Time off August 2024

I’m incredibly fortunate to be able to take 6 weeks off this summer! From when performance reviews finish to when the kids go back to school, it’ll be summer vacation.

It’s a special year since Zach will be going into high school, and Amelia into Grade 5!

To get the most out of my time off, I’m going to follow my best practice of pre-writing what I want to get done, and adjust it as I go. This is a combination of time off, and all the stuff for happiness, which I guess gets tangled up with half of my evergreen notes.

Topic

Divide and Conquer - By Person

Family time is great, but so is time together so I think I’ll split the time up,

• A week with each kid, a week for myself, and a week for the family.
• All in one place, or travel the world.

Bulk Discount - Staying at the beach house

Ma

From 12 months to 6 weeks

Four years ago, I dreamed of taking a year off of work. A few things have changed, Meta doesn’t do unpaid leaves, and the software industry has gone through some employment turbulance (e.g. layoffs), so I’ve replanned and am take a 6 weeks of vaction

By Week

Week	Dates	People	Activities	Notes
1	July 21	Zach	TBD
2	July 28	Family	TBD
3	August 4	Alone	TBD	A at Farm; Z rowing
4	August 11	Alone	TBD	A at Film Camp; Z Rowing
5	August 18	Amelia	TBD	Z Rowing
6	August 25	Family	TBD
DONE	September 4	Back to Work	Back to Work/School Starts

Stuff happening:

• Tesla car camping
• Mid week camping
• Hang with Baltasar and Family

My top priorities

Back to generating artificats

• Bang out a daily blog post
• Write 4 family journal entries (!!)
• Finish my talk on AI

Health and Habits

• Diet - I should be pretty close to steady state goal (165 ish). I guess don’t go up more then 5 lbs

  • Start of: May 175; June 170; July 165; August 160;
  • Go to grocery store and load up on healhty food
  • Bring my travel scale

• Sleep - Up every day at 5.

  • When drifting cut caffiene
  • Bring earplugs and sleep mask
  • Nap while charing the Tesla

• Exercise - This will probably the hardest.

  • When out of town, bring a portable kit
  • Figure out an outdoor setup

Moments

First night: - Arrived: Went to beach and did 30 minutes of meditation on the sunset. It was amazing - Maybe an hour today

Things to do:

• Go to Seaside
• Go to Cranberry museum

Success Stories

• Bought lots of peas and healthy things at grocery store
• Got dinner before unpacking

Top Learnings

• Relationships (3/5)
  • Friends
  • Tori
  • Zach
  • Amelia
• Identity Health (x/5)
  • Biking
  • Ballooning
  • Joy Activities
  • Magic
• Tech Guru (X/5)
• Cognitive Health (X/5)
  • Blog posts
• Emotional Health (4/5)
  • Meditation
  • 750 words/Gratefulness
• Motivation (X/5)
• Physical Habits (4/5)
  • Statistics
  • Diet
  • Sleep
• House and goods
• Inner Peace (X/5)
  • General Inner Peace
  • Work
  • Family

Relationships (3/5)

• Did much of the cooking and groceries myself. Really enjoyed it!
• Zach and kids enjoyed it too!

Friends

• Nada, just me and the family

Tori

• Private

Zach

• Daily walk

Amelia

• Daily Activity ( Brain storm this with her)

Identity Health (x/5)

Biking

• ☐ Rent a bike for a day

Ballooning

• ☐ Give out at least 2 balloons a day
• ☐ Practice gun and teddy bear daily

Joy Activities

• Nothing

Magic

• ☐ Daily practice -
• ☐ Every day - perform for someone

Tech Guru (X/5)

• Outline my talk for GPT, likley based on on Langchain tools

Cognitive Health (X/5)

Blog posts

• One per day!

Emotional Health (4/5)

Meditation

• ☐ Daily meditation!

750 words/Gratefulness

• ☐ Daily Gratefulness journal/750 words!

Motivation (X/5)

-

Physical Habits (4/5)

Statistics

Weight Start: 165 Weight End: Gym Days: -

Diet

• tbd

Sleep

• tbd

House and goods

• NONE!

Inner Peace (X/5)

General Inner Peace

• Should be pretty high
• Need to remember mood is a heuristic, and my subjective well being will be super strong

Work

• I should be spending 0 time on this

Family

• Lets focus on compassion and the sublime states