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I remember that several years a go in one of my jobs we used to apply this… I thought it was genius, although I dont remember was called Eisenhower Matrix. Anyway, obviously, I never applied to myself. And today, I have read the best explanation I can remember so far. So I must post-it.

1)Emotional Regulation: Source

2) Where are you?: You’re always where you leave yourself

What happens when you dont have it. Praise to the person.

Mindset Doctor: I struggle watching long videos in youtube (lack of time, many things to do, excuse(x)). I liked he used the concepts of chimp/human/computer brains (that reminded me again to this book) And how clear he was saying you need to befriend your chimp, anxiety is natural!, you need your chimp to vent, etc etc.

Inner Strength: This is a different world of endurance and mental strength. I need to read the second book of David Goggins.

Gut health: Interesting, we need more fiber.

And I need to improve my stretching (another), mainly because running.

You can run a LLM in your laptop. I need to try to play with this things.

Just take a break between meetings: link

Google Lens: I bought a plant last weekend and I dont know the type… so no idea how to look after it. GL can help you to identify photos. I was quite surprised (as google search is underperforming for some time…) This is my new plant, spineless yucca. Let’s see how long it survives me.

Milgran Questions: via 3MM. And anecdote about Churchill, interesting.

When punishment for what people say becomes widespread, people stop saying what they really think and instead say whatever is needed to thrive in the social environment.

Thus, limits on speech become limits on sincerity.

• Interesting read about linux networking at TCP port level. It shows you how complicated can be but still amazing to understand Linux kernel.

• Some views about AI:
  • 1) link1: Cory Doctorow about bubbles and AI. Models that run on commodity hardware will survive. He uses a 2×2 grid based on value (how much you will pay) and risk tolerance (how perfect the product needs to be)
  • 2) link2: Bill Gates views for AI. It is the word for 2023. And future for 2024. Still I think in link1, AI has to be democratic and easily available. I doubt most developing countries can afford NVDIA H200 in Azure…. I agree nuclear (fusion) energy is the only way forwards in the Western world until we have viable fision energy.
  • 3) link3: Prompt Engineering

• Unstoppable motivation: This is an unexpected pearl. Intrinsic motivation is always preferred (more effective and energized) than extrinsic motivation (external elements: money, prizes, people opinion). But not always is so clearly binary. Extrinsic motivations can help too:
  • “Introjected Motivation. “I’m doing this because I’ll feel guilty or bad about myself if I don’t.” People who highly rated this statement have high introjected motivation.”
  • “Identified Motivation. “I’m doing this because I truly value the goal it’s helping me work towards.” People who highly rated this statement have high identified motivation.“
• Because having intrinsic and extrinsic will give you more tools to move forwards when one of them weakens.
• “the only type of extrinsic motivation that corresponded with greater happiness was identified motivation. In other words, it was the hikers who motivated themselves by aligning their actions with what they truly valued and who not only completed the trail—but also felt happiest at the end of it“
• And the most important part of the article: How to get more intrinsic and identified motivation in your life:
  • Figure out what really matters to you: For me this is the most complex and scary part.
    • Long Term: The eulogy method
      • Medium Term: How will be your life in 5 years time if you follow Current path, alternative path and radical path? money, social obligations, and what people would think, are irrelevant. No excuses
      • Short Term: Wheel of life: measure your health, work and relationship.
  • Definitely I need to do the medium and short term. That would clarify many things…

• 8 steps: i have read about rules but this keeps some basic into perspective:
  • Take care of yourself: shower, dress, etc
  • Order your room, kitchen, etc: your kingdom = yourself
  • Go outside – socialize
  • Sweat: work out
  • Money: control your economy.
  • Remove dependencies: sugar, diet attention (emails, youtube)
  • Strategy – create your action plan.
  • Execute: dont overthink

• 40s crisis: I think we “overestimate” our cultural background, we think our lives are going the same phases as our grandparents or later. Quite wrong. This is a new phase and “recent” (half XX century). We are at the peak and we only see ahead the downwards of life. Likely our grandparents were already at 40. We have the social life cycle. That creates age-anxiety if we dont meet that cycle. Divorce increases along the years in XX century to reorient live. Min 31:25 is a pearl: We dont begin to live until we begin to die. And the real American dream (not based on materialism / radical capitalism) and moving to happiness in a hurry (consuming) created that crisis because you couldn’t achieve that American dream.

• Application of Game Theory: Prisioners Dilema: Simplest win, tit for tat:
  • – nice (vs nasty): you dont defect first
  • – forgiving: you can retaliate but forgives
  • – retaliatory: strike back immediately, dont be a push over.
  • – clear: eye for eye
• Interesting is that a small cluster of tip for taps can take over a population of nasty strategies. Most life is not zero-sum, try to find win-win.

• PostgreSQL upgrade without downtime: Slides are ok, but would be nice to get the video for more details.

From Andrew Huberman. Based on these two videos: 1 and 2

Get Alert: Deep Breathing

Get Focus: Focus in a point for 30s

Time Limit: 90 minutes. Batching.

Gap Effects: breaks of 10 sec doing nothing

NSDR: Non-Sleep Deep Rest: napping or meditation.

This week I have had a bit of a struggle with git when trying to develop a change and I was getting constant conflicts when trying to get my branch up to date with main.

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing: A refresh for merge vs rebase. When I first started with git, the environment was pro rebase. But after that job, all places were pro merge. Somehow I visualize better a rebase. I will start using rebase to see if I really understand.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/git-diff-and-patch/: That’s how I finally managed to push my change into master. I had a diff generated by my gitlab PR and applied it into master.

https://opensource.com/article/21/4/git-stash: Something I already commented about but hardly used.

https://opensource.com/article/21/3/git-cherry-pick: Never used it but I was reading about this week as I thought was my only way out from the merge conflict nightmare I was in.

I watched this video yesterday by coincidence . I was keen to know about making learning addictive. And honestly, I liked the video, it was funny and informative. And it is interesting that you can turn evil manipulations into positive ones. I didnt know the presenter was the founder of duolingo and he was from Guatemala. I use duolingo to learn languages, I am not sure if you can really learn a language this way (at least I am not that smart) but it helps to practice a little, and then the compound interest should get you to some decent level. This remind me to brilliant. It is something I wanted to use, but at the end of the day, I dont have time for all things I would like to do. I need to focus in the things I really need to do.