Email's been having my ass this past half decade.
I recently learnt how to quick-convert dozens of marketing emails into a Gmail filter. Wish I learnt it ten years ago. Then again, maybe the "filter emails like these" button wasn't there till recently.
Anyway, now my MO is to label all emails, and to have no distinction between Archive and Inbox. Archiving without labelling is procrastination ... Archiving with labelling is trivial.
One Inbox!
20Dec
I can only hold on to a bar for a coupla minutes. I should aim for 20. Time to start measuring.
Washed, cleaned bathroom, groomed. Back to work.
21Dec
Caffeine probably results in reduced reflection, resulting in a need for active countermeasures following ingestion. So, enforced reflection needs to increase, proportionate with caffeine ingestion.
Today involves a lot of didacticism on syntax : hiring contracts, and data query specifications.
TIL :
1. in order to move fast in a highly regulated HR environment, all HR staff should be hired from legal backgrounds, or at least have the capability to read laws and write contracts.
2. pseudocode can have a formal definition : a 1-to-1 isomorphism with code, which is readable by a natural language reader; now we can test coders for pseudocode skill levels
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1mtkiara really needs to lose the plastic cladding before they lose anymore tenants
22 dec
Still drifty on the Kerinchi Link. Probably need to deflate rear-end down to 29psi because the backseats are out.
Compiling curl on a 2010 MBP to test cloud transcription services ... what a bottleneck ...
Stupidly busy week because ai make stupid choices. Mostly high RAM context switching.
M4 is as well paced as M1. Let's just hope they don't make two stupid sequels. Of course they will ..
25 Dec
[redacted]
26 dec
Noon.
I have a mantra that is useful at this part of the day.
Enforced shower.
Enforced feeding.
Enforced work.
Took 83 minutes to figure out how to file claims for $169. Nice, but not nice.
29 dec
Fuck my life. Yesterday was a stupid day and it's about to be followed by another long and stupid day.
Leaving price to the end of a sale negotiation is a waste of a time for price-sensitive customers. But this is exactly what most hiring managers do.
I need to try exercising more in order to reduce the hours of sleep required to recover to a specific level of health.
2022
3 jan
Cool people basically exist to be ridiculed - their identity as distinctive superiors is completely vulnerable to the notion of intentional class inversion.
5 jan
Mostly done orienting a new staff. Being reminded to increase pulse variance, I slip back into the practice of deep enforced exhalations, to stimulate the parasympathetic NS. Probably been way too hot on sympathetic NS for a coupla weeks or more. Maybe the whole last year. Or five.
[redacted] I don't know. So I'll just try to find out. As usual.
8 jan
Really. Perhaps at this point the only thing to increase PSNS stimulation rate (to compensate for caffeine use) is to either drink or exercise more, so exercise is it, again.
Bit late to the office, but back in the chair. 🚀
Cost of parking : 7.00
Cost to obtain currency for payment. : 2.70
Cost of parking after obtaining currency : 9.00
9 jan
Next focus of time is hiring an IT manager.
Found a good candidate in the pile. Might reshuffle team.
Enforced run time. About 75 minutes done.
Enforced feeding next.
Interesting case study last year :
- leader appointed prior to comprehensive evaluation
- turns out leader is partially incapable of recognising severity of lapses in execution; resulting in weak leadership
- leader's disability is identified at TIME-T
- however, after TIME-T, leader is not removed
- and, leader's leaders continue to complain incessantly about leader's disability
- and, at first I was very confused; but now I understand that leader's leaders are also partially incapable of recognising that the main issue is not the leader's disability, but that leader was appointed without a comprehensive evaluation
[Redacted]
Update : Yup ... productivity is shit because I have to stop working after a few hours to sleep in preparation for the day job. Can't even get one feature done.
10 jan
0157h PSNS adjustments before bed.
Taxi prices are up today. No qualms spending money to fix my car. Might have fixed the wrong part though - switching the bearing made a negligible difference, and the dudes didn't have time to fix the mountings. What a waste.
In other news I have been thinking about how "meditation" is quantifiable as management of each section if the nervous system. In contemporary times we're very good at managing the PNS but not so busy with the PSNS - then again that's probably my biased view. One adjusts the PNS to wake up, the PSNS to sleep, the ENS in general, and the CNS for industry. Specific techniques for each are well documented.
12jan
There are no boring cars, only boring drivers.
13jan
I'm on a short business trip, to learn about colleagues in another city. A dude who joined us a week ago also volunteered, so he's getting clerical duties. We're here now, because another dude who was supposed to do this job ... u-turned on his offer - so we're moving preemptively in case it takes too long to find a replacement - whereas we did manage to find a replacement who might even join earlier than the lost dude. Dudes. Half of me admits that I'm floating caution on the breeze, and the other half figures this is my normal risk profile. Four trainees onboarded in as many months, to build a tech team around existing resources - still costs less than the time I had to step into a burning accelerator to consolidate a bunch of issues. Weird. Weirdness never goes away if you don't tolerate predictability.
Kiddo's sleeping, and I'm up with my tablet and a night light, staring at myself in the mirror which faces my bed head. [redacted] My colleagues want to know who I'm seeing - it's a joke bantered over Chinese dinner (lunch), that they can't find the photo of a girl I saw in June (everyone can see it, except you?).
It's going to be a long year. It might be more frigid than the last. I'll prepare myself to wake up for a morning meeting. Gotta be ready for anything. The year could be insane. I have another job to do besides this one. So many jobs to do. We're going to need more teams. I don't actually know if that's a solution. I bought the kid dinner, and he bought beer. Where do we go from here ... probably back to work. There is a lot of work that needs doing. A lot, a lot of work.
There's always a lot of work.
There'll always be a lot of work.
And so we won't be bored ... for now.
15jan
A middling week. More active rest required to maximise productive/high-APM minutes per week.
[Redacted]
Rest for a bit.
Awake.
Need to schedule time to exercise focal length variation in eyesight.
When it comes to hiring, experience is as overrated as certification. Both are past events, whereas hiring managers should be testing for present capabilities. Usually the main present skill that can be tested is conversation. Conversation should be tested in both textual and aural media, as capabilities can vary greatly across media for the same candidate. Beyond conversation, some jobs will require other tests.
OK - back at a desk. Chipping away at cleanups of the 2015 project.
But first a nap.
16 Jan
Career achievement : managed to keep myself in a toxic business relationship for about 4 years 4 months ... without blowing my top at anyone. Done and dusted today!
17 Jan
My notes say I'm not supposed to pivot my career to optimising for money until I'm past forty. I'm not sure if that's why I'm working for startups or if I just forgot. The boundaries are iffy. [Redacted] Haha. Well that's this morning's meditation - back to work.
No-code app development in ClickUp ... I made a HR system. OK lah. Took 1-2 days, but can replicate.
NTS Gotta read up on yield curve calculations later.
21 Jan
Hm. 1998. I managed to postpone studying firewalls for 24 years ... but now since there's work-related stuff, I'm going to start on firewalls, networking, directory services, and other Microsofty stuff.
"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."- today's indoctrination for my trainees
Ready for the weekend : time to catch up on work with fewer distractions.
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17NOV2021-19DEC2021
17 Nov
TIL : it is easy to fool someone into thinking their laptop is physically locked, when it is not.
Skill is an abstraction over achievements. Achievements happen regardless of goals. Goals can only be defined in advance in terms of strategy. Goals defined locally are referred to as tactical objectives.
So between
- skill
- achievement
- strategic goals
- tactical goals
Your subset of 2 which is against 4, can be used to evaluate 1, but you can't forecast 4. So your forecasts and KPIs must include mainly 3, only.
18 Nov
As of today, it's official. I started thinking of the median hipster cafe's attempt to make "western food" ... as roughly equivalent to the mee goreng I grew up thinking of as too common.
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Hm. Interesting study. So, as one is trained to be subconsciously analytical of data, in order to facilitate rest one can reduce data diversity to reduce subconscious fatigue. For example by dimming lighting environments, and applying monochrome filters.
19 Nov :
Back to the bushfires.
Friday nights as a salaryman : same dinner, go home, do laundry, stiff drink. I know the point of a salary is that it gets spent at some point, but what if there isn't much to spend it on in this town? 🤔 Then we have to build it? At least I'm half caught-up on sleep today - better than nothing. I guess I could see Carnage.
Indisciplined, and late to bed. Nothing much has changed in a coupla decades ... back then it was magazines and TV, now it's Instagram : work is generally less boring ...
20 Nov :
Apparently sleeping with music on needs to happen more often for stimulus. Managed to schedule two coffee meets with different business developers on different subjects. Probably should spend the rest of the day on talent management designs.
1830h too much procrastination. Back to work. But first, let us buy cucumbers.
1919h waiting for laundry to dry. Wondering about opportunity cost in terms of productive hours per alcohol unit consumed. Probably about five working hours. Hmm. Oh look, also, it's already past my bedtime, and I did no official work today.
Probably time to enforce reflection until the sheets dry.
2255h after some emergency work, and a bit of skimming articles on physics, plus catching up on documentation about the flat purchase, the laundry is mostly dry, and I should put myself to bed.
I must work harder on finding new friends, so I gotta work that top of the funnel.
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Wondering if the Special Branch is bothering to hunt down all the antivax clubs. LOL
I think it's a major motivation to work harder just being reminded about the existence of these people and the probability of their programs including falsification of vaccine records used for public transit etc.
I mean part of the complication is that you probably have antivax sympathisers in the SB itself.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not inherently opposed to antivaxxers - but I do tend to be opposed to weak enforcement of public policies.
21 Nov
0854h evaluation of sleep. Perhaps a more focused set of alarms per day.
0933h I think more air-conditioning counts as a labour optimisation that I can benefit from pay for.
1037h time to feed; much to do
I just realised that I only worry about myself, when I empathise with people who worry about me. In conclusion, I really need to be less empathetic despite recommendations to be more so. Lol. Pests : throw'em out.
Afternoon :
A coffee meet.
Evening :
Dinner.
Sauvignon blanc and squid roe. I've never had cuttlefish roe before. At a mamak shop!
Also I was very happy today to drive by Kota Raya, seeing the masses of normal people out there, back at it. I live among eggo supremacists for the most part.
Some work was done after dinner. After supper more work was done. Buit a leaderboard signal detection sheet for colleagues to reduce manual work - rudimentary, but we have to start somewhere.
Midnight traffic is awesome. From clock-out, lock-up, walk-down, autopay, Midvalley to Mayang Jaya, stepping up to the grill door, was 26 minutes.
22nov
Time to learn MySQL.
23nov
The risk management department is an extension of the finance department. Both are concerned with gambling. For example if the probability of getting fined for littering is 50%, and the fine is $1,000, and if there is a clear P&L impact of making or saving $501 including any reputational costs from littering, then the RMD basically greenlights the littering. Of course this is a cartoon example, and RMDs will be more conservative than that, but you get the picture.
24nov
Job A : starting to feel like biweekly cell group meeting.
Job B : starting to feel like daily morning chapel, and one weekly service.
Lmao #rituals #socialconditioning
I don't think I've done this much group work since 2000.
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Completing a brief study of regex before bed. Not super work related so can't do it at the office.
25 nov
Hm. Still sleeping too late, but at least this week I turn the lights off earlier.
Reviewing the list of things I do mainly for social conditioning bimbotics :
199x Chinese, school, history, Christian leadership
200x college, shirts, shoes, corporations, talent management, bars, hospitality
201x long pants, hoodies, vacations, fine dining, investment, entrepreneurship, social media
202x probably revisiting computer games I suppose, and other consumer and corporate finance things
Hm.
Time to feed.
26nov
Office noise conditions:
1. Working automated solution is to use double barriers, and sometimes double ANC. (ANC earbuds under ANC headphones).
2. Meditative/manual solution is to take more breaks, review all memories from past period (several minutes to an hour), prune out irrelevant background conversations, then re-commit pruned data to memory.
Good learning experiences!
Past11pm
Done with biz networking for the day. Complete with performative arguing over payment with the server. Tapping notes in the car. Standing by for a coupla shifts to try and move the odds of work getting done in my favour. Meanwhile probably just going to swipe through my quotas and crash.
27nov
Past noon. Awake. Affording a little contemplation. Pruning memories from the past week of business activities. Networking is logged so it can be deleted, mostly. Large obligations still require more care, so I should attend to those shortly. Smaller obligations still in chaos. I could improve the precision of my inputs significantly, with a little more effort.
28 Nov
Rev-matching on a torque converter : works better when the tachometer works, or when I'm not wearing ANC; and at lower gear ratios, not like ... 3rd gear at 110kmph.
Generally, I don't remember having heat problems with the 659cc Kancil. Maybe I was driving slower. But the 847cc Kancil seems to overheat under direct sunlight, with the AC on (meaning increased power drain, and increased radiator air intake temperature), somewhere between 100 and 110 kmph, which I guess is around 4000 to 5500 RPM, since my tacho is wonky. But the 847cc certainly seems more fuel-efficient
2123h
Two hours past bed time.
Reviewing risk factors across HR, finance, supply chain, vendors, governance, IT, and new ventures.
Hm.
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I watched a few episodes of that controversial Cowboy Bebop adaptation. I found the bug. The director did not manage enunciation and body language well, so resultingly many actors are throwing their voices like they would be in a live theatrical performance - while their full-body expressions remain stilted. This is particularly jarring with the two male leads who seem to be in character only about 40% of the time.
You can argue that this was an attempt to match the hyperbole of the source material ... but that simply brings us back to the issue of over-acted vocals, and under-acted expressions. It comes off like a high-school adaptation of Shakespeare which tries to hew closely to the script, at the expense of fluidity.
What do you think?
Like altered carbon
29 Nov
Hello, my muse seems to have updated her website. I'm so illigitimately proud of her self-actualisation. As always.
30 Nov
She : food allowances are non-taxable
Me : but they have to be regular
She : we get quarterly buffets ...
Me : omg totally explains the phenomenon of annual fucking dinners
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The most common lie is, "I'm OK."
Interestingly enough, many people are taught to do this by idiot trainers.
1 Dec
I'm generally most productive working 18 hours at a time, and sleeping at a 5:12 ratio. As a result, I avoid trying to be efficient within normal business hours. Normal business hours are basically spent waiting for other people go be free to cowork. Of course, the nature of various jobs pays you to cowork, not to work independently, so on with it. The only added complexity of late is that restaurants are mostly closed until normal business hours due to lockdown hangover. So for people who do not have a kitchen, we have food supply issues rolled-in for good measure lol. Therefore, protein powder remains the useful ration.
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Industrial education for top talent isn't about helping fresh graduates make $24,000 instead of $12,000. It's closer to letting them know that in KL the max professional fee (employee, not owner) is around $50,000 ... and letting the student figure out where they want to be in the food chain.
This moves up to around $90,000 for mid-20-somethings.
$192,000 for people hitting 30.
Etc.
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2 Dec
On time travel : It's simply because what we call "time" and "consciousness" are probably a tautology. You get down to the level of quantum phenomena and you peer behind the veil a little bit because whatever the hell consciousness is it isn't actually equipped to function in its macroscopic way at the microscopic scale.
Also, many smart people live in this ridiculous myth that ordered systems ala Marie Kondo and the artistry of that which is designed are the measure of progress to be aspired to. But by definition all aspirations to civilisation are weird and unsustainable. The normal thing is an eventual return to chaos. Civilisational progress in general is a singular accident which we happen to observe due to the properties of consciousness. Of course you can posit that the future singularity is causally antecedent in an antitime fashion, and for some reason consciousness is defined by the antitimetic decay of the singularity being observed by itself in reverse. Not a new idea in terms of time, as various traditions speak of the end of time (the beginning of antitime) as a definitive locus in the field of observed spaces.
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A coconut themed bar called Cybernut. Where the fruit are cut like Cybertrucks. Cough cough. #todaysconcept
4 Dec
Time for a break. Let's see how it takes to prep for work.
2021-12-04-1643
Ended up spending half of break talking shop with colleagues.
2021-12-05
Maru full-auto espresso machines are the best. You can calibrate your shot! Lol
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Spaghetti streets of KL:
KL "inner ring" road names :
- Jalan Istana
- Jalan Damansara
- Lebuhraya Sultan Iskandar
- Jalan Tun Razak
- Jalan Yew (not a highway wtf ... the highway circuit goes haywire at this point)
- (loopback)
Next "outer ring" :
- KESAS
- DUKE
- Selayang-Kepong Highway
- LDP (doesn't end here but you can get on the KESAS here ...)
- (loopback)
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Back to accounting for the old partnership.
2021-12-06
0028h ready for audit submission FY2021 ... I think.
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If you don't understand NFTs, it probably means you don't understand the art market. Start with a clear historical precedent. That's how big NFTs are - the art market unbound.
There's not much else they appear to be good for at this point ...
5 Dec
Confidence is a bitch. It doesn't make you more capable. It paints a target on your back. And then masses of trepidatious zombies will turn up to eat what's left of yourself in any event. So it is better not to confident, if you have a choice about it. 🤔
7 Dec
Doing LinkedIn interviews for the first time. Best experience ever - it's fast, if everyone's awake, and the quality of candidates is quite high.
36-hours from posting - I'll be taking three candidates for a campus tour already.
The return on time is so much better than Tinder ...
7 Dec
Safety note : was threatened with a punch in the face. So if anything weird happens to me, please check my emails and inquire with the audit signatories at my partnership. Thx lol.
9 Dec
Hm. I should schedule memory resets every three hours or so. Easier to remember at right angles ...
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TIR, after about 18 years of sporadic thinking about it, cybernetics is not "control + communication", rather it is "control ≡ communication".
