Organization
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefLast week my goals were: Write more on thesis not as much as I wanted, but some progress Create slides for presentation – made plan, have a good idea of what I want to do CA Project plan (need to find out what this entails) WISE event Write survey for other project – on hold…
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefGoals for this week were: Next Twitter Visualization (super excited about this) CA Project outline Read 5 papers Marking :’( Move ToDo Lists over to Remember The Milk Write more on thesis, get to the point where papers can be integrated Write survey for other project (more soon!) 3 blog posts I also: Worked on…
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Effectiveness, not Efficiency
→: Effectiveness, not EfficiencySomeone once described me as “scarily efficient”. I have to say, I took it as a huge compliment. However after reading The 4-Hour Work Week (Tim Ferriss – Amazon) and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R Covey – Amazon) I’ve been focusing more on Effectiveness. There’s an important distinction. You can be…
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefGoals for this week were: Finish coding current mini-project Write more on thesis, get to the point where papers can be integrated Finish Combinatorial Algorithms assignment Meet with CA prof to talk about project Read 4 papers Read thesis – “Networking in Everyday Life” 2 blog posts Portfolio website – add all pages and finish…
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Collaborating on Google Wave
→: Collaborating on Google WavePeople are surprised by this, but there was a period that I checked my email just once a week a la Tim Ferris (Amazon). This was during my gap year when I was working and although it annoyed various people – my boss, a guy I worked with, some of my friends… I didn’t have…
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefFor this week my goals were: Clubs week for WISE Organize movie night (try and delegate) TA in French, don’t meltdown Incorporate giant pile of papers into Introduction Polish introduction such that I can send it to my supervisors Coding: phase 1 ended up coding something different, but I’ve made significant progress on it Assignment…
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Week in Brief
→: Week in BriefSo last week I put up a list of things I hoped to get done last week. I did not achieve all of them, or anywhere near. WISE Speaker event WISE Coffee social (bake!) WISE Self-defense seminar – Questionable whether I can check this off, it was a disaster. Organize meeting for WISE, outline the…
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Time
→: TimeBeing so busy this week has got me thinking about the concept of “having time”. We all have 60 minutes in each hour and 24 of them in each day for however many weeks, months, years or – hopefully – decades we have left on this planet. We just can’t know how long that is.…