Ahhhhhh, getting up super early is so good!!!

I did this for a while back at the start of my job hunt sprint, in March of this year when I was really sprinting in a very full time, 10+ poms a day type way.

Since almost getting the role at Longview, I lost my momentum as I really wanted that role, and there was a 23 day limbo period where I just couldn’t get myself to work on other applications (not particularly skillful, I know!)

I did a bunch of other useful and fun stuff in that time, but now Longview fell through, and a few other things, and I’ve been doing 4-5 poms per day of job stuff and it just hasn’t felt like enough to really get momentum and clear my backlog of post-EA Global tasks.

No longer!!! By 10:30 this morning I had done 8 pomodoros and polished off my application to Philip Tetlock’s organisation, the Forecasting Research Institute. Felt so so good. Early mornings just feel so focused, so fresh.

I fell in a bit of a trap last week where I’d wake up at around 8, meditate, stretch, exercise, do Math Academy, and then by the time I was ready to work on job application it’d be 1pm, and I’d have kinda chill lunch-time energy, plus an aversive big pile of things to do post EAG, so it was kind of an unpleasant week in retrospect.

It’s clear that Math Academy is not the priority. I’d love to snap my fingers and have really cracked math skills, but it’s a long game. Better to just do 1 pom of maths a day consistently, than front-load it and do loads in the morning and deplete my energy for getting a great job.

Anyway, writing this real fast because I still need to do my Math Academy pom and then I’m going to turn off all my devices and work out, meditate, stretch and read my paperbacks. A book about Ghengis Kahn arrived today, and “How to think like Socrates”. Really loving reading atm! I feel like I had a longggg drought where I just didn’t have anything that felt compelling, which has totally changed recently. Amusing Ourselves to Death was REALLY good, really felt like a substantial nonfiction book written by an intelligent, erudite, well educated person, rather than like the Cal Newport style of “this could have been a blog post”. Really felt like a conversation with a wise old man from an older generation, loved it.

anyway, I need to get away from screens asap!!! My eyes hurt