Week 6 - The 4 Agreements

Hey!

What an exciting week!

I started a new job in a field that is completely new to me: I’ve made adjustments to the trackers in anticipation of less time being available for certain projects, and will probably focus my next ultralearning project around what I’m learning for the job.

More updates to come.

For anyone interested in doing something similar, I’ve also linked below to the weekly Wildly Important Goal (WIG) meeting(s) I’m having with myself to keep these things I’m doing on track. 

Blessings.

-T

This Week’s Book

The 4 Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Last Week's Book:  Discover Your Dharma  by Sahara Rose

Next Week: The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

Updates

The fourth discipline (From The 4 Disciplines Of Execution) is "create a cadence of accountability": they suggest a weekly meeting to review your scoreboards and commitments from the past weeks as well as to make commitments for what you will do in the next week to move you towards your Wildly Important Goals. 

This is a link to the spreadsheet I'm using as an index for the recordings of all the meetings I'll be having. They'll go up on Sundays.

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The minimum viable product for the programming project I'm working on is a mobile data collection interface that allows the user to manually track what they find important; it will make it easy to collect richer versions of almost any data collected by hand that goes into spreadsheets.

I'll be able to control everything I track from one place with buttons, and can collect more data around each event.

For example, say you are starting a new routine using a checklist: when you review the checklist all you know is whether you checked off an item or not. Imagine if you got a timestamp when each item is checked off: you could visualize how long different items take and where the bottlenecks are in your list.

This is a simple example, but I anticipate being able to execute more effectively with richer data collection in general. 

I'm teaching myself the programming language and the framework and building as I go; this app still has a good amount of work to be done, but here is what I have so far.

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Links

Music (~45:00) - RÜFÜS DU SOL: Live From Joshua Tree - Incredible music from a phenomenal group in a magical place 

TikTok - Miss.Excel - I heard about this profile on the My First Millions podcast; she was a consultant who started making Tik Tok videos about Excel Macros and her account took off; she created a series of courses, has since been in Forbes, and now companies pay her to design Excel courses for their workforce. An interesting case study in Tik Tok marketing. 

Music (~8:00) - Mario Benassi: Water Blessing - Beloved musician and activist who made a big impact before he tragically passed away at the age of 23 a few years ago.

Advice - Ben Franklin: The Thirteen Necessary Virtues - The virtues that, according to Benjamin Franklin, "occurr’d to me as necessary or desirable." 

Crypto Project - Protocol Labs - One of the crypto companies I personally find very exciting. Protocol Labs is creating a decentralized internet, and created a cryptocurrency that incentivizes  contributing encrypted storage to the network. The two products in tandem could create interesting opportunities to do to the technology industry what cryptocurrency is currently doing to the finance industry.