Update 2020-05-25: I will stop publishing my times because my likely new work is less public than my old work.
For transparency and accountability I’ll publish the time I spend on core work activities. Update 2020-01-03: I’ve set myself some rules that will hopefully help me have at least two hours more for work each week.
Days off are funded by my paid time off budget.
Note in week 17: These days I have more time for work, because I don’t go to BJJ, due to Covid-19.
Not sure what happened in week 18. Certainly I felt lost and spent more time ruminating. I also had a Japanese lesson and a longish call with a friend.
Balance changes in 2020-04-20-2020-05-17:
|| 2020-04-20w17 2020-04-27w18 2020-05-04w19 2020-05-11w20
========================++============================================================
aia || 1.12h 0 0 0.03h
calendar || 0 0 0 0.03h
piglet-pbvi || 1.12h 0 0 0
support || 1.12h 0 0 0
finances || 11.15h 4.42h 0.02h 0.27h
2020 || 11.15h 4.42h 0.02h 0.27h
03 || 11.15h 0 0 0
04 || 0 4.42h 0.02h 0.27h
harts-rules || 0 0 0.35h 0
ml-study || 0.47h 0 0 0
daniel || 0.47h 0 0 0
network || 2.20h 3.50h 2.05h 0
organisation || 0 0 0.38h 0
piggieback || 0 2.40h 0 0
docs || 0 2.40h 0 0
plan || 0.62h 0.35h 1.22h 0.78h
primer || 0 0.07h 0 0
task || 0 0.07h 0 0
shut-down || 0 0.07h 0 0
professional-meta || 0 0.87h 0 0
self-authoring || 0 0.87h 0 0
resume-creator || 0 6.82h 2.98h 0
pitch || 0 2.77h 2.98h 0
emergent-ventures || 0 2.77h 2.98h 0
thinking || 0 0.25h 0 0
ui || 0 3.80h 0 0
design || 0 3.80h 0 0
wireframe || 0 3.80h 0 0
first || 0 3.80h 0 0
retrospective || 1.25h 0 0 0
search || 14.97h 11.22h 12.78h 27.03h
alumni-sites || 0 0.35h 0 0
automattic || 0 0 5.40h 0.13h
data-revenue || 0.32h 0 0.25h 0
tailor-resume || 0 0 1.38h 0
interview-anki || 0 0.93h 0 0
interview-prep || 1.65h 3.38h 1.57h 1.45h
job-boards || 0 0.25h 0 0
karat || 0 0 1.02h 0.33h
leverage-fun || 0 1.03h 0 0
misc || 0 0.10h 0 0
network-updates || 0 0 0 0.70h
process-advice || 0 0 0 1.50h
skype-number || 0 0.03h 0 0
spark-wave || 0.77h 0 0.10h 22.92h
comm || 0 0 0 0.93h
interview || 0 0 0 2.50h
interview-postproc || 0 0 0 0.32h
interview-prep || 0 0 0 19.17h
stack-overflow || 0 1.92h 0 0
theatralia-starrer || 0 0 0.55h 0
think-tanks || 0 0.27h 0.68h 0
toptal || 0 2.13h 0 0
twitter || 0 0.05h 0.30h 0
time-tracking || 0 0 0.18h 0
wahlapp || 0 0 6.23h 6.38h
design || 0 0 0.50h 2.22h
guided-track || 0 0 0 0.27h
kommunikation || 0 0 0.38h 1.57h
learn-swift || 0 0 0.95h 2.33h
orientierung || 0 0 0.95h 0
research || 0 0 1.83h 0
treffen || 0 0 1.62h 0
wrtgrp || 1.42h 1.57h 2.07h 0.85h
all || 1.15h 1.02h 1.80h 0.75h
prep || 0.27h 0.55h 0.27h 0.10h
------------------------++------------------------------------------------------------
|| 33.18h 31.20h 28.27h 35.35h
In week 10 and 11 the tracked time is little. Two problems: Now that I’ve left AI alignment, the best next action is not so clear, so I dawdle more in between tasks. From now on I’ll make an MIT list every day, which should fix that. Also I spent a lot of time reading random material about coronavirus, mostly on LessWrong. From today I will be disciplined and only open LessWrong twice a week as I used to. (By switching all LessWrong notifications to email-only, I removed the main incentive to open LessWrong at random times. And I’m fairly disciplined with email already.) 2020-04-18: I don’t look at the LessWrong main page anymore, only at the RSS feed of curated posts.
In week 14 I put in work on the weekend to get ready for a phone screen, then start solving a programming exercise.
Balance changes in 2020-03-09-2020-04-19:
|| 2020-03-09w11 2020-03-16w12 2020-03-23w13 2020-03-30w14 2020-04-06w15 2020-04-13w16
===========================++==========================================================================================
aia || 4.75h 2.58h 1.93h 1.88h 0 6.50h
aisc || 1.63h 0 0.18h 1.00h 0 0
toronto || 1.63h 0 0.18h 1.00h 0 0
colin || 0 0 0 0.28h 0 0
comm || 0.23h 0 0.18h 0 0 0
help || 0 0 0 0.33h 0 0
nix || 0 0 0 0.38h 0 0
org || 1.40h 0 0 0 0 0
calendar || 1.00h 0 0 0 0 0.42h
comm || 0 0.87h 0 0 0 0
funding || 0 0 0.38h 0 0 0
ll || 0 0 1.37h 0 0 0
org || 0 1.72h 0 0 0 0
piglet-pbvi || 0 0 0 0.88h 0 0
support || 0 0 0 0.88h 0 0
proof-read || 0 0 0 0 0 6.08h
TSSTOptFarAgPow || 0 0 0 0 0 6.08h
writing || 2.12h 0 0 0 0 0
conclusion || 2.12h 0 0 0 0 0
alameda || 0 1.00h 0 0 0 0
sell-chairs || 0 1.00h 0 0 0 0
call || 0 0 0 0 0 2.68h
alisher || 0 0 0 0 0 2.68h
prep || 0 0 0 0 0 0.50h
donottouch || 0 4.17h 0.30h 0 0 0
prototype || 0 0.82h 0 0 0 0
purchasing || 0 0.78h 0 0 0 0
version2 || 0 1.32h 0 0 0 0
writeup || 0 1.25h 0 0 0 0
faster-internet || 0 0 0 0 0.43h 0
finances || 0 0 0 0.30h 4.22h 0
2020 || 0 0 0 0.30h 3.20h 0
03 || 0 0 0 0.30h 3.20h 0
automation || 0 0 0 0 1.02h 0
add-envelope-postings || 0 0 0 0 1.02h 0
network || 0 0 0 0.50h 1.25h 0.38h
pablo || 0 0 0 0 0 0.38h
office || 0 0 0 0 0 0.25h
curtain || 0 0 0 0 0 0.25h
plan || 0 0 0 0.35h 0.08h 0.35h
primer || 0 0 0 2.18h 30.02h 0
code-review || 0 0 0 0 1.92h 0
all || 0 0 0 0 1.50h 0
prep || 0 0 0 0 0.42h 0
task || 0 0 0 2.18h 28.10h 0
fb || 0 0 0 1.87h 27.67h 0
100 || 0 0 0 0 1.77h 0
101 || 0 0 0 0 1.70h 0
104 || 0 0 0 0 7.07h 0
105 || 0 0 0 0 0.58h 0
106 || 0 0 0 0 0.13h 0
81 || 0 0 0 0 1.87h 0
82 || 0 0 0 1.23h 0 0
83 || 0 0 0 0.55h 0 0
86 || 0 0 0 0 2.80h 0
90 || 0 0 0 0 1.50h 0
91 || 0 0 0 0 2.22h 0
93 || 0 0 0 0 5.45h 0
95 || 0 0 0 0 2.37h 0
96 || 0 0 0 0.08h 0 0
98 || 0 0 0 0 0.22h 0
plan || 0 0 0 0.32h 0.17h 0
submission || 0 0 0 0 0.27h 0
resume-creator || 0 0 0 1.88h 0 0
plan || 0 0 0 0.13h 0 0
ui || 0 0 0 1.75h 0 0
design || 0 0 0 1.75h 0 0
wireframe || 0 0 0 1.75h 0 0
first || 0 0 0 1.75h 0 0
retrospective || 0 0 1.03h 0 0 0
rss-translator || 0 0 1.97h 1.12h 0 0
search || 14.55h 15.53h 21.85h 29.47h 3.05h 3.22h
alisher || 0 0 0 0 0.12h 0
clojure || 0 5.98h 1.50h 0 0 0
clojure-oss || 0 0.45h 0 0 0 0
cmd || 0 2.62h 0 0 0 0
cognitect || 4.78h 0.42h 0 0 0 0
colin || 0 0 0 0.42h 0.98h 2.38h
data-revenue || 0 0 5.28h 1.12h 0.87h 0
easy-company || 0 0 0 0.28h 0 0
hackathon || 0 0.68h 0 0 0 0
init || 0 0 1.65h 0.95h 0.07h 0
interview-prep || 0 0 6.08h 5.62h 0 0
karat || 3.72h 0.43h 0 0 0 0
algorithms || 3.72h 0 0 0 0 0
microisv || 0.43h 0 0 0 0 0
misc || 0 0.95h 0 0.18h 0 0
network || 1.50h 0.97h 1.45h 1.25h 0 0
owid || 0.33h 0 0 0 0 0
pitch || 0 0 5.55h 0 0.67h 0
plan || 1.05h 0 0 0.35h 0 0
primer || 0 0 0 16.72h 0.35h 0.83h
end || 0 0 0 0 0.35h 0
python || 0.38h 0 0 0 0 0
ramit-clojure || 2.35h 0 0 0 0 0
rpl || 0 3.03h 0 0 0 0
sedat || 0 0 0 0.68h 0 0
test-mics || 0 0 0.33h 0 0 0
tokyo-ml || 0 0 0 1.90h 0 0
sparkwave || 0 0 0 0 0 24.13h
task || 0 0 0 0 0 24.13h
sys || 0 0 0 0 0.17h 0
timeclock-autocomplete || 0 0 0 0 0.17h 0
wrtgrp || 1.05h 1.22h 2.65h 1.22h 1.62h 0.90h
all || 1.05h 0.85h 2.65h 1.22h 1.25h 0.90h
prep || 0 0.37h 0 0 0.37h 0
---------------------------++------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|| 20.35h 24.50h 29.73h 38.90h 40.83h 38.42h
I spent more than half of February on taxes and accounting. I expect not to spend as much next year, because I’ve documented the procedures better and much of the time was for automating account.
I’m not sure why the tracked time in week 10 is so little. I’ll be keeping an eye on this development.
Balance changes in 2020/01/27-2020/03/08:
|| 2020/01/27w05 2020/02/03w06 2020/02/10w07 2020/02/17w08 2020/02/24w09 2020/03/02w10
==========================++==========================================================================================
aia || 17.50h 12.00h 4.77h 16.38h 2.63h 10.37h
aisc || 16.53h 0 4.35h 16.38h 2.63h 1.93h
toronto || 16.53h 0 4.35h 16.38h 2.63h 1.93h
call || 0 0 0 7.80h 0 0
main || 0 0 0 2.53h 0 0
prep || 0 0 0 5.27h 0 0
comm || 0 0 0 0 0 1.23h
interview || 16.53h 0 0 0 0 0
postproc || 1.02h 0 0 0 0 0
prep || 14.72h 0 0 0 0 0
misc || 0 0 0 3.83h 0.15h 0
org || 0 0 0 0 0 0.70h
prep || 0 0 4.35h 0 0 0
proposals || 0 0 0 3.05h 0 0
topic-choice || 0 0 0 0 2.48h 0
victor || 0 0 0 1.70h 0 0
checker-proposal || 0 0 0 1.70h 0 0
calendar || 0 0 0.42h 0 0 0
comm || 0.97h 0 0 0 0 0
funding || 0 12.00h 0 0 0 4.62h
thanks || 0 0 0 0 0 4.62h
writing || 0 0 0 0 0 3.82h
conclusion || 0 0 0 0 0 3.82h
alameda || 5.97h 0 0 0 0 0.35h
farlamp || 1.17h 3.42h 0 1.45h 0 0
comm || 0 0 0 1.45h 0 0
fb || 1.08h 2.55h 0 0 0 0
79 || 1.08h 0 0 0 0 0
80 || 0 2.55h 0 0 0 0
planning || 0.08h 0 0 0 0 0
write || 0 0.87h 0 0 0 0
finances || 2.30h 12.00h 29.53h 7.37h 25.58h 0
beancount-setup || 0 0 7.25h 3.67h 25.58h 0
general || 2.30h 1.70h 0 0 0 0
tax-return || 0 10.30h 22.28h 3.70h 0 0
J2019 || 0 10.30h 18.83h 2.33h 0 0
J2019-postproc || 0 0 3.45h 1.37h 0 0
meta-alameda || 0.57h 0 0 0 0 0
invoice || 0.57h 0 0 0 0 0
search || 0 0 0 0 0 7.77h
80k || 0 0 0 0 0 2.22h
clojure || 0 0 0 0 0 0.17h
karat || 0 0 0 0 0 1.00h
owid || 0 0 0 0 0 3.52h
ru || 0 0 0 0 0 0.77h
triplebyte || 0 0 0 0 0 0.10h
wrtgrp || 2.43h 1.63h 3.07h 1.83h 1.67h 1.38h
meeting || 0.80h 1.08h 0.70h 0.68h 0.75h 0.67h
org || 0.27h 0 0 0 0 0
postproc || 0.53h 0.25h 0.60h 0.57h 0.18h 0.28h
prep || 0.83h 0.30h 1.77h 0.58h 0.73h 0.43h
--------------------------++------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|| 29.93h 29.05h 37.37h 27.03h 29.88h 19.87h
In week 50 I took a quarter day off and I contracted the flu. My sinuses weren’t clear enough to study the Transformer as scheduled, so I updated the AI alignment calender and started to apply to the AI Safety Camp in Toronto instead. In week 52 I took half a day off. In week 01 I took 2.25 days off and there was New Year’s Day.
Balance changes in 2019/12/16-2020/01/26:
|| 2019/12/16w51 2019/12/23w52 2019/12/30w01 2020/01/06w02 2020/01/13w03 2020/01/20w04
===================++==========================================================================================
aia || 0 5.63h 0 4.07h 1.03h 3.13h
aisc || 0 5.63h 0 0 0 3.13h
toronto || 0 5.63h 0 0 0 3.13h
application || 0 5.63h 0 0 0 0
interview || 0 0 0 0 0 3.13h
prep || 0 0 0 0 0 3.13h
calendar || 0 0 0 0 0.55h 0
help || 0 0 0 4.07h 0 0
flo-proposal || 0 0 0 4.07h 0 0
measures || 0 0 0 0 0.48h 0
alameda || 0.75h 0 0 0 0 0
farlamp || 17.00h 14.22h 7.95h 20.18h 23.68h 23.43h
fb || 0 0 0 9.38h 23.68h 23.43h
49 || 0 0 0 2.13h 0 0
50 || 0 0 0 2.07h 0 0
52 || 0 0 0 3.08h 0 0
56 || 0 0 0 0 4.13h 0
57 || 0 0 0 0 1.62h 0
58 || 0 0 0 0 10.88h 0
59 || 0 0 0 0 0.50h 0
60 || 0 0 0 0 5.32h 1.48h
61 || 0 0 0 0 0 1.27h
62 || 0 0 0 0 0 0.10h
63 || 0 0 0 0.08h 0 0
65 || 0 0 0 0.15h 0 0
66 || 0 0 0 1.25h 0 0
67 || 0 0 0 0.38h 0 0
68 || 0 0 0 0 1.02h 0
69 || 0 0 0 0 0.22h 0
70 || 0 0 0 0.23h 0 0
71 || 0 0 0 0 0 4.22h
75 || 0 0 0 0 0 2.65h
76 || 0 0 0 0 0 5.42h
77 || 0 0 0 0 0 8.30h
op || 0 0 6.55h 7.82h 0 0
1 || 0 0 3.98h 0 0 0
1 || 0 0 3.82h 0 0 0
2 || 0 0 0.17h 0 0 0
2 || 0 0 2.57h 7.82h 0 0
1 || 0 0 0.27h 0 0 0
2 || 0 0 2.30h 7.82h 0 0
ops || 1.13h 0 0 0.68h 0 0
pyipy || 1.13h 0 0 0 0 0
study || 15.87h 5.83h 0 0 0 0
geron2 || 2.32h 0 0 0 0 0
559-562 || 2.32h 0 0 0 0 0
tftut || 13.55h 5.83h 0 0 0 0
trafo || 13.55h 5.83h 0 0 0 0
supfail || 0 8.38h 1.40h 2.30h 0 0
design || 0 5.52h 0 0 0 0
planning || 0 2.87h 1.40h 2.30h 0 0
wrtgrp || 2.00h 0 0 2.65h 3.12h 3.17h
meeting || 0.67h 0 0 0.92h 0.77h 1.10h
org || 0 0 0 0 0.50h 0
postproc || 0.68h 0 0 0.58h 0.48h 0.57h
prep || 0.65h 0 0 1.15h 1.37h 1.50h
-------------------++------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|| 19.75h 19.85h 7.95h 26.90h 27.83h 29.73h
Balance changes in 2019/11/04-2019/12/15:
|| 2019/11/04w45 2019/11/11w46 2019/11/18w47 2019/11/25w48 2019/12/02w49 2019/12/09w50
============================++==========================================================================================
aia || 0 0.53h 0 0 0 3.67h
aisc-toronto || 0 0 0 0 0 3.12h
application || 0 0 0 0 0 3.12h
calendar || 0 0.53h 0 0 0 0.55h
alameda || 0.13h 0.25h 0.53h 0 0 0
farlamp || 18.50h 18.80h 18.73h 22.85h 18.45h 12.57h
design || 0 0 0.13h 0 0 0
read || 0 0 0.22h 0 0 0
CSASupAmp || 0 0 0.22h 0 0 0
study || 18.50h 18.80h 18.38h 22.85h 18.45h 12.57h
backprop || 4.47h 0 0 0 0 0
geron2 || 14.03h 18.80h 18.38h 22.85h 17.65h 11.35h
318- || 1.72h 0 0 0 0 0
E || 7.78h 15.47h 7.72h 19.35h 5.68h 7.92h
10 || 7.78h 0 0 0 0 0
1 || 3.80h 0 0 0 0 0
10 || 3.98h 0 0 0 0 0
11 || 0 15.47h 0 0 0 0
1cycle || 0 2.38h 0 0 0 0
8 || 0 13.08h 0 0 0 0
12 || 0 0 5.88h 0 0 0
12 || 0 0 1.48h 0 0 0
13 || 0 0 4.40h 0 0 0
13 || 0 0 1.83h 19.35h 0 0
10 || 0 0 0 10.23h 0 0
9 || 0 0 1.83h 9.12h 0 0
15 || 0 0 0 0 5.68h 0
9 || 0 0 0 0 5.68h 0
16 || 0 0 0 0 0 7.92h
9 || 0 0 0 0 0 7.92h
P || 4.53h 3.33h 10.67h 3.50h 11.97h 3.43h
293-294 || 0.82h 0 0 0 0 0
294-296 || 1.15h 0 0 0 0 0
297-317 || 2.35h 0 0 0 0 0
331-372 || 0.22h 3.33h 0 0 0 0
375-388 || 0 0 1.92h 0 0 0
389-410 || 0 0 3.62h 0 0 0
413-435 || 0 0 3.42h 0 0 0
436-442 || 0 0 1.72h 0 0 0
497-504 || 0 0 0 3.50h 0 0
505-506 || 0 0 0 0 0.38h 0
507-523 || 0 0 0 0 2.90h 0
525-530 || 0 0 0 0 1.27h 0
531-541 || 0 0 0 0 0 2.37h
542- || 0 0 0 0 0 1.07h
542-548 || 0 0 0 0 1.28h 0
549-558 || 0 0 0 0 6.13h 0
tftut || 0 0 0 0 0.80h 1.22h
seq2seq || 0 0 0 0 0 1.22h
text-gen || 0 0 0 0 0.80h 0
network || 0 0 1.70h 0 0 0
stay-in-touch-recruiters || 0 0 1.70h 0 0 0
wrtgrp || 3.30h 2.70h 3.55h 3.40h 2.17h 2.30h
meeting || 0.92h 0.95h 1.00h 0.68h 1.00h 0.67h
postproc || 0.67h 0.72h 0.98h 1.22h 0.58h 1.13h
prep || 1.72h 1.03h 1.57h 1.50h 0.58h 0.50h
----------------------------++------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|| 21.93h 22.28h 24.52h 26.25h 20.62h 18.53h
In week 41 urgent and important EA-related tasks came up (account ‘alameda’). They took my attention for a while. I will extend the period I consider funded by Paul accordingly.
Balance changes in 2019/09/23-2019/11/03:
|| 2019/09/23w39 2019/09/30w40 2019/10/07w41 2019/10/14w42 2019/10/21w43 2019/10/28w44
=================++==========================================================================================
aia || 0 0 0 0.28h 0 0
calendar || 0 0 0 0.28h 0 0
alameda || 0 0 12.03h 23.33h 11.30h 10.08h
alameda-travel || 0 0 0 10.82h 0 0
farlamp || 22.47h 18.42h 11.03h 0 0 0
comm || 1.70h 3.82h 0.85h 0 0 0
I1d2 || 0 0.82h 0 0 0 0
I1d3 || 0 0.47h 0 0 0 0
I1e1 || 0 1.25h 0 0 0 0
I1e2 || 0 0.23h 0 0 0 0
time || 0 0.23h 0 0 0 0
ops || 0.48h 3.00h 0 0 0 0
research || 0 0.77h 0 0 0 0
software || 0.17h 2.23h 0 0 0 0
time || 0.32h 0 0 0 0 0
plan || 0 0.70h 0.15h 0 0 0
reporting || 0 0 0.18h 0 0 0
study || 20.28h 10.90h 9.85h 0 0 0
geron || 20.28h 10.90h 9.85h 0 0 0
E || 8.32h 8.57h 3.85h 0 0 0
3 || 5.68h 0 0 0 0 0
4 || 5.68h 0 0 0 0 0
4 || 2.63h 0 0 0 0 0
12 || 2.63h 0 0 0 0 0
5 || 0 8.57h 0 0 0 0
8 || 0 5.45h 0 0 0 0
9 || 0 3.12h 0 0 0 0
9 || 0 0 3.85h 0 0 0
12 || 0 0 3.85h 0 0 0
P || 6.75h 2.33h 6.00h 0 0 0
108-122 || 1.73h 0 0 0 0 0
123-135 || 2.25h 0 0 0 0 0
136-136 || 1.37h 0 0 0 0 0
137-144 || 1.40h 0 0 0 0 0
147-155 || 0 2.00h 0 0 0 0
156-158 || 0 0.33h 0 0 0 0
231-235 || 0 0 0.57h 0 0 0
235-245 || 0 0 2.22h 0 0 0
246-254 || 0 0 1.65h 0 0 0
255-260 || 0 0 0.33h 0 0 0
261-265 || 0 0 1.23h 0 0 0
coll || 5.22h 0 0 0 0 0
meta-alameda || 0 0 0 0 0 3.42h
wrtgrp || 0 1.47h 0.98h 0.33h 0 7.42h
meeting || 0 0 0 0 0 0.17h
ops || 0 1.47h 0.98h 0.33h 0 0.17h
scheduling || 0 1.47h 0.98h 0.33h 0 0.17h
postproc || 0 0 0 0 0 1.48h
prep || 0 0 0 0 0 4.00h
reading || 0 0 0 0 0 1.60h
-----------------++------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|| 22.47h 19.88h 24.05h 34.77h 11.30h 20.92h
Richard's status 