Published on Sunday, February 7, 2021 and tagged with productivity. Updated on Monday, February 8, 2021.
Ritual is a powerful tool for navigating life. David Allen, in Getting Things Done, promotes a weekly review to take stock of your current Next Action lists, identify projects that need to be moved up (or down) the stack, and plan what's next.
Regular rituals are an important part of my work management, linking together my notebook, runway, and self-care. My particular practices are modeled most closely after the tactical practices of implementing Michael Linenberger's One Minute To-Do List on paper.
In “Holes”, I noted that one of the holes in my work planning and management is a good tool for tracking and planning upcoming work over time. I have now filled that hole with my Runway Document, which also replaces “The Wall”.
Published on Friday, September 18, 2020 and tagged with statistics, research, R, and python. Updated on Friday, September 18, 2020.
I use Jupyter notebooks extensively for data analysis and exploration. It's fantastic to be able to quickly see output, including plots, and have it all saved and persisted and viewable on GitHub.
Published on Sunday, August 23, 2020 and tagged with teaching and CS533. Updated on Monday, August 24, 2020.
This fall is my third time teaching CS533 (Introduction to Data Science). I co-developed the class with Casey Kennington and taught the first offering in 2017.
This intro is a class I had long wanted to create — when I was on the job market the first time around, it was my answer to ‘what class would you like to create?’ — but I haven't yet really been able to achieve what I wanted with it. This fall I am taking a step back and rebuilding it. I hope it's successful.