2022 Year in Review - Lakshay Sethi

25 November 2022:

top activities in the last 365 days aka Priorities

activity name -- % - (avg hours/day) - activity name

1. sleep - -30.42% -7.3hr - sleep

2. job - -16.25% -3.9hr - job

I love creating Software systems and working as a software engineer. - as we can see this activity is the top activity by time spent after sleep.  In general, the job tag is composed of working with Linux tools and programming and working or meetings with other people about these.

3. food - -5.0% -1.2hr - food *

After job - food is what took most of my time. I am not proud of this. Food is something I need to get better at - When I die, I don't want people to say this man's top priorities were sleeping working and eating food -_- . By the end of next year, I aim to get more efficient at this. It is not that I do not like food, or that I do not enjoy spending time with other people over a delicious meal in a nice environment. It is more that I don't want this to be 3rd on the list of my priorities and things I spend my life on.

4. Driving - -4.58% -1.1hr - Driving *

Just like food this too is something I am not too happy about. Even though life spent in the car is at times very enjoyable - eg when I am singing and going 100kmph on the highway looking at the beautiful New Zealand sky and the mountains. A lot of this time (life) was also spent in traffic and driving at night or driving unconsciously without looking at the life cost and the opportunity costs.

I have a lot of driving experience, I have been in a car accident that looked like a part of an action movie and did not get too much physical damage.

Apart from this I also worked as a Uber driver for quite a while ( tagged as uber not driving). I enjoy music in the car.

2022 was also when I was living in Hamilton and when I was chased in my car by drunk guys at 1 am.

5. family - -4.17% -1.0hr - family *


6. Bio - -3.33% -0.8hr - Bio *


7. Cleaning - -2.92% -0.7hr - Cleaning *


8. Trying or setting up - -2.5% -0.6hr - Trying or setting up *

This was time that was spent trying new things and setting up or creating and changing my environment - Example setting up my room or my car or even setting up my development environments. Setting up Linux servers, or tweaking networking at home.

9. writing - -2.5% -0.6hr - writing

This was also one of the best things I that I think I did in 2022. Writing helps me think clearly and with focus.

10. Shopping - -2.08% -0.5hr - Shopping *


* - goal is to change to prog/linux/exercise/read/write/social/money by next year


 I also want to buy a Tesla and get other good looking cars. I lived in my car or a while and saved money. I spend a lot of time with my family members, I live with them currently and many times we fight a lot with each other, it is not nice. I love cleaning and organizing and setting up and creating a nice environment, setting up electronic systems. I really like writing and write my goals and plans on paper and also use pen and paper to think. I can speak some chinese and take classes for it. I am really good at Linux and Programming. in the last year I spent more than 1500 hours creating software and systems using python and linux tools. I also worked as a volunteer for Plantme.io helping them create and deploy the website. I really like good non-fiction books and have spent some time reading these in the last year. I also like to hike up the mountains and go for walks. I get sick due to the cold and because I don't eat properly also because of stress from family. I pay attention to and keep a very accurate record of what I spend my time on and try to optimize my time investments. I am not a big spender of money - I like to save money to invest instead of buying every other fad and I also can be called a minimalist as I own fewer things than the average person.


 last 365.0 days top activities

FROM 25/11/2021 TO 25/11/2022
2657h06m -30.33% - -7.28 - sleep
1424h25m -16.26% - -3.9 - job (ctek and pbtech)
428h18m -4.89% - -1.17 - food ( Hamilton Restaurants, with family friends)
396h11m -4.52% - -1.08 - Driving ( trips with family and driends + have to + music in car )
375h58m -4.29% - -1.03 - family ( fights and other )
296h47m -3.39% - -0.81 - Bio ( Living in Car )
264h43m -3.02% - -0.72 - Cleaning ( Organising )
233h12m -2.66% - -0.64 - Trying or setting up ( Table and laptopn and in car )
203h46m -2.33% - -0.56 - writing ( good )
182h37m -2.08% - -0.5 - Shopping ( new house and ecl and udemy)
177h57m -2.03% - -0.49 - ecl ( Chinese classes )
172h19m -1.97% - -0.47 - linux ( gitlab Ci and arch linux )
164h07m -1.87% - -0.45 - Uber
157h26m -1.8% - -0.43 - Programming ( telegram bot and manictime )
146h29m -1.67% - -0.4 - Other people
140h15m -1.6% - -0.38 - plantme.io
128h11m -1.46% - -0.35 - doing phone ( insta, email, etc )
124h46m -1.42% - -0.34 - Reading ( because of Owen, Bible, Non- fiction )
123h43m -1.41% - -0.34 - walking ( with fam and friends)
120h53m -1.38% - -0.33 - youtube
104h45m -1.2% - -0.29 - ManicTime ( major )
102h04m -1.17% - -0.28 - sick :/
76h27m -0.87% - -0.21 - goal setting ( Imp but more systems creation )
67h45m -0.77% - -0.18 - money ( management)
59h19m -0.68% - -0.16 - DATA ( photos and digital cleaning )

total: 8329.63

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