Good job, and I wish you all the luck in your endeavors! I think the format of the journal could benefit from adding something like a quantitative assessment of how much you have done compared to what you planned to do. It would (hopefully) help you calibrate, state clear and achievable goals, ease readability, and, in addition, help others calibrate which tasks are harder or easier.
I agree about the value of quantitative assessments, but assigning numbers based on vibes feels hokey to me, so I’ll only do it if I can find quantifiable metrics that seem valuable. I think “do task x on y number of days” seem quantifiable, so I may include more goals like that.
I definitely want to improve clarity and readability. I have a bit of animosity towards “achievable goals” I’m the sort of person who wants to set goals I want regardless of if they’re achievable, and then stubbornly keep trying on my impossible goals until I make progress, but as mentioned in “A Pragmatic Vision for Interpretability”, separating those kinds of “impossible” or “north star / guiding” goals from the object level goals I expect to actually achieve is probably a good idea. I’ll put some thought into that.
Thanks again for engaging. It means a lot to me : )
Good job, and I wish you all the luck in your endeavors! I think the format of the journal could benefit from adding something like a quantitative assessment of how much you have done compared to what you planned to do. It would (hopefully) help you calibrate, state clear and achievable goals, ease readability, and, in addition, help others calibrate which tasks are harder or easier.
Thank you!
I agree about the value of quantitative assessments, but assigning numbers based on vibes feels hokey to me, so I’ll only do it if I can find quantifiable metrics that seem valuable. I think “do task x on y number of days” seem quantifiable, so I may include more goals like that.
I definitely want to improve clarity and readability. I have a bit of animosity towards “achievable goals” I’m the sort of person who wants to set goals I want regardless of if they’re achievable, and then stubbornly keep trying on my impossible goals until I make progress, but as mentioned in “A Pragmatic Vision for Interpretability”, separating those kinds of “impossible” or “north star / guiding” goals from the object level goals I expect to actually achieve is probably a good idea. I’ll put some thought into that.
Thanks again for engaging. It means a lot to me : )