• Day Summary

  • Context

• Reading

• Coding Practice

• Reflection

• Key Learning

• Total Time Spent

Day Summary

Yesterday was the first day of the new week for me, when I executed the upgraded version of my plan - my daily driver. Suffice it to say, my sleep went from 4–6 hours a night up to 9 hours plus. I’m happy with the results of my machinations.

As for project progress, it turns out that sleeping 4–6 hours kind of screws with your ability to recall two days later. I made progress of nine pages, but I failed the recreation from memory, which is fine - I’ll have another go tomorrow and hopefully get a little farther than today.

Side quest: I ran my first 3 kilometers in 20 minutes today at an average of 9 km/h, which - given that it’s the third time today I’ve run at all - I’m quite proud of. Peak speed was 15 km/h for a sustained one minute. The remaining 19 minutes were just incrementally increasing the speed every minute, and then every 30 seconds at halftime, peaking by ramping up to 15 km/h at the end for the last minute.

Great concentration. The project is progressing as fast as it progresses. I could make assumptions about what a person should be able to output every day, but since the framework goes for execution rather than deliverables, I’ll trust the system and keep working the system instead.

• Daily Quest: 90 minutes total.
• Q&A with code (25m): reviewed the kata code and asked clarifying questions.
• Reading (30m, +9 pages): p.153 → p.162.
• From-memory recreation (35m): attempted to rebuild; got stuck on enum declarations.
• Metrics: early start kept (began ~30m after waking); phone locked at 14:55 (cutoff 15:00). Sleep protocol on track (aiming to repeat last night’s ~9h+).

Context

• Opened with a focused Q&A pass on yesterday’s kata, then switched to reading.
• Returned to from-memory coding and realized retention of the first half of the chapter was weak (likely from prior short-sleep days).

Reading

• 30 minutes, +9 pages (153 → 162).
• Pace wasn’t the fastest, but focus was good because the coding attempt exposed gaps that needed filling.

Coding Practice

• Q&A with code (25m): stepped through the kata, clarified confusing spots.
• From memory (35m): tried to recreate; ran into errors on enum syntax (declaring variants), couldn’t complete within the window.

Reflection

• Not giving up: the failed recreation surfaced exactly where I have been slipping.
• Early start + phone lock + sleep protocol all held, which supports consistency.

Key Learning

• When the compiler complains (e.g., enum declarations), it pinpoints the next study target.
• Sleep debt likely hurt retention across previous days; improved sleep correlates with better focus today.

Total Time Spent

• Reading: 30m
• Coding: 60m (25m Q&A + 35m from-memory)
• Daily total: 90m

PCT (Project Cumulative Time): 14h39m