Another day working with AI

Today I reviewed what I learned yesterday and planned the work ahead more carefully. With making things as the aim, I set out five tasks:

1. Write about Micron’s financial report.
2. Write practical guides to Google and GitHub.
3. Train my mind by studying four foreign languages over the coming year.
4. Write a series of reflections on books about logic.
5. Push my daily reading above 30,000 Chinese characters.

It is a complicated and demanding program. Some parts resemble things I have done before, but this time the emphasis on producing work is stronger. I want learning to feed production and production to deepen learning.

I also made a new checklist for examining my standards. If language study is meant to train my mind, I need ninety minutes of morning reading, half an hour with an English book, and forty-five minutes with English financial reports each day. I plan to use a Pomodoro timer to watch my focus and stay off my phone during breaks. These are the rules I have set for myself.

The same applies to tutorials. They should be engaging, with comparisons that actually help, and useful enough to remain so in five or ten years. Views and completion rates matter less than making the thing well. The list is long and mixed, but I can break it down and carry it out day by day, updating the standards as I learn.

Growth, to me, means raising the standard for my work as I do it. I remember reading Elon Musk’s account of learning during an internship that he did not want to work for someone else, then pursuing a company of his own after graduation. I relate to the feeling. I sometimes flare up when someone directs me, especially if their authority seems to come from age rather than expertise. I often keep quiet for longer-term reasons, but the irritation can hurt my concentration.

Perhaps I am writing this partly to let off steam. Take it with a smile.