Emile comments on Group Rationality Diary, January 16-31 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 16 January 2014 10:08:47PM 4 points [-]

I've been experimenting with a new schedule, where days of the week are assigned to topics (mostly for stuff to do in the evening after work and after the kid is in bed):

  • Monday is for drawing and art
  • Tuesday is for studying psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, motivation, learning...
  • Wednesday is for writing
  • Thursday is for programming
  • Friday is for relaxing
  • Saturday is for studying statistics and machine learning
  • Sunday is for strategy, reviewing the week, evaluating my current plans and coming up with new ones

So far I find it's an improvement, and is better at making sure I'm working on all of those (it also gives me a system in which I can dump "interesting things" without feeling the need to spend hours reading up on them right away ... when tuesday (psychology) comes around, I have a little list of the interesting-looking topics or links that I ran accross since last time, and choose which one to read, study, and enter in Anki).

Also, in my daily routine:

  • Get up as soon as the alarm rings (solid habit now, I used to loaf in bed for some time several months ago)
  • Exercise in the morning (I use some android apps by Rittr Labs to keep track of how much I should do, as recommended by hyporational; I cycle between squats, situps, pushups and superman)
  • Study my Anki decks (usually in public transit or when waiting in line)
  • Review HabitRPG (which I use to structure most of the rest)
  • Write in a gratitude journal (I may drop / tone it down, I'm not sure it's very useful)

I have started doing pomodoros, but not very regularly yet.