Day 301: Week 44 Plan

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Got an extra hour and still managed to stay up way too late. ANYWAY.

Week 43

Goals

  • Life

    • ✅ Be in bed by 12am at least 2 times

      • On Thursday, I went to sleep at 11:30PM but I woke up at 2AM and couldn’t fall back asleep so I got up, played Starcraft, wasted time, and went back to sleep at 8AM. Pretty terrible, but hey, I went to bed early so it was a start.
      • On Friday, I took 0.3mg of melatonin and OH BOY was it great. I slept for like 11 hours straight and still felt sleepy after waking up. I forgot how effective melatonin can be. I might try taking small doses at 9pmish to encourage myself to go to sleep earlier.

    • ❌ Work out at least 2 times, do yoga at least once

      • Nooooope. Worked out once, no yoga. I wanted to go running more often, but I figured I’d let my calf fully heal instead of injuring it over and over. I think it’s all better now so excited to ease back into working out! I feel like a fat lard from having been eating a ton and sitting at my desk all day errday for the past week.

    • ❌ Meditate for 20+ minutes at least 3 times

      • Did it twice. Ruh roh, everything’s slipping like it did when I came home last.

  • Browserflow

    • ✅ Add remaining flows to gallery
    • ✅ Record demos for all flows in gallery
    • ✅ Submit Browserflow to Chrome Web Store

BOOM! Took care of all the Browserflow tasks. To be fair though, this is honestly like 1.5 - 2 days amount of work. I purposely wanted to set some light work goals so I can focus on setting up a good personal routine.

Week 44

I’m going to continue in that spirit this week. I found out like an hour or two ago that Browserflow was approved in the Chrome Web Store (!!!) so I can start onboarding more people without having to wait hours for the trusted testers list to update!

Here’s what’s on my mind:

  • My Taiwan visa stuff worked out so I can go to Taiwan anytime now
  • I’d like to go to Taiwan relatively soon (in the next several weeks), but I have to look more into the logistics like the mandatory quarantine period, their sanctioned hotels, etc.
  • If I go to Taiwan soon, then I want to focus on fixing up the house like I mentioned before. I’d probably try to time-box my work to certain hours in the morning or maybe even to certain days of the week so that I can look into making this home more habitable and clean things up.
  • There’s also a lot of momentum for Browserflow, both emotionally and logistically. I built a flow today based on a tweet I saw and that was a lot of fun! I want to spend more time building similar flows that are creative.

Questions I need to answer:

  • When will I go to Taiwan?
  • How do I want to approach fixing things up at home? How much do I want to try to do things myself vs. hire out?
  • How do I keep the momentum going for Browserflow without spending all of my time working on it and not doing any house-fixing?

Alright. I’m going to be home for at least two more weeks (probably longer?), and that’s enough time to figure out a lot of the home things. Here’s how I’ll prioritize things:

  1. Sleep / exercise / nutrition meditation
  2. House fixing
  3. Browserflow

I’ll structure my day so that I have to work on things in that order. Otherwise, I’ll start with Browserflow and neglect the rest.

Goals

  • Life

    • Be in bed by 12am at least 3 times

      • Bumping it up to three!

    • Work out at least 2 times, do yoga at least once

    • Meditate for 20+ minutes at least 3 times

  • House

    • Fix or schedule repair of fridge not staying cool
    • Thoroughly clean downstairs and upstairs bathroom
    • Create spreadsheet with list of house tasks and prioritize them by importance

  • Browserflow

    • Onboard three people
    • Investigate allowing extracting data in recording mode

  • Other

    • Research tax/legal implications of the C-Corp that was created for Hacker Fellowship

I’m most split on what work to do for Browserflow. My options:

  • Beta-focused: Add a way for people to pay to join the beta
  • Onboarding-focused: Add an onboarding flow and documentation so I’m not the bottleneck
  • Product-focused: Fix bugs and try to make more things workable with recording mode for easier use
  • Marketing-focused: Add more flows

And of course, there’s always the next major step of looking into running Browserflow in the cloud. But I’ve come to accept that I shouldn’t focus on that right now when I haven’t even fully released the local-only version.

Oh man, and then there’s Intention, which I’m getting quite a lot of feedback about since it became featured on Mozilla’s Addons page. I should also add a paid plan like I wanted to like 8 months ago now….

There’s so much I want to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111