This is my 2nd or 3rd attempt at calendialish journalling. Intentionally cryptic motivation: I found reason to reevaluate whether to adjust my relationship with Beeminder. This thread will serve that purpose, I hope!
Here’s what beebudget.deno.dev is reporting at the moment.
A few weeks back I’ve started going through CS:APP and SICP both at a pretty ambitious rate: ~25 minutes a day (0.41 hours/day to be precise)
At this ambitious rate, with two activities similar to each other, I’m getting a bit tired.
Besides, I’m expecting weeks where I’ll need to travel.
So I want to:
I feel like can go through next week just not derailing… but I at least want to have some more breathing room after that.
p.s. visual graph editor keeps hanging… I initially wanted to keep the goal date and total fixed, so that I’d be reminded of the impact of this change. But well, here’s the configuration pre this change. Goal date: 2026-11-22 / Total: 150 / Daily slope: 0.41209
cs-comp-arch is still the highest loading goal. cs-struc-inter the one after that.
It’s now a certainty that I’ll travel in the coming weeks to support family with healthcare.
So:
They both got halved. That’s +2 for the calendialing goal. (I’m ratcheting calendialing goal to 7 days from now, too.)
(My calendial goal is orange, so here we go:)
I’m really happy with the earlier changes. I’ve managed to get both of the goals into safe territory before I traveled abroad.
Beebudget reports my running goal as the highest loading goal. I have my running gear with me as I’m away from home, I’ll be back home in 9 days, and otherwise I’m happy with the rate. So no changes.
When I made beebudget, I wanted to try out the idea quickly. It uses the goal configuration (which I believe means the last segment of the red line). Now that I’m using Beeminder in a slightly different way, this isn’t working well for me anymore. Until the next calendialing, I may fix that, or complicate the playbook to account for this.
Beebudget reports my general deck spaced repetition as the goal that’ll require the most time until Jan 7.
Beebudget now reports what I need 
So the statement above is based on the red bright line.
This is worthy of the time I’m putting in. At about 15 minutes per unit progress and 0.71/day, this goal doesn’t need dialing.
Beebudget points to my CS:APP study goal.
Mentioned earlier in this topic, I’m studying this alongside SICP.
Leaving the why aside, this is part of a larger plan to study https://teachyourselfcs.com/ curriculum.
I grabbed onto their anchor and set out to study 150 hours spread over about a year:
This is the lowest level Computer Science material I’ve ever studied besides a introduction to computing course I took about 15 years ago. I find it mildly interesting and fun.
After ~13 hours and 1 derailment (a silly 5$ one, due to New Year’s Eve), a few things are clear to me:
So I’m dialing this goal down:
