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Please ask before sharing._ Review of this period: [[02021 Amble 2 – Written review]]; [[02021-08 Review]] # Next 3 months ## August - Focus: - Learning, mainly by writing and talking with peers. - 1 day / week for 80K - (1 day) Expressions of interest for Penne d'Agenais Coworking Retreat - Location: - 30th July - 18th August: Freschines - 18th August: Return to UK, London visit - [Travel doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QiM7-R5nw0TEAiRKch1GRSAKzWPM-EwHNSlkKBiNark/edit) - 25th August: London => Chichester ## September - Focus: - Learning, mainly by writing and talking with peers. - 1 week vacation with parents - (1 day, maybe) Prep to make Penne d'Agenais Coworoking Retreat happen; think about where I want to live and work - Location: - 2nd: Chichester => Bristol - 4th: Bristol => Cornwall - 5th-12th: Vacation with parents - 18th / 19th: 1 month in Reykjavík ## October Focus: - Learning, mainly by writing and talking with peers. - (1-3 days) Setup Penne d'Agenais Coworking Retreat? Location: - Until mid-October: Reykjavík - Mid-Ocobter: Visit Oxford and London? - Then: Penne d'Agenais, chez Jerome ## Plan for August _5 weeks from 2nd August._ Meta: - I feel happy with somewhat random and reactive drifting between topics at the moment. I'm game to try another 5 week period in this fairly "open" mode. - I will make some very simple dashboard to keep an eye on these lead and lag metrics. I think I can do something in minutes. Projects: - P32 - [x] **At least one EA Forum post** - [[Sam Scheffler – Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations]] - [ ] **Schedule an ii Salon for mid-September.** - [[>ii Salon—Most important century]] - [ ] >=8 "open days", where I work on topics from my longlist, as I feel like it. - [x] (Front load) >2 hours thinking about funding for H2 - [x] Apply to at least one EA funding source: - [[2021-08 Funding application]] - [ ] (stretch) At least 1 day on TTFT / Matuschak - Fun - [x] Up to one day on comms for Freschines. - [ ] (decided to punt) Seek expressions of interest for Penne d'Agenais Coworking Unit. - [x] At least 2 hours of karting - [x] A couple days of holiday - [x] (stretch) A couple days on dating - Logistics - [x] Travel - [x] Book UK return ticket - [x] Arrange London hangouts - [x] Max - [x] Mike - [x] PM - [x] 80K - [x] AK - [x] HL - [x] BT - [x] Settle Reykjavík dates with Uta - [ ] (decided to punt) Book Reykjavík flights - [ ] (stretch) France life admin - [ ] Find and speak to an advisor about personal finance and tax stuff, e.g. Assurance Vie, personal liability insurance - https://www.expatica.com/fr/finance/insurance/a-guide-to-insurance-in-france-101160/ - [ ] Maybe Signup to FranceConnect https://www.connexionfrance.com/Practical/Property/Second-homeowners-in-France-what-is-FranceConnect Dashboard: - [Twitter](https://ilo.so/peterhartree/) - [EA Forum](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/peterhartree) - [Calls with peers](https://calendar.google.com/) - [notes.pjh.is visitors](https://plausible.io/notes.pjh.is) - #todo showing up metric - #todo peer helps counter (1-1 Google calender meetings?) - #todo ideally i want a single place to see all this, and a burndown chart. Should find existing software or a dev for that. Can I do most of this with a Google Sheet and some IMPORTHTML/XML calls? Lead metrics: - "Showing up" metric: days where I started before 9am, and got in >4 hours focussed work - [x] Target: 6 / week, unless vacation - Comment: This period was very unusual in several important respects. This meant I didn't make the "start before 9am" thing as reliably as I normally would. But I did work pretty hard pretty consistently through the period, so I'm marking this as "done". - EA Forum posts - [x] Target: >=1 (actual: 1) - EA Forum comments - [x] Target: >=3 (actual: 4) - Tweets sent - [x] Target: >=3 (actual: 8) - 1-1 calls with peers - [x] Target: >=5 (actual: >25!) - New connections - [x] Target: >=2 (actual: 14!!) - Notes written / edited - [x] Target: >=20 - Peer helps (#todo what's the bar here?) - [x] Target: >5 (actual: >20) Lag metrics: _N.B. These don't track "rate of learning"very well, they're much more correlated with "other people getting stuff out of my writing" and "me promoting my stuff"._ - EA Forum karma - [x] Target: >180 (actual: 185) - Twitter engagements - [x] Target: >10 (actual: ??) - Twitter follower growth - [x] Target: >10 (actual: ??) - notes.pjh.is unique visits and reading time - [x] Target: start tracking it! (done) ### Rough notes Projects brainstorm / longlist: - Learning, mainly by writing and talking with peers. - Continue / wrap on "[[> Big picture]]" - Experiments - write a couple of book reviews - post > 25 tweets in a month - start an actual blog, in addition to the notes site, with a monthly post target. - start keeping a private journal, or start another public one. - [x] start the music blog - [x] skip breakfast for two weeks, workout in that time slot instead, ideally outdoors. - put a couple days focussed work into attracting 50-100 new Twitter followers that I'm excited to have. I want to low quantity but high quality, so that my replies are really good. - Read Hewitt-Rawlette PhD properly, plus Gus stuff, then discuss - Another EA forum post - Notable criticisms and alternatives to Bostromian world view. - Hedonism, Hewit-Rawlette - Meta ethics something - Scheffler something. - Intro to Nietzsche - ... many candidates, e.g. c.f. [[§Interesting questions]] - Prep another ii Salon - RSP application - Another philosophy tutor - ... - Something to improve funding for September onwards - Autumn-winter logistics / fun - Penne d'Agenais Coworking Unit - Attend Yoga retreat at Vero's place - Organise work retreat at Vero's place? - Not mostly learning projects - Improve The Valmy - [[_Micro-SaaS ideas]] - [[_Next big project longlist]] ## Week-by-week outline **W31 Freschines; settle location plan up to end 2021; finish salon follow up; at least 1 open day** - [x] Logistics & location - [x] Decide about Jerome's place for 4-8 months from mid-October - [x] August travel - [x] Publish salon recording, wrap on follow up calls and email threads - [x] Decide on apply for funding vs trial a developer - [x] A couple hours on notes.pjh.is **W32 Freshines; funding; at least 1 open day; 1-3 days vacation** - Monday: - [x] Morning writing - [x] Update "active projects" page - [x] 80K - Tuesday: - [x] Draft funding application, share for feedback from at least 1 person - Wednesday: - [x] Second pass on funding app - [x] Longview security call - Thursday: - [x] Share funding application draft to 80K ppl - Friday - [x] 80K 1-2 hours - [ ] Wrap on CSS updates - [ ] Wrap on any other "logistics and planning" - [ ] EOI for coworking unit - Saturday / Sunday - [x] Submit funding application - [x] At least 1 day off **W33 Freschines => UK travel week; decision theory; smalls** - Mon - [x] Update plan - [x] Travel logistics - [x] Covid test - [x] Locator form - Tues - [ ] At least 1 hour on decision theory - [x] Freschines goodbyes - Weds - [x] Travel Freschines => London - [ ] At least 1 hour on decision theory - Thu - [ ] At least 1 hour on decision theory - [x] PM lunch - [x] AK dinner - [x] London meetings and social - Fri - [x] 80K Day - [x] 80K lunch - [x] BT coffee - [x] Evening social - Sat - [x] Lunch and dinner with Max - _Edit: Decided to extend stay in London and to Oxford on Monday_ - Sun - [x] Day off: mixing concrete with Max **W34 UK; EA Forum post draft; Interintellect salon draft; TBD** - [ ] Make sure I'm on track to meet target for tweets, forum comments, etc. - Mon - [x] Oxford visit: see JV, FM, ideally also SD, JP - Tues - [x] Logistics, other smalls - [x] 2/3 day off (dating) - Weds - [x] Logistics, other smalls - [x] Travel London => Chichester - [x] Attend ii Salon on Places to Think - Thurs - [x] Day-by-day plan for rest of period - [ ] Free writing, then start drafting EA Forum post. - [ ] Nietzsche? - [ ] Scheffler is the quick one. - [ ] (stretch) ii Salon longlist to shortlist, write desc - Fri - [ ] - Sat - [ ] - Sun - [ ] 19:00 Bridge **W35 UK; EA Forum post publish; Interintellect salon publish; TBD** - Mon - [ ] 80K day? - [x] 5pm Pamela call - [ ] Talk to AK. At some point ask about her Nietzsche reading notes and process. Want to continue that conversation. - Tue - [x] Reflect PDA coworking retreat, if yes, draft project sheet, then draft and send EOI to at least 2 ppl. - [x] Answer: maybe, maybe not. Punt decision to at least late Sept, probably sometime Oct. - [x] 4:30pm Christian call - [x] London evening date - [ ] Email Peloton re: reclassifying Hartreeworks and situation with me in France. [[-Personal finance]] - Wed - [x] 80K 1/2 day - [x] 4x calls & meetings - Thu - [x] Scheffler draft - [ ] Monthly review (personal finance etc) - [x] 6:30pm Call: MM - [x] 7:30pm Dinner: Max - Fri - [x] Calls and call follow up - [x] Scheffler draft - Sat - [ ] Train to Truro, drive to Coverack - Sun - [ ] Day off / overflow / review of period **W36 Cornwall** - [ ] (Up to 1 day) - [ ] Overflow from last period - [ ] Written review - [ ] First draft plan for next period - [ ] 1 week vacation with parents ## Do not do - Schedule too many calls. Last week of July was borderline too much / too distracting. - Any significant work on SaaS projects. It's a distraction. - Get non-trivially drawn into other people's projects (i.e. hours or maybe days is fine, weeks is not). - More than a few hours thinking about personal finances. Things are basically ok, punt to later. ## Key uncertainties - Should I get going with trying to hire a developer? I have a lot of great "mini trial" projects on my backlog atm, and it would be wondeful to have someone. - Working answer: prioritise funding application over this. ## Trigger questions - [x] [Life areas check](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cnXFUkclho2iWuYyUCiT55uAh4bdQE0NP7L3jbgeZr4/edit#gid=139582161) - [ ] What is the 10x more ambitious version? - Find an absolutely world class philosophy mentor / tutor and then spend a lot of time speaking with them. #todo - Find 2-3 fairly different very good tutors. - Secure significant funding - [ ] It's the end of the month and something went badly wrong. What was it? - I started dating the wrong girl. - I got RSI or back or neck pain. - I crashed my car. - I started drinking too frequently. - I got COVID - I annoyed someone, or otherwise damaged a relationship - I got too - [ ] Thinking sideways ## Patterns, routine, structure Daily: - 7:30 Morning walk / run / workout / yoga => meditation - Then morning writing - At least 30 minutes every day - At least 1.5 hours on work days - Then project work - No inbound and smalls before midday - After lunch nap Weekly: - Mon: 80K - Tue: - AM: Project work - PM: Inbox, shortlist, calls, write to ppl - Wed: - AM: Project work - PM: Inbox, shortlist, calls, write to ppl - Thu: Project work - Fri: Project work - Sat: - AM: - First thing: Review last week, plan next week - Then: Project work - PM: Open / calls / fun - Sun: - Rest / fun Grace: - Daily short meditation or yoga - Theme: pace & rhythm - Notice rush, notice trying to do too much. - Daily kindness - Daily connection - Daily gratitude ## Scratchpad