April 2023 month in review

since this is the second time we are doing this for a month it will make sense to compare how we did last month to this month



April 2023:


as we can see the time invested in Linux has decreased from over 3 hours in March to less than 3 hours in April 2023.

The reason for this is because I recently changed jobs and I'm not doing as much Linux work in the new workplace immediately as I was doing in the previous workplace.

There has been an increase in the Trying or setting up tag which is mostly what I've been doing in the new workplace.

- getting set up

I'm not too happy with this actually
I don't want to spend an eternity setting up I actually want to do Linux or programming work

I take full responsibility for the lowered Linux and programming and high trying and setting up this month.
And next month I will try to reduce trying and setting up to a maximum of 0.4 hours on average per day

next month I will also try to increase the amount of time I spend on programming and Linux

next if you see writing has decreased from 2 hours on average per day in March to almost 1.6 hours per day in April

I'm also not very happy with this this is a regression

writing is important because writing helps us think clearly and make better choices and decisions
although this is not a significant decrease in amount of writing next month I will try to write more


there has a been decrease in other people and food tags which is good 

The other people tag was mostly comprised of not win-win with other people and we want to reduce the win-lose and lose lose situations with people.
So I will keep up doing what I'm doing to decrease the amount of win lose situations

well I have been doing is:

I have been focusing a lot on making sure that I measure at all times how much time is being spent on what activity


I have also set up the dashboard on a monitor that is mostly always on and always in my site so that I can see everyday how much time is spent in the last 24 hours on all activities sorted by most time spent

which has helped me stay focused on important activities and reduce the other people tag


as you can see driving has increased a lot in April 2023
and driving was almost not visible in March 2023

again this is due to me changing the jobs

I plan and predict driving to reduce to less than half an hour per day in May 2023


Too much time was spent on (ecl) Chinese learning in April

I have no idea why.

I will try to reduce it in May by just scheduling a maximum of 3 hours class per week



So in summary although we have been good with reducing win lose situations with other people
 I would say April was a failure

we have had a regression in Linux
we have had a regression in writing
And we have had a regression in driving



we have also been good with walking a lot which is better than March


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