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Ted Hagos
  1. To not end a day without writing my notes on what happened (was I able to do everything I set out to do, what distracted me, what set me off etc)
  2. To not start a day without writing my a) things to do b) goals c) a rough schedule of the day; calendar. Make sure that if there are frogs to eat, I do that first thing, if there are two frogs to eat, that I get to eat the bigger one first
  3. To write for 2 hours a day (in 25 minutes sprints each, 10 mins break in interval), without editing or censorship; Some writer (I can't remember who) said "Done is better than perfect"
  4. To read somebody else's code at least 5 hours a week, and try to understand and reason out what they were doing
  5. Solve one problem on projecteuler.net each week (on a new language I'm trying to learn)

I fail miserably on all 5 in the sense that I can't do it consistently, but hey, I'm trying.

I already got the pen/paper down for a couple of years now. I bought really cheap (small) notebooks and pen and I've put them in a) my bag b) the office c) my other bag and d) 3 other places in the house. The notes gets transcribed and transferred to a markdown file which I keep on Dropbox; its done maybe 2 to 3 times a week