2020-07-18 03:20:39 +00:00
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#+title: Work log
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I keep a daily journal using [[file:20200710214307-org_mode.org][Org Mode]] of the things I do while working, tracking
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what I did, why, and how. I make generous use of executable code snippets to
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store what I run in the document alongside the results I get from them.
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While this is useful from a purely historical perspective, it's very hard to go
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back and find entries relating to particular issues or projects. Even when I can
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find entries, they tend to be extremely narrowly focused to the exact problem
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being tackled at the time, and as they're written in the heat of solving those
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2020-07-20 00:58:17 +00:00
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problems, they don't tend to include much elaboration on the bigger picture. The
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difficulty in sifting through a chronological work journal with entries of
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varying quality is noted plainly in Dr. Ahren's book, specifically [[id:c88743b1-79b2-48f5-8702-fbbbc0ffb848][Chapter 6:
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Simplicity Is Paramount]].
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