{"id":13850,"date":"2023-07-04T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=13850"},"modified":"2024-01-01T08:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T08:43:26","slug":"2023-worklog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2023\/07\/04\/2023-worklog\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 worklog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>dec23 very productive day deleting and merging blogposts on \/blog\/, then reading about ulysses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>dec9:  earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1732886125315022939\">thread about ppl who ask for free books<\/a>. saw some tiktok lives about <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicwander.info\/Singapore\">chinese hindus in yishun<\/a>. 447am. <a href=\"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/blog\/comfortable\/\">blog\/comfortable<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1733122561784041612\">threadapalooza thread<\/a> started. published <a href=\"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/1000\/0851-return-to-freestyling\/\">0851 &#8211; return to freestyling<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>dec: met jason recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>nov2: 553pm. probably have a few minutes before baby wakes up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>nov1: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1719776647564673028\">safety rituals thread<\/a> \u2013 make into essay? culture is a set of practices, beliefs&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>oct: had been playing red dead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>oct26: baby was born on oct 20, was busy in the prep\/buildup to that. might&#8217;ve published some stuff but i don&#8217;t recall. started <a href=\"http:\/\/qualitystudies.substack.com\">qualitystudies.substack.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sep30: consult client (LI), zizek thread<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sep28: chat with dinesh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sep24: whiteboarded a bunch of stuff, thinking of starting a second substack. blog: moved magicbeans \u2192 ref.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sep20: major living room clean, big relief. published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/reorient\">archives\/reorient<\/a>, \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/think-bigger\/\">think-bigger<\/a>, \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2022\/10\/03\/abdication\/\">abdication<\/a>, \/mayor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sep14: major gym clean, big relief. published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2019\/09\/20\/psychographs\/\">archives\/psychographs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2022\/08\/30\/power\/\">archives\/power<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2020\/09\/07\/gender-stuff\/\">archives\/gender-stuff\/<\/a>.  updated DM heroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sep13: tidied drawers somewhat. setup my monitors again after returning from reservist. made some tiktoks recently. reviewing blog \u2013 232 published posts. wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1701841230584574019\">index thread QT-ing Lim<\/a>. reposted some meta about advice in annoyance at being misunderstood. in the mood for some tidying. maybe write a wordvomit? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sep2: published <a href=\"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/1000\/0846-essays-are-for-gestalt\/\">0846 gestalt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sep1: published&#8230; something, idk what lol <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug30: deleted \/yungsnuggie\/, \/quotes\/, \/boredom\/, \/games\/, \/motivation\/, \/precise\/, \/yoga\/, \/sexual-objectification\/, \/naggy-wife\/, \/skinwalkers\/, \/women-want-sex\/, \/womens-perspectives\/, \/fashion\/, \/perception\/ (artists), \/concepts\/, \/poems\/, \/blogging-all-over-again\/, \/why-i-stopped-blogging\/, \/realizations\/, \/misfit\/, \/adulthood\/, \/just-kidding\/, \/authenticity\/, \/scared-men\/, \/information-superhighway\/, \/benevolent-plagues\/, \/glossary\/, \/moral-failing-fallacy\/, \/perspective\/, \/ideas\/, \/chinese-girls\/, \/singapore\/, \/jailworld\/. generally I would say a very productive day of deleting&#8230; the point really has been to get me to be more intimately conscious of what my blog has been about, what my writing has been about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug29: tiktoks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug27: pasir ris beach, visited inlaws, reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.l-odet.com\/features\/hayley-williams\">hayley interview<\/a>, contemplated rewriting introspect. updated \/losers\/. published archives\/map-of-human-conversation\/. moved some stuff from gdrive to [[substack drafts]] and archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug26: mostly rested? brought some stuff down. watched some mrbeast vids, some uncharted vids, some prison break. ate guzman. answered sari&#8217;s questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug25: walk. working on In Other Words. updated some stuff&#8230; moved substack draft to archives. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2023\/07\/03\/help-me-understand\/\">help me understand<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug24: salon with the sharpes. yt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NwIVUnG_Mtc\">in other words<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug23: promising idea via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/made_in_cosmos\/status\/1693983494094061590\">made_in_cosmos<\/a> \u2013 coaching for how to be an online public figure. did some house cleanup. salon with the sharpes. how to win friends unrevised (<a href=\"https:\/\/socialskillswisdom.com\/\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug21: met AdiK, stubbed my toe, watched hitman, fell in the shower, emergency <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug20: slept a little too late the night before. lunch, shower, its 538pm. probably gonna go on a walk. maybe do some roam cleanup. did some reading about zines. pub <a href=\"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/1000\/0843-take-care\/\">wordvomit 0843<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug19: some minor cleanup. had sudden burst of writing that happened in my roam right before heading to the expo with S. finished uncharted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug18: met lola, played uncharted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug17: met annelaure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug15: watched bowie doc, published <a href=\"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/archives\/wretchedness\">wretchedness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/blog\/process\">process<\/a>, done some notes cleanup. spacing out a little. updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/feral-free-agents\/\">\/feral-free-agents\/<\/a>. \/archives\/voltaic\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>earlier aug: watched guardians3, get back documentary,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>aug9: woke up 7am-ish? wrote a thread about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1689062939662442496\">haters\/nitpickers, limited kinship<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>jul19: great consult session with C and J of PD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>jul18: great call with the FFAs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>jul16: wrote so many word vomits!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>jul15 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1680116855229542400\">thread abt fran cab<\/a>, wordvomit 0833 statusupdate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2023\/02\/17\/palm-leaf-manuscripts\/\">updated tweet grammar draft<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>jul 14, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1680004516845072384\">cigarette gtd thread<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1679948421527146497\">forgetting better ways of being thread<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>jul9, been pretty chill. woke up when wife mentioned some deranged tweets. wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1677948947133009926\">thread about bets<\/a>, updated \/math\/. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/my-creative-process\/\">published my creative process<\/a>. tidied up roam [[substack drafts]] a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>jul3, wow i actually kinda took the weekend off, lol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fri30 \u2013 today I feel like going through my main blog. particularly thinking about how dated visakanv.com\/make-friends\/ feels, though that\u2019s not technically part of my blog\u2026 but it\u2019s the thing that\u2019s linked from my site<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>thu29, cleaned bedroom, very productive conversation with dinesh (arrived at the idea of the \u2018corrupt secretary\u2019 problem)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wed28. woke from uneasy dream. feeling impulse to write something. 1130am. didn\u2019t get enough sleep but why should that stop me? ok that was bad lol was tired all day. did a great call with Fosters folk and then wrote a good thread about thingification<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tue27, rest day. errands. video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>mon26jun2023, 627pm. first i\u2019ma clean my keyboard. done. 628. I have several things on my mind. a conversation with a mutual yesterday that could be an essay. Another essay about how you can spin up digital spaces for free and the implications of that. but the thing I think I most want to do is to continue where I left off yesterday. so let\u2019s do that. do I want to start a pomodoro? not really, i\u2019ll just play some music. OK Computer let\u2019s go. It\u2019s tempting to continue with yesterdays roam page, but I\u2019m starting a new bullet so it feels fresh. 2 songs in, down to 52 notes. album over, down to 47 notes. break for dinner. 741pm. sat around\u2026 submitted a form for a thing\u2026 now it\u2019s 1010pm. 1034pm, back to work. 1209pm, we\u2019re down to 31 notes. 144am, down to 24 notes, ok i think im gonna go play some horizon fw<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s Sunday 25-jun-2023, 835pm. I had dinner, showered, and I\u2019m ready to \u2018start my day\u2019. Realistically I have maybe 4 hours of time, maybe less. What do I want to do with this time? First I\u2019ll take a minute to clean up my computer desktop. Done. That took 4 minutes. Maybe I\u2019ll clear my physical desktop next. Done, that took a few seconds (I just stuffed everything into drawers, which would take longer to clean.) Okay. What\u2019s next? I\u2019d like to write and publish an essay today. But I don\u2019t have a super strong compulsion to right now. What do I feel like doing right now? I see that I have 86 drafts in a folder in my iOS notes app. I\u2019d like to\u2026 go through those drafts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alright, so I\u2019m going to start a new page on my Roam titled [[voltaic]], and start a main bullet titled iOS drafts 25jun2023, and I\u2019ll start populating it with what\u2019s in the drafts folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll start from the bottom. Deleted one. 847pm. Shall I start a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IUXNiDJJ_9s\">pomodoro<\/a>? Why not. [\u2026] 25 mins later I have ~15 bullet points and we\u2019re down to 79 drafts in the folder. [\u2026] I tried to do another one, got distracted halfway, started over, got distracted again. Now it\u2019s 10:13pm and we\u2019re down to 73 drafts. I feel pretty good though. [\u2026] now it\u2019s 1218pm and we\u2019re at 66. Hey that wasn\u2019t so bad [\u2026] now it\u2019s 337am and we\u2019re down to 57. now it\u2019s 452am and i\u2019m still at 57. so i probably should\u2019ve stopped at 337am, lol. ok i\u2019m done for the day, at least i\u2019ll be in bed before sunrise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dec23 very productive day deleting and merging blogposts on \/blog\/, then reading about ulysses dec9: earlier, thread about ppl who ask for free books. saw some tiktok lives about chinese hindus in yishun. 447am. blog\/comfortable. threadapalooza thread started. published 0851 &#8211; return to freestyling. dec: met jason recently. nov2: 553pm.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3Bo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13850"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14009,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850\/revisions\/14009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}