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Tools

  • [ ] Trapezoid Hoe
  • [ ] Trowels (2)
  • [ ] Legume innoculant

Seed Starting

  • [ ] 20 Soil blocker
  • [ ] 4 Soil blocker
  • [ ] dibble accessories
  • [ ] tray

Kombucha

Waypost

Is what I am doing contributing to my main goals of Family, Personal Improvement, and Financial Stability (see more)?

Meta

Organization is paramount to this site being of any use to anyone. As such, I need to be ruthless in how I keep this site organized, as it is already geting out of hand.

  • Root pages should be kept to the bare minimum.
  • URL overrides should be used for ease of navigation and url shortening, not file level organization
  • Page linking should be used wherever and whenever possible
  • Meta talk should be in a meta section
  • Meta talk and dailies of importance should be reprinted in appropriate pages

New Philosophy

I have come upon a new philosophy for me, it is nothing new and borrows from countless better thought-out ideas, but it is finally starting to click for me. Life can be thought of as a number of categories. Although I still have not decided how evenly or not these categories should be dealt, I do know for sure that anything outside of the categories does not align with what I want in life.

  • Body: We only get one, and modern medicine is still quite poor at fixing any serious damage nor even the relatively simple aging process. Aerobic exercise, resistance training, posture, healthy movement, and healthy eating will extend what we do have.
  • Mind: Mental health, continued learning, and spirituality. Meditating, exploring one’s mind, therapy, reading, learning languages, learning about other cultures, generally trying to soak up all life has to offer both internally and externally.
  • Family: Strong interpersonal relationships are known to be needed for a healthy life, they give greater life satisfaction, etc. Although many positive interactions are good, a few very strong relationships are better than many shallow relationships.
  • Environment: Life requires maintenance tasks, entropy is constant. Cooking, cleaning, organizing, maintaining. We are animals defined by our almost constant tool use. THese tools require upkeep, organization, etc. Minimalism is ideal, but will still result in tasks within this category.
  • Mission (Self-actualization): We seem to have an innate disposition to wanting to be a part of something more than ourselves. This could be a cause, charity, art, craft, sport, what have you. This will most likely change through life, and can be thought of as a placeholder for one’s current interest. With the unfortunately realities of life, This area tends to be quite small or even non-existant for the vast majority of the population. Although I think a few people have managed to turn their mission into their jobs, it is rare and difficult to do, especially without substantial compromise.
  • Job: I view this as a part of environment, but I think the current structure of society dictates it being separate. I believe we should attempt to minimize this, and I do believe that focusing on the other categories will minimize the need for a traditional job, and hopefully open the path to a job that at least helps you to meet one or more of the categories without taking from your ability to fulfill all of them too much.

Anything outside of the previous categories is probably uncessary and only taking time and energy from more important pursuits

Different Types of Information

  • Task: A task describes and tracks a unit of progress towards a project. A task is the work done by a single entity. A task will most likely produce artefacts, whether this is code, documentation, widget, or change in state (a car being clean, etc.). Tasks should be well-planned and locked in by the time they are worked on, but if a task is aborted whilst it is being worked on, it should still live on as a record of the aborted work.
  • Project: A project is a collection of progress, past, present, and future. Projects will have a goal, and can usually be broken into goal, lifecycle, or on-going types.
    1. Goal - These projects have a focused goal that needs to be achieved with only trivial amounts of work or less left after the goal is completed. Examples: Building a chair: this would be more of a goal than a lifecycle as once the chair is built, it is largely a chair without any extra work needed for it to continue to fullfill its purpose. It may need to be cleaned occasionally that is more in the scope of a general household entropy/cleaning project.
    2. Lifecycle: Lifecycle projects tend to have a main goal or purpose with large amounts of work both and front and back of the actual achievement of that goal. These also have an expected end.
    3. On-Going: On-going projects main feature are that they do not have an expected end. Household cleaning is an example, as cleaning will always need to be done. A company, in whole, is also on-going, as it is expected to live on, the tasks and subprojects will change, but it will be without end in sight.

Accomplishments, Skills, etc.

  • Juggling:
    • 3 ball cascade
    • tennis

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