Work.
I worked late most of the days due to trying to get out a report for the Fed.
The report was very complicated or so I thought. I made a big blunder in that I didn't carefully read the email. I opened a spreadsheet I was sent and thought the user wanted the report grouped on SIC or industry code. So I spent a few days writing this report. But it turns out that I didn't look at the users requirements carefully. Anyway a lot of wasted time and effort. I also didn't ask enough questions early enough. If you wait to ask a question sometimes it's too late. If you just meet someone it's okay to ask them their name a week later. But if you've known them for three years and don't know their name it's hard to ask.
My boss asked me a question he often asks "When is it going into production?" I didn't know but IM'd Caoilte in Ireland and he told me Sept.
Boss was angry with me because it's taking too long in his mind to complete the report. I sent him a sample two days ago and he failed to look at it and finally told me after wasting two days that I was doing it wrong. MFAH!
News
The popular news that past few days was about a guy who shot a reporter and cameraman on live TV, took video and posted it to Twitter.
50 people died in Austria on a truck, seemed to be people from Libya trying to relocate.
Health
My weight is at 163.4 and I'm behind my weight goal by a couple of pounds. Had Carvel last night. Blood sugar was around 100 both times I tested it. Foot hurts still but I walked my 4 miles from work. Feeling a little lonely. My bad eyesight is bothering me. I think my high blood sugar is contributing to my eyesight. I have blurry vision and see floaters.
WOAD - Wisdom of a Dad
I realized that the book doesn't flow well and there's a lot of work left to proofread it. I'm wondering why I should spend another minute on it and I'm not sure I should. But my goal is to present my son with the book bound and professionally looking. Website could use some improvement. This morning I worked on the favicon for the site. I think I used the site http://favicon-generator.org. Editing the book has become a chore and is pretty boring.
I've been taking more pictures with the idea for the cover to be pictures of the different wisdom in the book, sort of like a Mr. Brainwash Picture.
I've put a list on my phone of the most important concepts for success. They are unordered:
- Learn from bad behavior. I didn't like the way my boss treated me, I hope I don't treat people this way
- Do the opposite of bad behavior
- Study failure and correct what went wrong
- I screwed up at work today, how can I prevent this from happening
- Have a process or checklist
- What questions to ask user when developing a report
- Alarms
- Have a team. No one ever built anything of use by themself
- PURGE - Prioritize Ur Goals Everyday
- Working overtime
- Habits
- Goals
- Time balance
- Feedback
- Deadlines
- Measure
- Don't Quit
- Be Curious
- FTAD - Finish Then Add Details
- Read nonfiction
- Automate
- Fud wud ug wug - If you do what you've done you get what you got. Change
- Success comes from spending time on something
- Buy or build tools
- Write
- Follow up
MIT - Most Important Task
I was thinking about what my most important task is and I'm not sure. I think it may be to just balance my time between the 3 goals (3G) L$F - Longevity, $ecurity and Fun.
Writing
I use the words "stuff" and "thing" too often. My book is organized poorly. Some of the issues: I was thinking of using a number scheme
- Flow of book.
- It's like a comedian telling jokes but not connecting them.
- Duplicate content
- I say the same think 3 - 4 times
Idea
I was wondering how my time is spent at work between the various software I work on:
- Excel
- VBA
- SQL
- Python
- Debugging
Fun
I feel like I'm not having enough fun. I walked through Little Italy today and passed many bars and the people inside all seemed to be having a good time.
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