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Je vais essayer d'écrire plus de toots en français pour mieux apprendre
Amis français, si vous tombez sur cela, n'hésitez pas à me corriger. (orthographe, langue, nuance, tout…)
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Je vais essayer d'écrire plus de toots en français pour mieux apprendre
Amis français, si vous tombez sur cela, n'hésitez pas à me corriger. (orthographe, langue, nuance, tout…)
Cet toot vous est présenté par Google Translate (pour l'instant)
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`DISABLE_IPX`
from the Netlify documentation. my first thought was why would any one even run the protocol in the first place? reading further …> when set to `true` for a Next.js site, the build will not generate a function for the `next/image` loader bundled into Next.js Runtime.
Sigh! I *am* old!
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listen to it as entertainment, rather than history or lessons from history.
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going to just take a couple of weeks off and do nothing.
or rather do this and do that. just wander aimlessly -
Binge listening to the Acquired Podcast, by Benjamin Gilbert and David Rosenthal. The tone is young, slightly broey and plenty privileged. I find my self disagreeing with a lot of what they say and opine.
But the stories of the companies that they tell? That part is lovely. and really well executed. Plenty of work and effort.
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#NoteToSelf make sure the machine is backed up before you do any sort of driver update on the desktop
At least you will have the latest versions of your stuff when the machine goes wah
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#TimeBlocking Log Day 8
Spoke too soon yesterday 😂
Laid up in bed today with a fever.Lesson? Learn to listen to your body better
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#TimeBlocking Log Day 7
Well, it’s not really day 7, it’s been quite a few days. (a week i think)
What I worked on last week was what the logs and the reviews were showing me, telling me. That I had too much on my plate.
cut out a lot of stuff from life. delegated even more. and postponed a few important things. And completed a few of them. There was just no way I was doing them all anyway
What I have learnt, is just showing up daily and doing even haphazard work, leads to getting more done, rather than just wringing my hands over all the things I couldn’t do.
Have quite enjoyed the past couple of days. To boot, my body seems to like this way of working and I have lost weight. Something which I have been struggling to do, since January
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#TimeBlocking Log Day 6
Planning the day with coffee and the Cal Newport’s fancy Time Block Planner
(will be going back to plain ole notebooks when this one gets filled)
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I’ve always told myself, I’m not nostalgic. I don’t have any particular attachment for yesterday.
Until I caught myself yesterday, on a beautiful rainy evening, telling myself, this is just how it used to be. And realised that every good feeling now, links back to good memories of yore
So #NoteToSelf :
- it’s ok. nostalgia is good mostly
- in the humdrum of the daily grind, look for moments of joy
- sometimes take the time out to actively go experience new, novel things
- be present. appreciate today for what it gives you.
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ok. this suddenly struck me as I was reviewing my day, last eve, as I do all these #TimeBlocking posts.
The reason I don’t much done, even after all these lovely plans, is that I spent most of my day, holding my breath, for something that may or may not come and knock me and my day over.
I don’t know if it’ll come or not. but my body is in near constant flight or fight mode. because to my mind and body, being caught blind sided is far worse.
I need to figure out a way to be calm and collected and to be ok if things fall by the wayside. both; what is coming at me, or my grand plans for the day.i need to trust my gut, that what I am doing *is* the right thing to do in that moment. If that means that my planned life trajectory will slow down, then I need to clear time and review, and prioritise and have heart to hearts with folks, and / or be ok with life being the way it is.
Just putting these down on paper, seems to have unblocked something in me. Some progress then :)
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#TimeBlocking Log Day 5
Decided to take the day off and do only one thing
Got knocked over by life.
Never mind. Time to get up, dust myself and get going again
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spent the whole day in a slow flow state.
If I take this long to be productive at something then God help me.On the other hand, I should take it as a positive that stuff is slowly clicking for me.
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the kind of mood swings, I’ve been having, maybe I should just call myself Hyperion
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Kind folk of the #Fediverse. I need #advice on disappearing posts
with all the babbling i’ve doing these days, i’m realising two things
1. sometimes i want to be a bit more vulnerable and open
2. i realise it could come back to bite me in the ass (or worse)So please help me, if you could speak to
1. Why do you make posts disappear? How do you feel about it after?
2. How did you decide on your timeframe of choiceWould be grateful for anything you people can give me to chew on.
Please Boost!
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Kind folk of the #Fediverse. I need #advice on disappearing posts
with all the babbling i’ve doing these days, i’m realising two things
1. sometimes i want to be a bit more vulnerable and open
2. i realise it could come back to bite me in the ass (or worse)So please help me, if you could speak to
1. Why do you make posts disappear? How do you feel about it after?
2. How did you decide on your timeframe of choiceWould be grateful for anything you people can give me to chew on.
Please Boost!
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#TimeBlocking Log Day 4
Taking it easy today.
made a plan. for doing nothing. or very little. what matters today is the plan and the intention and the mindfulness of the execution / delegation behind it. Not the actual content.
I know it’s weird but reading the @thephd’s post and it’s somehow heartening to see that I’m not the only one struggling like this
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did manage to do *some* stuff.
i’ll count that as a win -
scrapping everything.
will do some reading and some noodling with Python -
#TimeBlocking Day 3 Log
created a plan in the morning.
have just spent all day looking at it. and then browsing the same set of five websites in a circlemental energy seems to be a real thing after all.
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If you extend your block because it gets interesting and then get tired and bored, you have only yourself to blame! have the discipline to stop when the going’s good.
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block one done! 🎉
took a break. on to the next block -
Not as much head scratching involved, while making the plan, compared to yesterday.
I know I’m supposed to keep weekends loose, but I’m kinda making a pseudo plan today filled with loosey goosey stuff to do.
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Ok done for the day. Shutdown complete ✅
Cognition takes a precipitous dive post 6p.
best served for light reading / iterating / noodlingEnergy highest in the morn. Tackle hard tasks then.
Doing this makes me a lot more self aware and intentional.
the plan got borked thrice in the day.
At least this time I got to be intentional about what I would do / ditch / delegate / postponeAnd everything got captured, so my mind’s empty
It’s not natural doing this. And a bit hard.
So I’ll probably keep doing these, until the process becomes second nature.
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peak distraction in the last hour.
took me 30m to read two pages of a book.
evenings are also very interruptible -
third focused task.
did only a few minutes of work in the
self realisation: everytime i tackle something hard, i want everything around to be perfect. i need to know all about it. how long it will take. how it is structured and blah blah blah.
methinks for me, the solution going forward is to just dive in. and then recalibrate once i’m actually doing the work.
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done with lunch.
day rescheduled. one task had to be dropped
moving on with the dayfeeling much better than normal.
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first focussed task. ran over by a lot.
rescheduling day -
irrational concern when talking / collaborating with folks
do it faster!
i only have an hour 😂 -
FIN!
That about sums up the advice given in the planner proper
Also all the “I”’s above are Cal. I have just been copy pasting, in case that wasn’t clear.The planner has a site here: https://www.timeblockplanner.com/
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CONCLUDING a bit more:
1. Build smart weekly plans.
2. Use this plan to develop effective daily time-block schedules.
3. Execute those daily schedules with intensity.
4. When you're done for the day, shut down completely.
5. When you get to the weekend, take a break from rigorous scheduling.
6. Then start the cycle all over again. This is the rhythm of a professional life that's both extremely productive and sustainable. And it's exactly what this planner is designed to help you achieve.25/
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CONCLUSION
1. It’s this combination of high-level weekly plans with detailed daily time block schedules that unlocks the full potential of this productivity system. 2. The weekly/daily approach is what allows you to begin moving obligations around like pieces on a chessboard, and to construct configurations of your schedule that enable you to accomplish head turning amounts of work, all while staying on top of the various small requests and tasks pulling at your time and attention. While your peers react frantically to inputs and deadlines as they arise, often putting in late nights to try to compensate for their haphazard schedules, you'll approach each day with a justified confidence.
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PLAN YOUR WEEK! Contd:
8. Weekly plans are also important because they allow you to tackle objectives that require more than a day to complete. If you decide at the beginning of the week, for example, to write an article that’ll require around ten to fifteen hours of research and writing, your weekly plan can help you figure out how to spread this work out across the upcoming days. It’s much less likely you'd end up getting all of this required work done if you instead just planned each day as it arrived.
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PLAN YOUR WEEK! Contd:
5. The planning may take time up front, but it will return much greater productivity for the entire week that follows.
6. It allows you to identify important patterns that can help you get much more accomplished. If you see, for e.g., that Wednesday through Friday are very busy due to a visiting client, then you can compensate by squeezing in more uninterrupted deep work on Monday or Tuesday. Or if you know you'll be off-site all day Friday, then you can adjust your Thursday schedule to make sure loose ends are tied up before the trip.
7. Sometimes your weekly planning habit can motivate you to change appointments already on your calendar. After trying and failing to fit in enough hours to finish an important project, for e.g., you might realize that you need to cancel or reschedule a few non-urgent appointments perhaps coffee with a colleague or a meeting for a speculative project to make room for the more urgent work.22/
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PLAN YOUR WEEK!
1. You should work out your weekly plan either first thing Monday morning or over the weekend before the week begins.
2. When crafting the plan, look over your calendar and whatever system you use to track your obligations, projects, and goals.
Some people like to empty their email inbox as part of this planning process so that they feel as though they restarting the week fresh. For other people, this might be infeasible.
3. Regardless, creating these plans takes time. For example, I usually spend between thirty and sixty minutes to get up to speed on what's happening in the upcoming week and decide how to tackle it.
4. You might feel at first that this time is wasted like you're throwing away an hour you could dedicate to actually completing concrete tasks. I urge you to resist this reaction.21/
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Right side of a weekend page:
1. It includes space for you to plan the upcoming week. This area is purposefully left simple. When it comes to weekly planning, I've found it's crucial to embrace flexibility. The style or format of your plan should match the challenges of the specific week ahead.
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Left side of a weekend page:
1. I typically advise people not to time block their weekends: these two days should provide some respite from the rigors of allocating work to every minute of your day.
2. the planner provides only a single page for organizing your entire weekend. The page is divided into two columns, one for Saturday and one for Sunday. The empty boxes included for each day can be used for jotting down a loose schedule, including reminders of any important appointments (“Dinner at the restaurant at 7:00”) or major things you hope to get done (“Read that novel”).
3. The lined space below these boxes that's labeled “Weekend Capture” should be used for capturing ideas or tasks that come up on Saturday or Sunday. I suggest you always process these notes when you create your time-block plan on Monday morning. This will ensure that they're never forgotten.19/
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#TimeBlocking
WEEKEND PAGESThis is another two page spread that you’d have at the end of a week.
The page on the left is dedicated to organizing Saturday and Sunday, while the page on the right is for capturing your weekly plan, a high-level road map for the week ahead.
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#TimeBlocking
THE SHUTDOWN RITUAL Contd:Once you've finished going through your collection columns, you should then briefly review any other potential sources of unresolved work obligations.
For most people, this means taking one last look at your email inbox, to ensure you didn't miss something urgent, as well as reviewing your calendar and obligation-tracking system.
When done with these checks, look over your weekly plan (below), updating it as needed. The goal here is to convince yourself that there's nothing being forgotten or missed or being kept track of only in your brain, and that you have a reasonable plan for the days ahead. All of these reassurances are the precondition for enabling your brain to fully shift its attention from work to life outside work.
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#TimeBlocking
THE SHUTDOWN RITUALOne of the most important pieces of my system's daily scheduling discipline is executing a shutdown ritual that helps your mind shift more completely from work mode to non-work mode. The details of this ritual are straightforward. At the end of each day's time-block schedule, your final step, if at all possible, is to shut down work. To do so, first make sure your personal metrics have been re-corded. Next, go through the tasks and ideas in your collection columns, deciding for each what you want to do with it. In some cases, you may need to add new tasks into your task system, while in others, you may need to update your calendar or even shoot off a quick message.
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#TimeBlocking
ADVANCED TIME-BLOCKING TIPS Contd:Tip #4: Use “conditional blocks” to add flexibility to your schedule.
If you're unsure how long a given activity might take, break it into two blocks.
The first block is dedicated to working on the activity.
The activity for the second block is conditioned on what happens during the first block: If you need more time for the original activity, then the second block is used to finish it. On the other hand, if you've finished the original activity, the second block can be used to tackle a backup task. In this way, you can avoid unnecessary schedule fixes when confronting work of ambiguous duration.
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#TimeBlocking
ADVANCED TIME-BLOCKING TIPS Contd:Tip #3: Capture email and instant messenger communication in
their own blocks.
Many knowledge workers don't consider checking email or instant messenger channels a standalone activity. They instead think of it as something that's always done in parallel with primary work.I highly discourage this mindset: all of these quick checks of communication channels significantly reduce your cognitive capacity due to neural network switching costs. Batch your email or instant messenger time into their own blocks. When you get to one of these communication blocks, do nothing but communicate, and when you're not in one of these blocks, don't communicate at all. If your work requires you to check these tools often, then schedule lots of blocks to do so, but refuse to let this behavior be something that occurs informally in the background.
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ADVANCED TIME-BLOCKING TIPS
Tip #1: Embrace schedule fixes.
If circumstances upend your schedule, this isn’t a failure, it's an expected part of applying this strategy. When you next get a chance, simply fix the schedule for the time that remains in the day so that you remain intentional about where you direct your focus.Tip #2: At first, schedule more time than you think you need.
Novice time blockers chronically underestimate how long common work activities actually take. If you're new to time blocking, you can save yourself unnecessary schedule fixes by inflating the time-block sizes you think are reasonable by 20 to 30 percent. After you've been time blocking for several months, you'll begin to develop a more realistic understanding of these durations and can begin building more-accurate blocks without needing this extra padding.13/
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Energy Matters!
Finally, keep in mind factors such as time of day-perhaps earlier in the day is better for hard thinking and later in the day is better for small tasks-and how you're feeling.
If you’re exhausted, you might want a schedule designed to help you catch up on administrative obligations, whereas if you’re feeling energized, you might want to put aside large blocks of uninterrupted time for intense projects.
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When building your time-block schedule, you should first reference whatever calendar or planner or organisation system you use to make sure that you’re adding time blocks for any meetings or appointments you already have scheduled.
The real decision then becomes what to do with the free time that remains.
To help make these choices, next consult whatever external system you use to track and organize all of the tasks, projects, long-term goals, or other obligations for which you're currently responsible. You want your schedule to help you make progress on the right activities.
(In my case it’s my calendar and #OrgMode)
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all of the above were Cal Newport ideas that I jotted down from his video on Time Blocking here: https://youtu.be/eff9h1WYxSo
More ideas below from the instructions in the physical planner itself
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Left Side Contd:
10. The metrics box also has a shutdown complete box. **Before you do that though,**
11. At the end of the day, go through what you’ve done.
12. Process your time block plan, see what needs moving
13. Check your tasks and ideas, move them to you digital systems (#OrgMode) if need be
14. Then go mash that box, knowing that your mind is empty and you can go relax and do home / family / leisure stuff -
Left Side Contd:
7. the metrics box is for a Jerry Seinfeld-esque chain (or daily numbers or whatever) important metrics of your life. Did you do your exercise? Did you hit your diet plan? Did you do your Urdu lesson? Did you walk? Did you meditate or pray? Track them all!
8. Use shortforms and stick figures or whatever you like to track what you do
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Left Side Contd:
4. if you remember a jbo that needs doing, just capture it in tasks
5. if there’s an idea that strikes you, a thought that inspires you, capture those in ideas
6. eliminates distraction and lets you focus on you planned work on the right page. no fancy tech required to do this too! -
Now going to the left side of the two page spread
1. Page divided into 3 boxes.
2. A smallish box running across the top of the page. for metrics
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(Back to the right spread)
7. Life happens. You run over. Something gets cut short. The plan goes to pot. What now?
8. You redraw the item that went long. on the right. and replan your day below it. you might have to remove some things or shorten the time for others. but at least you are intentional. and you realise, c’est la vie.
9. Repeat everytime the schedule gets mangled and out of whack
10. **The idea of timeblocking is not to hit your schedule no matter what. The big idea is to redraw you schedule and intentionally use your time**
11. **You don’t get a price for accuracy. You get a prize for intention**
12. You always want there to be a plan for the time that remains -
Aside, contd:
- you can see how much time you have available. if someone wants to jump on a call, you can see what needs to be done. do you need to shuffle things around in your day? can you fit them in some block? you want to tell them some other day/time?
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Aside: There’s a few advantages to scheduling the day, this way, on paper
- You *intentionally* decide a blocks of time to work daily . (i will work from 7-12 and then from 4-8) and then you *intentionally* decide what you will do with that time
- You get more done. You do better quality work.
- you can fill in gaps of time (like the tasks above)
- you decide what you will do according to the energy you think yiou have at various times of the day
- when you run yoeur day off a plan like this, you know what you’re expected to be doing at any moment. you’ll be less likely to be distracted because you know you’ll fall behind
- you get a real sense of how long work *actually* takes. you might decide the report takes only an hour, but when you are constantly over shooting by 30m every day, you know a block takes 90m on average, and you’ll plan accordingly. you have to face that reality -
4. You might realise as you plan, there there are lots of tiny miscellaneous tasks you might want to do. for example you can’t write 5 tasks in tiny 30m box
5. In that case, just give the box a descriptive header (Errands or Social Catchup or Communications or Tasks), and also give it a number.
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First up: Daily Pages
Have a two page spread.
Right hand side
1. Date on the top
2. Left margin, mark hours you will work, down the page at regular intervals
3. Start making boxes with the work you have to do. e.g. 9-10 report / 10-11 email and so on and so forth -
hmmm, putting crazy thoughts out in the world just like the young ones do.
this could by my version of a mid life crisis