Category: Writing
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Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/02
Writing Blogged and published an entry for my daily review Blogged and published an entry that shows the steps for building librty’s documentation from source code (since the manual no longer exists on the official website) Mental and Physical Health Met with my therapist, who I see every week (except last week since I had…
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Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/01
Yesterday Writing Blogged and published an entry for my daily review Blogged and published an entry that snapshots my understanding before starting on project 1 of advanced operating systems: writing a scheduler and writing a memory coordinator Music E-mailed the singing instructor that I’ve been seeing for the last couple years, informing her that lately…
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Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/08/31
Yesterday Most interesting part of yesterday was a 1 on 1 video Chime chat that my co-worker scheduled with me. What started off with me stepping through our code base (for a set of features I added to the dataplane) morphed into a lengthy discussion around mental health and burning out and the idea of…
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Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/08/30
Yesterday Writing Wrote and published an article on Time Management Tip #1: Pomodoro Technique. How I use the technique and how I’ve adjusted it to fit my needs. Music Had my bi-weekly virtual guitar lesson with Jared. This was the first lesson back, after he took a 1.5 month sabbatical, a vacation he deserves and…
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Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/08/27
What’s your chief aim for today Learning that while I’m on call for my team, I very rarely hit my targets for the day (see section on “How did yesterday go”). Not only that, but I’m drained by the end of the day, little to no CPU cycles left for studying (although this window of…
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Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/08/26
What’s your chief aim for today Writing Write and publish one piece on this blog Graduate School Complete typing up answers for assignment #1 Edit answers for pre-lab assignment Watch and take notes on second module in advanced operating systems (Lesson 2) Organization Review Inbox items sitting in OmniFocus Quickly glance over project Work Continue…
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Daily Review – 2020/08/26
What’s your chief aim for today Write and publish one piece on this blog Review Inbox and Important projects sitting in OmniFocus (this was a miss yesterday) Put in 1 hour study session before and after work for advanced operating systems (seems unlikely since I woke up at 05:00 instead of 04:30 and made the…
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Daily Review – 2020/08/25
What’s your chief aim for today Recover from waking up from 03:00 AM from being woken up from operational issue Write and publish one piece on this blog Review Inbox and Important projects sitting in OmniFocus Put in 1 hour study session before and after work for advanced operating systems Chip away at writing one-pager…
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Logical Writing & Steven Pinker’s Coherence Relations
Have you ever read a passage that flows (i.e. has cohesion) but it just … doesn’t make any sense, no matter how many times you read it? You can lexically parse the passage (i.e. makes grammatically sense) but you cannot grasp the meaning? If so, the passage probably lacks coherence. What is coherence? According to…