An Experiment in Scotch

Fri­day and today were worth­less in regard to actu­ally writ­ing any soft­ware. I have done sev­eral use­ful things today, just none related to soft­ware. Part of the prob­lem has to do with the habits learned at Bill­Ma­trix, e.g. start­ing the day by catch­ing up on news and what­not. That is a deal killer if there …

Today, I’m strug­gling with moti­va­tion. Just haven’t been able to get going on much of any­thing, other than read­ing Neil Sperry’s e-garden newslet­ter. Part of that has to do with a sched­uled lunch at 11:30 but part just seems to be gen­eral lack of desire. I thought a run this morn­ing would help but not …

Today has been far more pro­duc­tive than yes­ter­day. The site is still ass-ugly but the func­tion­al­ity is com­ing along decently. It’s still a strug­gle to get into the groove and mostly that’s due to hav­ing to learn Mako, SqlAlchemy, Pylons and Post­greSQL all at the same time. My infor­ma­tion over­load switch has been thrown and …

I’m find­ing that I lack the abil­ity to con­cen­trate for long peri­ods of time. I think con­cen­tra­tion is a habit, one you can fall out of and work­ing at Bill­Ma­trix for 7 years on top of my already bad habit of being dis­tracted by shiny, jan­gly things has put a seri­ous hurt on my abil­ity …

So my plan is to doc­u­ment how­ever long this lit­tle no hav­ing a job exper­i­ment goes on. My apolo­gies for 95% of my read­ers who are non-technical but most of these lit­tle daily sum­maries will be focused on my learn­ing process. I’m set­ting the clock as of yes­ter­day since the first two days of the …