- Sport : ran 23km (moderate pace)
- Sleep : recovered sleep schedule
- Consumption : almost the same as the previous week, sadly
- Visual : practicing basic motion graphics, learning Fusion
- History : 0/2 lessons, was tinkering with the site too much, will fix it next week
- Touch typing : 7/7 sessions, great results:
- RU - 140min, 29/32 letters, 30-50 WPM with 90-95% accuracy
- ENG - 140min, 18/26 letters, 30-40 WPM with 90-95% accuracy
- Listened : Alice Phoebe Lou - Orbit (2016)
- Watched : The East (2013) by Zal Batmanglij | 75/100
This week was pretty productive overall. I managed to tackle several bureaucratic tasks related to work, and now I’m able to work with international clients and even hire people if needed. I’m moving toward my yearly goals at a great pace this month.
As for the sport: my friends, who live in the next building, invited me to run with them in the mornings, and I decided to give it a try. I’ve always been more of a gym person, but lately, it hasn’t been as enjoyable. My previous running attempts failed quickly because I thought I had to run intensely, but it turns out that’s not the case. This week, we’ve been running about 5km with moderate pace each day, and it felt amazing. However, on Saturday, I ran 10km, and the next day I realized that was a rookie mistake. My left knee hurts a little - maybe the load was too much considering my lack of experience. Next week, I’ll try running 3 - 5km per day. I don’t want to rush progress, as it feels like there are many ways to get it wrong and end up injured.
In addition to the previous post: I switched to the Left text editor from VS Code earlier this week. I think it will help me focus on writing rather than getting distracted by coding and tweaking templates. Left has a lot of great features, like page stats, a speed reader, auto-completion, and synonyms - which is particularly helpful since I’m trying to improve my English vocab and tend to repeat the same words.
In an attempt to quit YouTube, I shifted my focus to RSS feeds this week, and it seems to be working. I discovered many interesting feeds and creators; perhaps I’ll add a blogroll section to my web places page later. Of course, it’s not a panacea, as it’s still consumption, but I hope it will help me shift my attention from visually appealing content to text-based and long-form material, at least initially. Ideally, I want to experience more things myself this year. It’s a steep curve for me, though. Interestingly, I’ve noticed that older people sometimes don’t struggle with this issue at all, while younger people don’t even consider it a problem. It feels strange to be in this middle ground.
I’ve been experimenting with different RSS readers, but none of them are perfect for me. For now, I’ve settled on the Feedbro extension for Firefox. It works well, and I like the layouts compared to other options. If you have good reader recommendations, please let me know via email!
Since touch typing training is going faster and easier than I expected, I want to add some English practice to my routines. I’m thinking about reading and using Anki, which would complement my writing practice nicely. Unfortunately, the English-speaking club is on pause because there weren’t many participants, and the host stopped organizing meetings. I’ll try different approaches next week and hopefully create some kind of schedule.
After cleaning up the code and rewriting all URLs, I’m still unsure how best to name blog posts. Many people seem to just use the title of the post, but that leaves them in random order in the folder. I’ve considered adding short dates (e.g., 240119-name-of-the-post), but it looks messy. If you have a good solution or idea, please let me know, because I’m confused.