Time off Spring break 2024 - Chillin

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It’s spring break 2024 and I’ve got a week off. The last few weeks have been a bit crazy at work trying to get some big features launched and into public testing, so very excited for the time off. I usually try to avoid too much tech, but I’m looking forward to making some tech investments as it’s been a while.

I kind of miss doing lots of technical and blogging - so I’m looking forward to both of those.

I’ve got several headwinds going into this break:

  • Money Troubles have been great - stock market is through the roof, with Meta and MSFT at all-time highs!
  • Health has been great, diet, and exercise are dialed in.
  • Even though I had three intense weeks at work, my co-workers are amazing, and everything is good.
  • My “Dealer of Smiles and Wonder” Persona has re-emerged from Hibernation

All coins have two sides so Tailwinds as well:

  • Weather is cool and rainy
  • Tori is working
  • Most of our friends are out of town

My top priorities:

  • Spend time with family
  • Stay healthy (though this is easier than usual see below)

Moments

  • Another Trip to the Yellow Deli
  • Did the waterslide with Zach
  • Saw the Harrison Hot Springs
  • My swings are getting to heavier and feeling good doing it

Success Stories

  • Tesla crushes the driving, would be great if Tori would do some driving
  • Drone worked great at taking videos

Top Learnings

This is less new learnings, and more recounts to existing knowledge

New Learnings

  • Toe spreaders are fun
  • I should eat fruit before a workout (else go lightheaded)
  • Talking to an agent is way more fun then texting (See Tony)

Relationships

Friends

  • ☑ Walk with Bob

Tori

Zach

  • ☐ Take him somewhere to go for a bike ride on the car

Amelia

  • ☐ Take her somewhere to go for a bike ride on the car

Identity Health

Magic

  • ☐ Practice Daily
  • ☐ Find a place to practice card to ceiling
  • ☐ Find a place to work on Tamiriz

Biking

  • ☐ Repair my cargo bike computer
  • ☐ Look at bubble bike setup
  • ☑ Setup my Tesla bike carrier

Tech Guru

  • ☑ Containerize Bots
  • ☑ Get more out of Improv Bot
  • ☐ Create a blog post on Energy
  • ☐ Create a blog on Enabling Environment
  • ☐ Create a prompt to digest another blog and find most similar posts, then compare to find matching mental models

Shell + Enabling Environment + Python in VIM

  • ☑ Use Claude Opus for code it seems better
  • ☑ Make Git Commit use a better prompt
  • ☑ Upgrade to using multiple models!

  • ☑ Look at LLM based Eval

  • ☑ Figure out how to put IgConvo into pop up prompt
  • ☑ Finally got access to gemini 1.5 (1M Context Window) - but rate limiting is an issue, so haven’t really used it

Cognitive Health

  • ☐ Write up most valuable stuff you can do as a senior eng
  • ☐ Write up “Sustainable Work”
  • ☐ Do TikTok on the variants of “See Something/Say Something”
  • ☑ Met a neat guy who also blogs, does tech, and bi-polor. Scary story about his bipolar getting out of control.

Meditation

  • Worked on my informal box breathing
  • Several days
  • Doing it while charging in the Tesla

750 words/Gratefulness

  • ☐ Think about Sublime states

Physical Health

  • ☐ Video my swings and run them through my Swing-A-Lyzer

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  • ☑ 3x5 Good Pullups
  • ☐ 10x10 swings in 30 min

Statistics

Weight Start: 182 Weight End: Gym Days:

Diet

  • I’m doing terzepatide, so this is no longer a concern
  • Try to bound down to 179

Sleep

  • Wake up early and use a mood light

Energy

  • High

House and goods

  • ☐ Fix Hot tub
  • Stocks are way up so feeling very financially secure (though security should come from production capacity, not the current assets)
  • Basically own everything I want

Mental quicksand