Update 2019-05-13
Summary
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Number of goals | 42 |
| New goals this week | 1 |
| Goals scheduled for archive | 3 |
| Newest goal | overkill (2019-05-07) |
| Oldest goal | worktime (2018-06-05) |
| Highest pledge | work-commitments ($2430.0) |
| Total pledges | $2685.0 |
| Derails this week | 3 |
| Systems upgrades this week | 7 |
Random Goal: fam
This goal helps me to remember to call my family. It’s been working very well for me so far.
New Goals
overkill: Created 2019-05-07. This is a new goal I’ve been playing with as an alternative to directly beeminding buffer. I tried beeminding buffer a couple of different ways, but it just wasn’t working for me. I think because I have so many goals doing that directly becomes quite challenging. So this goal aims to beemind an input instead of the output (buffer).
Currently, this goal gets a 1 every time the following criteria are met:
- The sum of the day’s values for a given goal is greater than 1 or the goal was already on the good side of the road. This prevents binary goals from getting an overkill when I’m just doing the minimum to get back on the good side of the road.
- The sum of the day’s values for a goal is at least 1.1x the goal’s daily rate. In other words, I’m doing at least a little bit more than is required to break even.
The idea behind having this goal is that I can up my commitment in order to force myself to start putting in the effort to build up a buffer on my goals.
I also have it in the back of my head to create another goal called “preemptive” which would get data points whenever I made progress on a goal that was already in the green. I like the idea, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Derails
- av-wp6-time: 2019-05-12. Legit. This derail happened because I forgot I didn’t have weekends off on this goal until it was too late on Friday to do enough to have Saturday off, and I try to guard my Saturdays religiously, so derail it was. This is part of what prompted me to write a custom break-scheduling script.
- email-zero: 2019-05-07. This derail was not legit, but is worth mentioning. I changed my inbox-zero goal to a custom goal with its aggregation set to nonzero. This means that all the times I cleared my inbox multiple times in a day got aggregated down to a 1 per day, which immediately derailed the goal. I think the new rules will make the goal more useful in the long run, though, as archiving a single email three times in one day to build up a large amount of buffer is quite counter-productive to the goal’s purpose.
Scheduled for Archive
- oil-appointments: Since I work for home and my wife works for an interpreting agency, I basically never drive and she basically always has the car. I was nervous that this would make it difficult for me to meet this goal since it would require coordination with her to set up an appointment. I’m not sure if this is a good excuse, and I may cancel the archive… We’ll see.
- read: I’ve really gotten into the idea of having individual goals for reading books. It’s much more interesting to be able to say, “At this rate, I’ll finish this specific book by this specific date” than it is to say, “At this rate, I’ll have read this many pages by such-and-such a date, and perhaps not finished any books at all.” So I’m going to be trying using individual book goals instead of a single “read” goal.
- work-commitments: This goal has been completely supplanted by a plurality of other worktime goals. This goal served its purpose when I was still too nervous to hold myself to a set amount of hours per week, but I’m past that point, so this goal is no longer needed.
Overkill Top 5
- tw-urgency: 2. This is a tracking goal, so the fact that it made a couple overkills isn’t really that interesting.
- vivo-steps: 2. Same with this one. I should really start excluding these tracking goals…
- tr-time: 2. This is my TaskRatchet time tracking goal. These overkills were well-earned. I spent quite a bit of time learning and working on getting interviews in the past week, so much so that I’ll probably be needing to retroratchet soon.
- walk: 2. These overkills were earned. I have quite a bit of buffer in this goal, and a couple days last week I took two walks in a day instead of one. I may consider archiving this goal, as my deflate goal has been carrying the weight of both goals I think.
- read: 2. This has been a pretty conservative goal, so these overkills aren’t that impressive. The goal is scheduled for archive, so nothing needs changing otherwise.
A skeleton of this summary was generated using a Python script and then carefully filled in by hand.