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Review on Week 19, 2023

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The person is providing an update on their monthly goals. They have made progress on their thesis paper reading and daily meditation, but they have realized that they need more background knowledge for their thesis than they initially thought. They have given up on some other goals to focus on their thesis. They are struggling with personal accounting and reviewing Anki cards. They are also lacking sleep and have been unproductive due to constantly thinking about work. They plan to allocate their time at home to focus on Anki and daily review instead of searching for new content. They also want to have a short meditation before sleep instead of watching videos. They mention other points of interest, such as confusion between judging and mindfulness during meditation. They have postponed a review and are lacking workout. They have given up on a remote dev container method and plan to spend more time on it next week. They mention a game they are playing. They list their new desires, which include restoring the habit of workout and keeping up with Anki and personal accounting. They also list their goals for the week, including finishing a project proposal, improving sleep quality, focusing on Anki and daily review at home, and optionally reviewing MMK and working out.

Monthly Goal Update#

This is the second week of May, and there are several updates on my monthly plan.

The following is going smoothly as planned:

  1. Thesis paper reading
  2. Daily meditation.

Regarding the thesis: I've finished most of the papers I mentioned at the start of the month. However, the problem is that these papers are not sufficient as my thesis background. I need tons of background knowledge that involves not only the papers mentioned but also other papers. This is more than I expected, and as the process goes on, I've given up some floating goals set previously.

It turns out that building an intelligent system is more difficult than I expected and involves a great amount of work on each step.

But I'm keeping up the good habit of meditation. I think meditation has brought enough pleasure to me for the habit to sustain itself. However, I think I'm not fulfilling the goal of daily Anki and personal accounting.

I'm still very perfectionistic in terms of personal accounting. A small miss of the entry would demotivate me a lot. So after a week of losing track, I'm a bit afraid of putting another entry into my personal account table. It just feels less meaningful when I miss some entries.

Also, I'm not faithfully reviewing and adding Anki cards to my Anki collections. Even though I made it very easy to add new Anki cards from my Obsidian notes, the habit of reviewing and re-articulating is not really established. This is partially because I'm pretty eager to learn new things. Sometimes I prefer to do new things rather than reviewing the old ones, but this is rationally speaking inefficient.

The Problem of Sleep#

Last week feels less productive to me also because I'm constantly lacking sleep. I'm full of thoughts every day when I get back home, like contemplating the unfinished part of my tasks and the progress of my thesis. In hindsight, this is bad.

Packed with loads of unfinished work in mind doesn't help me be productive before sleep. Instead, it just makes me anxiously search for new content on Bilibili. I think it is a bad idea to bring work back home, especially when I'm often back home at 10-11 pm.

Combining two of the observations, I'll try to allocate the time back home exceptionally to Anki and daily review. I won't search for new information but rather organize the old one. I want to experimentally ban myself from looking at Bilibili videos at night (XD, know this is gonna fail).

Also, I would like to have a short meditation before sleep rather than videos from Bilibili. I think the former is helpful to my sleep quality, and the latter one is against it.

Other Interesting Points#

  • It is somehow easy for me to confuse judging and mindfulness when I was meditating.
  • I once again postpone MMK review, both because of the lack of time and not being confronted by the deadline I think, XDD. Yeah, the deadline gives the highest productivity.
  • Rope jump is failing as well. I'm really lacking workout right now. Maybe it could be better if I move it to the night?
  • After some investigation of having Neovim in every container, I finally give up the remote dev container method. I wrote a script called neovim-install. But I haven't tested it yet, and I cannot install Lunarvim on top of that as well, so maybe I'll spend another 2 hours next week on that.
  • 臭猪眯终于开始王国之泪了，看看我的游戏黑洞可不可以在我前面征服海拉鲁三明治（三层嘛…）。

New Desires#

  • Restore the habit of workout.
  • Keep up with the Anki and personal accounting thing.

Goals for 2023-W20#

  • Finish a detailed project proposal.
  • Daily meditation before sleep and less time on Bilibili before sleep => better sleep quality.
  • No task back home, only Anki and daily review are allowed.
  • (Optional) MMK review.
  • (Optional) Workout either at night or morning. This should be planned.
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