Another monthly update on my work-on-my-postdoc-earlier-in-the-day goal.
This month, I used a (declared in advance) flat spot for the week when I participated in a summer school. I am, technically, still gaining important skills for that same project in events like this, but it hardly makes sense to measure the effort in the same manner when I have to attend workshops and lectures on an imposed schedule. Would just gain an improbable amount of buffer and thus mess up my progress after the event.
Outside of the summer school week, I have been diligently working on my project, and I feel like this goal of mine still works great in adding the motivation to start working earlier in the day. I also have a parallel total-time goal, but if I only had that one, I would more likely only get myself to the work closer to the moment when there remains exactly this number of hours in the day. This month also feels pretty productive content-wise, probably since I moved on from mostly reading up on my topics and onto writing some pieces, conference papers etc.
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