Leaner Habits and Reflections
So I would like to have an update on my quest to make my habits leaner. Whats changed recently is I’ve been trying to keep logs on Work and Personal.…
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Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
Chinese update
Better from 33% to 70%. 30mins each. So many errands and inefficiencies in how I spend time. I don’t count logging or blogging my progress. I consider it a reinforcing…
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12:30 to 2:11 33% npcr 9 It was painful and effort ass 4/5 if I measure the concentration by how much I could not feel time pass. A long way…
Read more →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 of actions, or a plan. The plan is a usable…
Read more →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 hour everyday. Moving stuff around so I can just concentrate…
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Time to move to the next chapter 9, and repeat the process. It’s also time to shift to the npcr audio and just listen to pure chinese sentences and test…
Read more →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 concentration but I will give way to insightful and inspiring…
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2016-09-01
Uncategorized
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 and use to change my life and they dont affect…
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Making a small dent on chapter 8. And then I need to reherse all chapters. I realized trying to get 100% is boring, because 90% of activities are in stuff…
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Only had time now. Work was distracting and it didn’t help that everyone around me was sick. I could not really go all out since it would leave me vulnerable.…
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2016-08-27
studies
Work Update
Recent Lessons: 1) document as I go. Everything is overwhelming my capacity for attention. Its best to always document so that I can break it up into smaller pieces. 1.1)…
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2016-08-19
studies
Patience
Patience noun noun: patience 1. the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. “you can find bargains if you have the patience to sift…
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2016-08-18
studies
Distractions and focus
My main barrier of converting most of my distractions into usefully spent time is how much of start up time getting back into my little projects. My Chinese studies has…
Read more →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 a way that we need to send it to the…
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2016-08-08
Personal Life
Hiatus
Obviously I’m in hiatus from the lack of posts. So that you have a better idea of how long I’m down to set expectations there is a chance I’ll be…
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95%, 39/41 score. Npcr 6 I started listening to pimsluers Chinese audio exercises this morning. Will try to get the npcr audio to listen to as well. So I try…
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2016-08-06
Tools
Tech update
So I got my brothers old but formidable rig. Far better than my lenovo z50. I’m buying it from him at a discount. This is meant to allow the wife…
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2016-08-05
WORK
Being better prepared for meetings
Fri Aug 05 08:14:51 2016 #TIR #meetings I’m guessing this is the same as the toolbox meetings. that the barriers for having TRPGs run with more than 4-5 people are…
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2016-08-04
Uncategorized
Task clutter
#TIR better habits replace existing habits. We don’t just add habits, we look at how we do things and make improvements. Simply adding will make us lose time and focus…
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I wasn’t able to study that much this week. I could only find so much time because my physical therapy is taking up a lot of my time in a…
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2016-08-02
Uncategorized
One Year of Using an Espresso machine instead of Buying Coffee
My morning ritual with the espresso machine, the difference a year made in the learning curve. From spending 2.2usd for a starbucks dopio to only 1.1usd of coffee. Thats 15g…
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I need to do more drills. I had about one drill last week. My back therapy, sciatica pain management and strengthening exercises, have been eating 2 hours of my day.…
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Will move to chapter 7, hope to keep a pace of a chapter a week. I might slow down as I will stop focusing on one chapter and focus on…
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Npcr 7 reading 83% NPCR 4 writing 100% NPCR 5 writing 100% NPCR 6 writing 22% I will need to spend a few hours this week drilling npcr 6 writing.…
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This is npcr chapter 5. Averaging 20-30 mins a day. Hopefully I can keep this up. I wasn’t able to go the Chinese conversation club yesterday since the wife had…
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This was about 30 minutes worth and I kept forgetting to screen cap the previous scores. It will take maybe 10 of these to have the habit.
Read more →What Augmented Reality means to TRPG players: LARP Tools
With Pokemon GO all the rage its become clear that Augmented Reality Games will be the trend to look forward to. For Us TRPGers that means the possibility of more…
Read more →Mental Organization as part of the Game
what one carries with them is a bit of a fascination. I’m pretty cluttered and want to declutter but there are things that I carry with me which have a…
Read more →Writing exercise
Writing is harder in the beginning and if you don’t have a place to write and think. This is just chapter 5. I’ll try to do the exercises everyday when…
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2016-07-10
Tools
Tip for zenfone max
Turn off animation in developer options. To turn on developer options go to settings, about device, and press build version 5 times. You can also limit running applications. If you’re…
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