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2023-05-13

• 11:46 UTC (new) (history) 2023-05-13 Dieting with Org mode . . . . mbork – Some time ago I started to weigh myself every day. Some people argue that this is a bad idea and you should weigh yourself once per week to avoid worrying about random fluctuations. I disagree – the way not to worry about random fluctuations is to look at moving averages instead, Hacker's Diet-style. Note: I do not necessarily endorse Hacker’s Diet as a whole, but the moving average approach is certainly a good one. For the sake of simplicity, I am going to use simple (unweighted) moving averages over one week. I want to keep my weight data in an Org mode table (obviously).

2023-05-06

• 08:21 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2023-05-06 Juggling playlists in EMMS . . . . mbork – Thanks, I had no idea that exists! I'll check it out.
• 06:12 UTC (new) (history) 2023-05-06 Juggling playlists in EMMS . . . . mbork – It’s been several times now that I described my productivity system here. While I like it a lot, it still has room for improvement. Some time ago I mentioned it to a colleague and shared one frustration I have with it. When I fail to do even one thing on my carefully prepared plan for a day (which happens once in a while, of course), sometimes I lose motivation and skip more subsequent items. This leads to spending less time on things I want to do and more time on procrastination that day. It happens seldom enough not to be a real issue (and it doesn’t mean I fail to do anything – just less than usual or hoped for), but it is a bit frustrating. He suggested a pretty clever (and obvious in hindsight) way to deal with this. His idea is to have a separate music playlist „for work” and train my brain to associate that particular music with focused work. That way I would have another nudge to do particular kind of stuff.

2023-04-29

• 19:09 UTC (new) (history) 2023-04-29 My plans for 2023 - April update . . . . mbork – This is a continuation of my posts from January and February to let you know how things are going with stuff I decided to do this year.

2023-04-22

• 19:02 UTC (new) (history) 2023-04-22 Org mode clock table for the last week . . . . mbork – Some time ago I mentioned that I started doing “weekly reviews” of what I have done last week and what I am going in the next week. One part of my weekly reviews is checking how much time I spent doing various things last week. Of course, Org mode clock tables are an excellent tool for that. There is one caveat, though. What does “a week” mean? It turns out that it is not obvious at all. The main problem here is the :wstart parameter, telling what day is the first day of the week.

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