New Year's Resolutions: Ride or Die 2024

Great! Count me in, then.
So, here’s what I am committing to. I am explaining in detail how this goal receives data from tagtime in the fine print. In a nutshell, the aim is to motivate myself to do focused work on my post-doc project earlier in the day. So the datapoints are pushed from three auxiliary goals in a way to make effort before 2pm count 3x and effort between 2-6pm 2x than anything I postpone to after 6pm.
The goal is weekends-off but I may work on weekends to build the buffer and free up another day of the week.
The goal is currently set up with 15-min-average-interval pings. If I find them annoying after a couple of months and decide to switch to standard 45-min intervals, I will multiply the graph by 1/3 - that will be, mathematically speaking, the exact same commitment.
Finally, as outlined before, I am declaring in advance that I will need the following flat spots:

  • 4 weeks for 2 visits to do research in the libraries, in Ukraine and Germany, 2 weeks each, as stipulated by my approved project plan.
  • 1 week for conference travel in late fall
  • 4 weeks in summer and 2 weeks after the conference for personal vacation
  • up to 2 weeks only if my summer school application is approved.
    I will be reporting in this thread any time I apply any of these 11-13 declared weeks (55-65 work days) of the flat spot to the graph.

Moreover, I would like to add my 30 Euros to the pot.

5 Likes