Author: justinaquino
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Calling it Laziness is Lazy
After all the improvements I had worked out in my life I realized more and more that laziness is the…
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Chinese update
100% npcr 12, 49 items and about 30 mins. So I built the tones into the exercise. I need to…
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What is the conditions for optimal study to practice ratio
The best in a quick (2 min search and verify) for what I’m looking for : practice to study ratio.…
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Chinese update
NPCR lesson 12 43mins, 45/49 I realized I need to practice my tones more. So as I write the characters…
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Personal Time and Motion of small things.
it takes me about 5 mins to work with my reference document system (finding the right set of notes in…
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Breathing, and Running Mechanics.
i forgot how much the breathing part of my run mattered. The “right” way to breath (belly breathing in a…
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Conditional Success, Significant Actions
Conditional Success is basically replacing failure with an Extreme cost for Success. The Margin of Failure determined how much it…
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Driving More; means more time for my Text to Speech app
So I have to drive the wife more because shes at 37 weeks and I still need to “manage by…
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Character Actions, becoming Character Limits.
I read Atul Gawande’s Checklist Manifesto and it dawned on me how Dungeon World really helped with the Character Options List…
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Exercise Routine
This is an exercise routine that uses soldier Physical Fitness Exams as benchmarks. It emphasizes strength and endurance so that…
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Good on Paper, but not Practical
As I’ve finished C in Dr. Arthur Hill’s Operations Managmeent Encyclopedia there are a lot of ideas and ideals I…
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Subjective Feelings as a Benchmark in Physical Stress
A feat of strength really should have recovery as part of the formula. Like a 2-min or 10-sec recovery between…
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Accepting Limits, and more constructive Regret
There are a lot of things I want to do, but have no real output. Open RPG Project. There is…
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Finished The Long War: Killer of men, Marathon, and, Poseidon’s Spear
These books makes me want to run a GURPS game set in that era (early 5C BCE). Although I would…
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Exercise update
47min, 8km, 5:47min /km,nike 49mins, 6.11km, star trac 3.2km or 2mi in 14lb rig at average of 6kph and 2.0…
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Leaner Habits and Reflections
So I would like to have an update on my quest to make my habits leaner. Whats changed recently is…
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Chinese update
Better from 33% to 70%. 30mins each. So many errands and inefficiencies in how I spend time. I don’t count…
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Chinese update
12:30 to 2:11 33% npcr 9 It was painful and effort ass 4/5 if I measure the concentration by how…
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Motivational vs Practical Self Improvement.
How to differentiate Motivational/Inspirational vs Practical Self Improvement? This is my Tentative List. 1) Actionable. Its an action or set…
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Chinese Update, Tactics, Pinyin Keyboard, and Cal Newport
Chinese studies ran long: Decided to add more to my training. Particularly trying to make best use of the one…
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Chinese update
Time to move to the next chapter 9, and repeat the process. It’s also time to shift to the npcr…
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Chinese update, Deepwork
50 mins. Performance 3/5, effort 3/5. This is npcr 6-8. Trying to think in deep work. More unbroken hours of…
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Deep Work Review and Reflection
Just finished Deep work last night. Like many big books there are a few things I can really take away…
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Chinese update
Making a small dent on chapter 8. And then I need to reherse all chapters. I realized trying to get…
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Chinese update
Only had time now. Work was distracting and it didn’t help that everyone around me was sick. I could not…
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Work Update
Recent Lessons: 1) document as I go. Everything is overwhelming my capacity for attention. Its best to always document so…
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Patience
Patience noun noun: patience 1. the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. “you…
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Distractions and focus
My main barrier of converting most of my distractions into usefully spent time is how much of start up time…
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Krups 5210 espresso machine broke 8-17-2016
After 11 months of use (bought july 7 2015) even we owned it for 13 months its finally broken in…