. a mixed day - locked my keys in my car and had to break in again. social chores.
0604 : Many gaps in my knowledge torment me. But meat is weak and must sleep. Oh well, if I wake, I'll find out what is the next day's learning.
1900 : Jem and the Holograms is a spiritual ancestor to both the Barbie movie, and the Spider-Verse animations.
2006 : Nerd problems : sitting too firmly in a chair gets you ischial hygromas - I discovered this in college. The more common case is cyclists in their saddles.
Aug25 s2 m5 w22 d150 41.1%
0303 : Still eating to much protein per sitting - I guess it's the monomeric portion which is quickly dumped in urine. Adjusting to half. I figure 50g of which 5g is monomeric is too much.
0545 : Took 22 days since 3Aug to figured out Git submodule commands for recursive adding and committing. Cool. Does not feel productive, but many other things got done in the time.
Aug26 s2 m5 w22 d151 41.37%
0618 : Insanely social chorey week. But ok. Manageable.
Dark is definitely the German engineered version of a bootstrap paradox in literature.
1553 : Social chores, round, and around. More studies later.
1712 : found the imf bop manual. quite hAPPY
2250 : First time visiting a casino. People watching is fun. But as usual it just feels like I'm surrounded by dumbasses. Oh well, tax farming ftw.
Aug27 s2 m5 w22 d152 41.64%
1015 : Haven't worn a diaper in like five years, maybe. Bought a six pack back then and still using the leftovers.
1104 : Every few years, a bout of slightly more severe sickness allows one the opportunity to calibrate. It's a risk management exercise. Of course it feels discombobulated, and you wonder if your kidneys or liver are going to give up first. Anyway, there's so much information being swapped through this head on a weekly basis ... some weeks more, some less. Without the availability of an entire lab for testing, I just hope my self-care manages to cobble together a decent operation. On we go.
1640 : Minta cuti sakit :
Jerng ( pekerja ) : Tuan, saya sakit, hari ni, minta izin ambil cuti.
Jerng ( pengurus ) : Oh ye ke? Baik, tunggu sekejap, biar saya tanya pengarah lepastu check dengan pelanggan atas sebarang kesulitan dulu.
Jerng ( pelanggan ) : Tak pe lah, nothing urgent this week, projek ada beberapa bulan lagi.
Jerng ( pengarah ) : Pekerja diarahkan ambik cuti dengan segera.
Jerng ( pengurusi ) : Tetuan macam semua ok je.
Jerng ( pekerja ) : Ok, says cuti tmks
1651 : food poisoning - probably from too much support eating for friends.
Aug28 s2 m6 w22 d153 41.92%
0313 : stool firmed up in under 24-hours. Really just a load of crap food. Now I just need to wait for my biochemistry to restabilise ... still weak. At least, laundry is done.
0428 : Sab2 41.64% : alright, alright, alright ...
One of the key struggles in any game, is knowing that you're in a very good position ( 2-to-4 sigma ). There's very little motivation to change anything. But if you don't, it's rather unlikely you'll end the game in the 6-to-7 sigma end.
I have great friends, I was dealt a good hand. I'm just never sure how to proceed. So I guess about it.
1625 : Caught up on sleep. Cytokinetic myalgia / neuralgia mostly clear ... back to fucking work.
A good day for thinking about quality assurance for skewing from 4 to 8 sigmas.
Aug29 s2 m6 w22 d154 42.19%
0203 : revised my understanding of electricity yesterday. reading about cyphers today.
1111 : Time to phase out more old networks, and add some new ones. Somehow this has to happen while work proceeds.
1601 : Good catch up with old friends. Time for a few groceries.
1625 : I think I should start keeping track of the pattern where I actively deplatform myself, for being insensitive, only to be subsequently replatformed by the offended parties. It really is becoming a thing ...
2327 : Close to the end of day 154. Napped. Swiped. Stimulated, so enforced waking and a bit of work before more sleep.
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Sab2 week23/52 review
DEETS: Drowning in Linux architcture.
Aug30 s2 m6 w23 d155 42.47%
0637 : Small progress since 3AUG. I now roughly know how to automate (git-submodule) usage, and next I need to get the ARM binary into my FaaS layer ( container ). I think it's time for a meal and some napping. I shouldn't be disappointed with myself for slow progress, as there are many parallel studies this month.
1656 : Enforced waking, feeding, work.
2055 : So now you can Google Maps on an Android watch for $50. Yay.
Aug31 s2 m6 w23 d156 42.74%
0401 : A cool and sunny century avails,
Oneself, goes for a stroll through the young earth;
Spots of mud and stinging bugs are trivial;
Given past and future thoughts, where to ya?
0938 : ""Almost a month later, I'm happy that I've managed to improve my source control automation. This is probably child's play to most of you professionals.
As an amateur, I'm just happy to speed up my hobbies ... currently working on this ginormous git superproject. But now I can start carving it up into git submodules, and a hook just commits everything to respective repositories before execution of each code run. All this is sitting inside the AWS Lambda web-browser coding environment because I really hate AWS's SAM.""
1759 : Awake. Enforced washing and work.
2237 : A good day for meditations. Reflecting on yesterday's progress in git. Collating some study materials in accounting and finance. Reflecting on my social relationships.
Sep1 s2 m6 w23 d157 43.01%
1252 : It turned out to be a chill and productive day. Nothing to scream about, no one yelling at me, not even a gym visit. This is the least I should hope for. As for serious progress, only time will tell. bed, soon.
Sep2 s2 m6 w23 d158 43.29%
0015 : Awake. Enforced grooming, feeding, work.
0348 : My study goal for the day, is to understand how conventional computer operating systems handle teletypewriter emulators, and pseudoterminals. I mean, I use these every day, and I've even drawn simple diagrams to train staff in understanding how they work - but I don't have the detailed understanding, yet ...
0743 : 25.2C brilliant
1015 : Periodic extraction of cash from ETFs, for OpEx. Doop de doo.
Study today is hard. Good.
1131 : Time to purchase a lot of dhal.
1254 : bed
1842 : A bit of social work, after a short sleep. Five hours is half the target of ten. Perhaps I will go for a walk in a mall to stimulate my social brain parts.
2214 : Caught up with an old friend.
Everyone lives a different life.
Some of us don't know if the next job is 20 or 60. Some of us don't know if it's 5 or 50.
I suppose I'll just try to enjoy the last two months, of the first third, of my maximum life expectancy. Haha
2228 : Work will be good today. My orientation in life is simply to maintain a non-zero probability of living till 120, working each of those days, and enjoying the days as they pass, being content to die on any given day. It has been this way for a while now.
I should put this in my Tinder profile. LOL
Sep3 s2 m6 w23 d159 43.56%
0108 : Convergence is harder than divergence - a neutral position requires compromise. It always feels like I'm running out of time - but that's a good thing, since the goal was to find something to do with all the extra time.
0139 : The few circles I've been in generally have not helped me to develop much over the past two decades. I've relied mostly on internal motivation. I shall continue to do so, but with a view to diversify, given that the earlier foundational priorities have been addressed.
0308 : Study mode. 2023's environment has been as privileged as 2001-5's. Nothing in between really compares - I've spent a lot of time dumpster diving to learn things, that's for sure.
The utility of a vista, whether from a balcony, or al fresco, is to give the brain an alternative study subject, which functions as rest and recuperation of the organ from a main set of studies.
I will need to be nimble in shifting between these, actively. I also need to apply carefully my understanding of the ongoing negotiation between autonomous and conscious control systems in the body.
I am not excellent at this, but I will become so.
0400 : went for a walk about Jalan Ipoh. It's a brightly lit ghost town.
0454 : Why am I learning how to implement Linux kernel drivers? I was not supposed to know how to implement Linux kernel drivers. Ok, I guess in order to understand how the god damn shell applications work, I have to know how to implement Linux kernel drivers. So I should eat my cereal and get back to learning how to implement Linux kernel drivers -_-
0741 : A beautiful Sunday morning. Time for bed.
1234 : Tentatively scheduled to meet some friends of friends at some point. Recollecting my sense of protocol, so as to be polite. Generally I tend to introduce myself as a nerd. I have technical interests, such as business, and engineering ... even art history, and education/defelopment. But with regards to things like eating, drinking, travel, dancing, familial sentiments, esprit de corp, gadgets, lifestyle knick-knacks from a less technical lens ... I find these quite mundane, and tend to excuse myself early so as to avoid irritating others. Maybe it is just the wrong corp.
1242 : Enforced feeding.
1524 : renap
2030 : awake again
2058 : Awake. Let's get the last hour of the gym ...
2200 : Gym. It has been less than a year since I started counting calories and amino acids. Sometimes I wish I'd started earlier. The first time I used a weights room was in college, in 2001. I didn't think it was a priority to rationalize at that time. I was probably right, because I had not yet done any intense physical labour for sport or industry up to that point. It was only after college that I gained a context for any optimisations. I guess, it's like needing to work before you do an MBA.
2204 : One Piece looks better directed than Bebop.
2308 : Snacking post gym. Third day on this subject. Ready, set, smash ...
Sep4 s2 m6 w23 d160 43.84%
0626 : TIL the ""more sandwich"" you get by halving a square sandwich diagonally, instead of orthogonally, is the 13.8% greater edge length.
Sep5 s2 m6 w23 d161 44.11%
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Sab2 week24/52 review
DEETS: Sordid week for studies. Too many socials.
Wed Sep6 s2 m6 w24 d162 44.38%
0006 : The only difference between a collaborator and an iconoclast is that one is less pained by conflict than the other. The nature of socially insensitive people is to contribute high-risk mutations to the collective.
0126 : Sabbatical 2 [ m6 w23 d161 44.11% ]. Studies are getting quite interesting. Social life is still a major distraction. I barely know anyone in town, and I'd like to meet more people. However, priorities ... and synergies ... I have neither the time nor money to spare for a while. So I should deprioritise meeting new people for the rest of the year. I guess it'll stay near the top of my low-priority list.
0340 : break
0717 : up
0956 : Stuff I learnt about elevator speed costing in Malaysia : 2.0 to 3.5 meters per second, and if you install the slow one, renovation cost is RM300k-400k per lift, for parts and structural shaft upgrade.
Thu Sep7 s2 m6 w24 d163 44.66%
0231 : Up. Enforced food and work.
0345 : It turns out that the best way to do roast tofu, is the same as doing frozen sausages. A microwave is used to thoroughly boil and dehydrate the item, then an oven (nowadays ""air fryer"") is used to sear it.
0808 : gym. weak - perhaps more food and exercise are needed.
1036 : Pretty stressed on Linux stuff from 2SEP to 7SEP. Gonna just print the notes now, and iterate.
1451 : Day off - time for a weekly performance review. Looking at the past 10% of the period (36-ish days). Progress has been ... mediocre. A lot of social networking. But overall, the network appears to be of limited future value. I will figure out what discipline to enforce in this area.
1515 : I have a friend who has lived in Malaysia all his life, without our citizenship. He is very good at baking in the French style. He will probably disagree with me, but I think he and is family have a better chance of getting citizenship there than. There they value culture - here we are obsessed with blood.
Fri Sep8 s2 m6 w24 d164 44.93%
0738 : 45% of the study period will have passed today. I need to be more disciplined about time and money, and physiology.
Today I will do some housekeeping.
Sat Sep9 s2 m6 w24 d165 45.21%
0725 : Yesterday's focus was housekeeping. Today begins with a social venture.Can a dude unironically say, ""he has not a care in the world"", if he dedicates his life to figuring out the best ways to waste time? I think not, but I do not.
1119 : reading corner built.
Well, I rarely bother to look, but the market's been so quiet that it begged review. BTC technicals looks like a rally is due in 5-10 days, mid-Sep. Let's see what happens.
1418 : Walk in the park and chit chat with new friend.
2359 : a mostly social day.
Sun Sep10 s2 m6 w24 d166 45.48%
1641 : Hm. I think I need to modify my dietary/budgetary protocols. What if I go out indiscriminately, but maintain a $4.20 limit per meeting? Make it MYR 20. Hm. I think I need to modify my dietary/budgetary protocols. What if I go out indiscriminately, but maintain a $4.20 limit per meeting? Make it MYR 20.
This should be a general priority budget, particularly for maintaining existing relationships. For meeting new people, the priority is high, so I should loosen the limits somewhat, if at all.
Mon Sep11 s2 m6 w24 d167 45.75%
0923 : Good morning, world. The agenda for today is, laundry, reading, and a dialogue with the autonomous nervous system.
1036 : It's clear that Accounting, Engineering, and Law, are contemporary liberal arts. It's always weird that the liberal arts programs don't display an understanding of what makes a liberal art, a liberal art. (Cicero reminds me of me.)
1233 : Breakfast protocol test : creatine, coffee or tea, chased with macros.
2210 : Painfully reminded today that not all Pizza Hut pizzas are made from tomato sauce and cheese.
2211 : So far the creatine, caffeine, macros protocol is working, and I've done it twice today, with some running around in between. More tests.
Tue Sep12 s2 m6 w24 d168 46.03%
2241 : Draggy day. Adjusting to creatine protocol. Also spent 15% waiting for a device repair for a friend.
2254: Endocrinology and sex. I was mainly checking about post-coital malaise ( up to 24 hours ); so generally after orgasm, it's prolactin up, dopamine down. I guess I'll try a protocol of resistence training after orgasm days, to try and notch up more dopamine. Gym gym gym ...
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Sab2 week25/52 review
DEETS: Physiology dominated the week - bodybuilding, diet, sex-related endocrinology, the role of histamine everywhere ... dietary calibration.
Wed Sep13 s2 m6 w25 d169 46.3%
1020 : Awake. Social chores. Then back to work.
1111 : Maybe I should extend my study break till 150%. I'm at about 46% right now.
1519 : Stretched on the dining room floor. Good to have more space now.
1654 : operational testing of diluted shower gel indicates it might take me 10 years to finish this tank of about 20L remaining LOL
1731 : Pacific Garbage Patch : 100,000 tons sounds like a big deal ... until you compare it to the average tonnage of a cargo ship, around 200,000 tons, and the maximum tonnage of a cargo ship, around 600,000 tons.
1902 : a quiet day of tidying and reprioritisation. i am not sure if it is the creatine protocol. hm. otherwise not reading today
Thu Sep14 s2 m6 w25 d170 46.58%
0324 : Yesterday (Wednesday) : mostly focused on kinesthesiology (not so much kinesiology - I think I finally picked up on the difference between these). Got in about 116g of protein, or 222% of ( bodyMass_kg / 1000 g/kg ), and about 2.2 Mcal. Probably need to diversify whole food sources a bit more. Not a lot of thinking about verbal work, perhaps because of this study.
1616 : Gymmed. Up to 100lbs resistance on some machines.
R&D :
I tried aubergine raw. It was ok.
I tried aubergine microwaved. There's an interesting phase (2 mins) where ... it goes soft and some water comes out, but the shape is retained so it is like a marshmallow. 5 mins is kinda boring. 7 mins is another surprise ... ""they stand very tall, but are mostly dehydrated; the taste is nuttier, as I think, some browning reactions have begun; and they are very cute. ; very gooey after you rehydrate while chewing lol; like sticky candy""
1757 : Despite almost thirty years of avoiding systems programming ... experience has brought me the the study of how to write operating systems. I am not sure that is progress for civilisation, but it's definitely progress for me. I guess my higher-level interests in business will have to be delayed further.
2022 : What it is to be a student : being not very clever, the operation of study is simply to drown all available types of memory ... verbal, kinesthetic, socio-emotional, etc. ... in data, and then wait to let the autonomous / subconscious figure out how to proceed. Meanwhile one sits and observes the passage of time. The higher the risk of destroying the mind, the less predictable the operation of study.
Fri Sep15 s2 m6 w25 d171 46.85%
0057 : Unfollowing a ton of pop culture pages, after a couple years of catching up.
0435 : Happier when my friends are safe. Sadder when I have fewer ways to support them.
1036 : Awake. Feeding. Not sure where to engage with productivity, but will figure it out. Maybe a tanning session.
1230 : evening plans cancelled; will go kaypoh around town to see what the fuss was supposed to be about
1303 : Studying the relationship between bodybuilding, histamine, and study. I guess the point to note is that brain fog can be an immune response to certain inputs. So regardless of inputs, one should just call in sick, behave sick, and focus on recovery. Regarding food that passes too quickly, I should refocus on chewing.
1352 : Maybe it's just the inflammatory stress of dozens of joints and muscle realigning - typically happens when one starts ramping up physical conditioning from a sedentary state. The parts that get me the most usually are around the neck and jaw. My teeth start to realign themselves.
Anyway. Going for a kaypoh bike ride in KL. Let's see how this goes.
1702 : ""I've figured out that my current brain fog is related to exercise. mast cell response involved in sending white blood cells to repair muscle, etc.
;so i decided to just behave sick and smack my immune system until it behaves.""
2054 : Up next - spending special allocations of time on interoception meditations to sort out all the extra data from anabolic inflammation.
2216 : If you think about the afferent somatic data, you can figure out how to reduce the latency of afferent-efferent feedback loops. If you don't think about the afferent data, the nerves carrying those connections will atrophy, and fade away, so the entire capital expenditure of time spent abusing the flesh to generate neural growth factor / NGF to generate those nerves, will be written-off. Using nerves retains nerves.
How much capital expenditure on nerve growth have we written off, just like that?
2329 : Monkey bars. Did that 30 years ago. Postponed 30 years. Good project to get back to. 0.1% chance I can become David Belle. Haha. Maybe I can figure out how to BMO punching bag up there.
Sat Sep16 s2 m6 w25 d172 47.12%
1942 : Maybe brain fog over the past coupla days was just hypo-x-emia. Noob mistake for not checking mineral levels. Anyhow, recalibrated supplements again. Did laundry. Sitting down to desk in a bit. Finally
Sun Sep17 s2 m6 w25 d173 47.4%
0300 : Tired, but today was more productive, after dietary calibrations.
1251 : Awake. Let's see if the diet is fixed yet.
1525 : metamorphosis should not be rushed
Mon Sep18 s2 m6 w25 d174 47.67%
1247 : Maybe after I am done studying computers, I should just follow the traditions of my caste and find a job as a bond trader.
2030 : Compiling a history of computing from the Babylonians till present-day feels like I'm finally doing the CS degree I skipped in college. ( The college I attended didn't have a CS major. )
Tue Sep19 s2 m6 w25 d175 47.95%
0230 : I reflect on the views of people in my circle. It is a pity that many people depend on the approval or esteem of others. In fact that is the majority. It is a pity. Perhaps one day a majority will not prioritise this. But that is not likely to be seen very soon. :)
1440 : laundered and fed
1530 : back to desking - started foreign language podcasts for diversification
1855 : If I had to design my life to be simple : I would rather not have to know how to build and maintain
(1) built environments
(2) cars and computers
(3) companies and governments
(4) bodies
However, it was not my fate to be a simpleton, so I have come to know these things. For better, or for worse.
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Sab2 week26/52 review
DEETS: Did some relationship maintenance. Studied a bunch of linguistics and DRAM things. Worked on physical conditiong. Fought histamine.
Wed Sep20 s2 m6 w26 d176 48.22%
1433 : Slow driving day, mostly in the first lane. Observing computational stress levels and looking for optimisation opportunities. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
1540 : Current study stack : (ends) civilisational administration
... < money < mathematics < software development
... < POSIX pipes < terminals & shells
... < display managers < kernels
... < bootloaders
(means)
Thu Sep21 s2 m6 w26 d177 48.49%
Fri Sep22 s2 m6 w26 d178 48.77%
0213 : Mostly I am not relevant to my fellow citizens. I don't earn what they earn ( I earn more, but sometime I earn zero ), and I don't spend what they spend ( I spend less money, but more time ). There are various things I should withhold comment on. But since morals are arbitrary, I comment anyway just to see what happens. One day, it will kill me.
0309 : These two weeks have been themed about autonomic nervous system imbalances.
1132 : I am histamine's bitch
1152 : 51.8kg dry (ish) ... long way up to go ...
1213 : I was recently reviewing the hipster cafe scene in Malaysia, and it seems my wee five-year project had more impact on on the industry than anything I see that's still standing. So, regretfully, the industry seems rather stagnant. Hubris.
1346 : Optimisations today :
- Muscles : concept of eccentric contraction : can be applied in calisthenics, where two antagonistic muscles groups are made to take turns, in other words, alternating slow movements can result in hypertrophy.
- Food and beverages for chemical and exteroceptive stimuli : concept of fasting : instead of locating F&B at the work station, it can be located further away in order to lengthen the fasting phase, to allow for more focus on work.
2003 : Mental conditioning adjustment : sensory short-term memory is not clearing quickly enough.
So, I need to more actively analyse each frame into its component sense modalities, to speed up identification of which images in which sense modalities are ghosting / stuck.
2153 : Reading up on ancient China ... since I'd just covered the ancient Levant ... which collecting a history of writing and number systems ... on the way to figuring out Linux bootloading :P
2158 : The integrated information theoy / IIT drama - Haha ... well personally, I have been on the sidelines. Around 2003 I figured out that I could model everything in my head as an information system, but it didn't seem efficient to try and write or publish about it. I'll leave that to the academicians.
It's more fun to just prove the point by building towards machines that are indifferentiable from meat.
Sat Sep23 s2 m6 w26 d179 49.04%
0328 : A slow, tiring, month, full of various social and physiological distractions.
Lots of boring work left to do. Grind away.
1406 : Awake. Clearing inboxes. Getting ready for another boring day. Lock and load ...
Sun Sep24 s2 m6 w26 d180 49.32%
0348 : Pigeons deterrence : laser pointers work - but there is a timing technique involved ... one has to do percussively timed flashes, so aiming is a fine-motor issue beyond 30m or so. Will they adapt? Let's see.
Based on current range tests with this unit, it's remarkable how offensive a $2 tool can be.
Mon Sep25 s2 m6 w26 d181 49.59%
0200 : TIL ""body-doubling"" ... a.k.a. spotting, or co-X-ing. LOL
0413 : Calibrated against a photo of myself at deskwork, taken by a friend ... I'm still hunching. So, it seems that anything short of constant back-actuation results in a hunch. Which is to say ... if I keep getting tired of ideal posture ... it is the edurance limitation on POSTURE which should limit my desk sessions, and not my verbal attention span. OMG mindblown ( or rather, finally facing up to a common fact ).
Integrating also that study that aerobic exercise relocates white blood cells temporarily to the lungs and gut.
1422 : Awake. Pain check. Social check. Autonomic neural stress check.
Interoception, exteroception, interoception ...
... after that, exteroception: desk work
2023 : Enforced resistence training.
2355 : UDIMM, RDIMM, LRDIMM, DQ, DQS ... wow, RAM is complicated - but I haven't really studied this since 1998, so I deserve to get stuck for a bit now.
Tue Sep26 s2 m6 w26 d182 49.86%
0238 : fuck. Between paywalled JEDEC standards and foundry copy-writing obfuscation ... learning about how RAM works today is a PITA due to piss-poor reporting on the Internet.
0651 : bed
1613 : Morning weigh-in : 51.7kg ... long way up to go.
Friend recommended a poly FB group : I think I wrote the wrong interview answer ... I was too intent on filtering out my normal ""no lives matter"" response that I wrote ""all lives matter"", but that's technically the wrong answer. Oh well ... joined a bunch of similar groups to diversify my success rate. Haha ... you can see how I approach things like this.
2212 : runtime
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At the die-level of computing hardware, I'm wondering if market forces will ever make it viable to increase circuit error rates, and to have government statistical logic over swarthes of lower-reliability circuits configured in a non-deterministic configuration. This would then open the door to the practicality of computers that function like biological or sociological entities ( with the corresponding vulnerabilities ).
( Comment on a gripe about dysfunctional product management. )
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It sounds like your "team" has weak components. Let me break down the system architecture of a commercially viable team for you.
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Premise / Ontology :
There are THREE key stakeholders, or nodes.
1. Capitalists / investors : who pay first, whether in time, money, or other capital.
2. Staff / labour / talent : who get paid first, to execute work.
3. Customers : who pay last, and close the loop.
In the pre-commercialisation stage of a business, you only have nodes 1. and 2., ( example if you own the venture, then you are both ). But you are LOOKING FOR 3., which is a customer to actually pay cash. So this is NOT YET a viable venture, as the loop is not yet closed.
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Mission / Ethics :
In order to close the loop, (to simplify) everyone looks at 2. The situation you found difficult was the work within team 2. This team is collectively responsible for delivering 3. - of course there are different alternative divisions of labour in order to get 3.
If you prefer to divide the labour along the lines of :
2.1. talks to potential customers
2.2. talks to 2.1. and builds prototype goods and services
This is already sub-optimal, as it DOUBLES the number of hops information has to traverse between the customer and 2.2. Lets say you're committed to this model, which I'll call the 2N situation. In an ideal state 2.1. and 2.2. are the same fellow, which I'll refer to as the 1N situation.
2.1. and 2.2. need to focus only on cycle-time, whereby a cycle is measured as : the time between (A) when there was a hypothesis about what would cause the customer to change what they're paying (0 to 1) or (1 to N), and (B) when there is evidenced cash in hand for the change.
You are right in hypothesising non-essential features for deprioritisation. But how did you quality non-essential features? I would propose the only thing that mattered should have been "did any feature change the timing of prospective customer's conversion into a paying customer."
That's the only objective at this stage, (0 to 1) or (non-viable, to viable) or (open-loop to closed-loop).
Deliver 3.
Social mores : a person who has developed their minds around a fundamental concept of fungible economics value, "money", may experience trauma if this concept is disrespected in speech. In order to avoid traumatising such people, it is polite to establish "respect", with regards to the concept of money, and to approach any alternative data architecture "with care".
