I did literally nothing today except reply to messages. Somehow let an absolute shitload of them pile up. I had grand plans, and then I took a nap, and had an insane headache, and other half of the day blew me by.
I came across 750 words. It’s perhaps the best existing implementation of an idea I’ve had a long time; that I want analytics/stats for literally aspect of my life. It gives more basic stats like how quickly you type various parts of your journal, breaks, etc. as well as a summary of how you’ve felt, correlated against the weather, and other factors.
A journal is a logical way to do this because it has so much context on your life, and it’s a natural method; I’m not trying to assign arbitrary numbers to my life, which are subjective based on my emotions of a given day. For a while, I thought it used LLM’s, but it just uses Regressive Imagery Dictionary, a linguistic emotional categorization technique from the 90s, which seems insane. The possibilities given private-ish journals are pretty insane; what if they were used for matchmaking, etc.? But more broadly, it’s a way to make way more educated life decisions. Logically, I know that weather impacts my mood; but just how much? How much more productive am I on a sunny, 20C day, than a disasterously hot 32c day over the course of years of data? Now, what if we added a Garmin Connect integration, and every time I mention binge eating Cadbury Mini Eggs before bed, how much does that affect my sleep? (uh oh, what inspired this… well I’m binge eating Cadbury Mini Eggs before bed now.)
smol rant: It’s incredibly stupid how much my dad manages to be a dick. Today, mom announced she wanted to take a 10min walk, but apparently my dad didn’t hear? When my dad was headed out the door, my mom asked him to wait 2min so that she could join him. And he just… left without her, nor the dog? So she spent an hour ranting to me about it, and there’s nothing I can do about it aside from lend an ear. Then, dad comes back, and she goes on a walk… again, alone? But nobody’s walked the dog yet, so yet again, I walk the dog (which is fine, I love the dog). My parents could literally have walked together, which required TWO MINUTES of waiting on my dad’s part, and would have saved me TWO HOURS. This isn’t some isolated case of miscommunication, my dad just randomly does these super -EV, irrational, illogical things to piss my mom off. Why? I literally cannot imagine ever doing anything remotely like that. I’m just thankful that I’m not, and never will be, like that (and that I’m going to spend more time away from home). I honestly didn’t realize how dysfunctional our household was until I spent time away. I wish I could transcribe Shanghainese insults to describe the situation but alas, TTS doesn’t work for dialects. Sucks to be illiterate !
I’m writing this super insanely late today; going to make myself a todo list I NEED to do for tomorrow:
- write an allium query for pnl at a timestamp for a given coin
- migrate pocket universe fee heartbeat tests to websockets
- use unique accounts for continue thresholds in pocket universe
- finish blowfish’s eth phishing protect cleaning
- DO MY TAXES/EMAIL MY ACCOUNTANT optional blog stuff:
- fix the sidebar of my blog so that i don’t have to individually link each post
- fix image pasting directories
- use a
I’m going to sleep without my phone. It’s something which intuitively I know is super +ev but just haven’t been able to do consistently…