Spent Friday refactoring Factorio AutoplaceSpecifications to compile themselves to noise programs. Which doesn't work yet, but it felt really good to actually make progress on that after the first few months this year when I wasn't sure how I was going to go about things and couldn't get into the flow of figuring it out, let alone doing any coding. I listened to this 8 hour trance mix while I did that, and after I got to a stopping point I hacked on ArduinoLightController until I could send Forth commands and get responses over UDP. Then it was like almost 3AM so I went to bed.

I had a dream that I was back in Prague. But only for a week this time. I was at the office late with Kovarex and someone else, and I was keeping busy with something, like I was really motivated to get this thing done, but there wasn't enough time, but that felt good. Also there was like a gym or a spa or something that I went to while I was there.

Another dream about loading my shotgun. I was in a shed along the outside of a railroad curve, which makes me think I was in some Factorio world. It didn't feel stressful, like I was anticipating an attack or anything, so maybe it was just for practice.

There was also a dream where physical data storage (such as thumb drives) were so cheap that people were starting to call them 'files'. Like 'here have a file', and basically just treat the whole drive as an atomic unit of storage corresponding to the data in question because you can. And as I was waking up I was like 'that's actually kind of nice to have your data be a physical thing that you can hold and carry around'.

Today is Saturday. We're going to have a crypto-mining meeting where we exchange some stuff. What else shall I do hmmmm.

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Reinforcement reading of the day:

Aspirational tasks, like writing a book, don’t belong on a to-do list; instead, create a separate bucket list.

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Someday items belong on a master list that holds all the tasks you want to do and is constantly growing and shrinking, says Willner. "You don’t want to work directly from your master list," she says. "Not only is it overwhelming to see so many tasks; it’s also not satisfying to never be able to complete it. Instead, you want to make a separate daily list where you plan which tasks to tackle the next day and only work off that list."

Aw cool this person agrees with what I'm already doing.