Focusing on Work

As part of my continued struggle to improve myself I have decided to sign up for a coaching program that the Kelley School of Business funds. I met with my coach for the first time last night, and many of the things we talked about were challenging. Hopefully this document helps me stay on track with my goals for the day and can serve as a starting place for the rest of the week.

During our talk I decided that I am focusing on being a more productive worker this week.

The most important thing: OOPSLA Submission

• Rewrite Section 2 of Our Paper
  • Reread section 2
  • Write even and odd with continuations
  • Write even and odd with continuations for grift
  • Quick sort example
  • Establish that proxy chains are the reason for catastrophic slowdowns
  • Where proxy chains occur
  • Fix example text highlighting
• Reorganize Evaluation of Our Paper
  • Mention that any change in performance in static external comparison isn’t due to gradual typing but the intrinsic overhead of the implementation technique
• Read Reviews
  • Make a list of Confusions and Improvements

Other Goals for Today

• Planned mailbox cleaning/planning session
• Use a todo list to keep track of what you accomplish and
• Catch up with grading
• Exercise by Swimming
• Come up with plan to reboot studying Japanese
• Come up with plan to reboot studying Lean

Keep these in mind

• Recognized times when you feel self doubt
• Try to idealize the relief or accomplishing things you don’t want to do.
• Try to ignore the process of things that you don’t want to do.

Goals for this Week

• Figure out who I want to be
  • As a worker
  • As a writer
• Figure out what I want to talk about next in coaching
• Spend 15 minutes twice each day planning and reflecting on the day.
• Start learning org mode for todo lists and note taking

Planned Breaks

• 2 x 25 m work session follow by 5 minute stroll
• 15 minute break

Distractions that I noticed (even the okay ones)

• Email popups in the corner of my screen
• Message in open messaging window when I open my computer
  • Led to working for 15 minutes at the request of my research partner.
• 15 minute break went over by 15 minutes looking at rss readers.
• Asked to post assignment for class

Future Goals

• Switch Benchmark Suite to Using Dynamizer to Generate Dynamic Benchmarks