I\u2019m an absolute sucker for fictional dystopia. It’s the perfect arena to discuss complex real world issues and hypothesise what the extremes of those might look like. Hugh Howey’s ‘Wool’ does all of this brilliantly, scratching an itch for me that\u2019s not been touched since 2016\u2019s The Power. I discovered Wool through its engrossing television […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,127],"tags":[134,3070,132,129],"class_list":["post-6917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-social-stream","tag-book","tag-fiction","tag-read","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6925,"href":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions\/6925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":4121,"date":"2022-02-28T22:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2022-02-28T22:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:20:03","slug":"monthly-review-february-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/2022\/02\/monthly-review-february-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Review: February 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last month’s goals<\/h2>\n
Because of the enforced rest, my piriformis injury has improved a lot. This <\/span>was helped<\/span><\/span> along by stretches and bridging. I\u2019m hoping over the next couple of weeks to start testing it a little, <\/span>just<\/span><\/span> as soon as my LFTs turn negative.<\/span><\/p>\n I arrived at some changes to my diet. The primary changes were to consume more carbs, while restricting processed sugars. The improvements started well. <\/span>My weight was stabilising, and I intended to incorporate some principles from <\/span><\/span>Racing Weight<\/span><\/a> into my training<\/span><\/span>. The main principles were to focus on running performance and body fat percentage. But, the Covid issue has led the past couple of weeks to a LOT of compromising. Myself and various meal delivery services have become very well acquainted. <\/span>I hope to<\/span><\/span> fix that as we all start to heal up.<\/span><\/p>\n The goal around writing more went ok-ish this month. Each week, I\u2019ve been completing different prompts from Tracy Winchell\u2019s <\/span>Tame Your Monkey Mind.<\/span><\/a> I’ve found it to be valuable. The most recent exercise I tried was writing a letter to your tomorrow\u2019s self. <\/span>This exercise externalises the events and feelings of today and sets out expectations for tomorrow<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>Serendipitously<\/span><\/span>, RJ Nestor writes about this metaphor in his <\/span>most recent newsletter.<\/span><\/a> I recommend it if you\u2019re at all interested in the \u201ctools for thought\u201d space. <\/span>He describes it as “meta-work”, drawing a line between this exercise and the way modern teams communicate using tools like Trello<\/span><\/span>. I\u2019m going to endeavour to continue doing this, with more of a work-hat on over the next month.<\/span><\/p>\n When I considered what I did in the <\/span>playground<\/span><\/a> this month, I didn\u2019t feel like I\u2019d achieved all that much. In my head, I’d iterated what was already there and made the weight graph useful. But when I look at my <\/span>commit log<\/span><\/a> for it, I achieved a fair bit:<\/span><\/p>\n You can see my <\/span>weight graph in action over here.<\/span><\/a> It won\u2019t show much activity over the past couple of weeks, due to a combination of illness and avoiding the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n Up next in playground land, I\u2019ll attempt to integrate a calendar view. It may resemble the Contributions feature present on GitHub profiles. <\/span>Originally<\/span><\/span>, I wanted to wait until I had more data to display. But instead, I’d like to understand whether my data types are right before having to rework them later.<\/span><\/p>\n I had the pleasure of chatting to <\/span>Si Jobling<\/span><\/a> on his always-fascinating podcast <\/span>Make Life Work<\/span><\/a>. We talked about my day job before diving into some of the history and learnings from my <\/span>playground<\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s weird listening to yourself talk about this stuff. But it has given me some insight into what skills I can work on. For example, communicating complex subject matter. It’s a key part of my job, so to get some real-life introspection like this is borderline priceless.<\/span><\/p>\n Good movie watching month, helped on by Covid layup. Highlights were aplenty, but I’ll stick to three for now:<\/p>\n This month we blazed through <\/span>Murderville<\/span><\/a>, while <\/span>Pam and Tommy<\/span><\/a> has proven compelling. We\u2019ve watched lots of other stuff too, but I don\u2019t want to use this as a place for negativity. Those two were my definite highlights.<\/span><\/p>\n Reviewing my podcast listening for the month, two things occur to me. First, I need to take some notes on these, if only so I <\/span>retain<\/span><\/span> more from them than mere passive listening gives. And two, a lot of my favourite\/most memorable listens come from the same source podcasts. But rather than regurgitate the same three sources, I\u2019ve picked out a few different ones this time:<\/span><\/p>\n So that\u2019s February done. I said in my last review that my focuses or themes for the month would be writing, diet, and injury recovery. I didn\u2019t do great, but given the circumstances, it wasn\u2019t too bad. The big headline for the month in our household has been that Covid has finally visited us. 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Hopefully as a way to try to avoid the pitfalls of all or nothing boolean resolutions. Consider this a trial into having a semi-public semi-regular monthly review.<\/p>\n The goal I set for January was to recover my fitness and get back to my pre-Christmas weight. Fortunately, as of this morning, not only am I sub-pre-Christmas, but my weight hit the goal I set back at the beginning of August when I started this journey. I have a couple of potential blog posts around the past 6 months and how I got to here – joining a running club, slow-carb-dieting – but they deserve some time and thought to themselves.<\/p>\n It’s not a direct goal or aim, but I need to figure out where to go next. I’ve never got to my goal weight before – when I’ve lost significant weight previously, it’s been until “that’ll do” and then it’s gradually (or sometimes quickly) piled back on again. So my focus needs to be, what about this eating program has really worked for me, and how do I adapt that to focusing on other things like fitness, strength, and not necessarily a calorie deficit? This is something I will think about over the next week, and in the meantime, I’m going to keep “slow-carbing” – if only because I have a leg injury right now and am running minimum mileage.<\/p>\n With that goal in mind, throughout the last month, fitness has been my main non-work focus. I’ve run in a couple of cross country events, and started to see some gains in my speed.<\/p>\n Outside of fitness, I made some decent progress on my playground project, without doing much more than fiddling with code while I watched TV. I did a bit of CSS tidying up – although that’s something I’m hoping to revisit after I have a calendar-like visualisation implemented (which might be a month or two away). It looks horrible, almost as if I’ve just mashed a bunch of styling together without much thought. Mad that 👀.<\/p>\n I got generic WordPress pages loading in, which allowed me to initially bring my \/now<\/a> page across – so I can not keep that up to date in two places, rather than one.<\/p>\n I think that most significantly, I got podcast integration<\/a> working. I’m really pleased with this, it’s a set of data that I can’t look at at a glance anywhere else. It also might serve as a jumping-off point if I ever want to write anything about the stuff that I’m consuming day-to-day. I have a bunch of Permanent Notes in my Zettelkasten that start off as Fleeting Notes from podcasts, maybe there’s something I can do here to make some of that process public?<\/p>\n And I started in earnest doing something with my Weight data. There’s a bit of a spike over at https:\/\/playground.breakfastdinnertea.co.uk\/weight\/,<\/a> but that might change significantly in the next week or two. I might even pivot libraries, given my experience with Nivo so far.<\/p>\n Next month, there are a few things I wish to focus on:<\/p>\n Not a massive movie month, but saw some corkers.<\/p>\n I caught quite a bit of good TV this month. Yellowjackets<\/a> was by far my favourite. Our lunchtime light binge has been Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing<\/a>, which I’m now sad to have finished.<\/p>\n At the beginning of the year, my only resolution was to review the past month and set some focuses, themes, and goals according to where my life was at that point. Hopefully as a way to try to avoid the pitfalls of all or nothing boolean resolutions. 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I initially only wanted to play about and create some visualisations for it. But,eventually I stopped using that spreadsheet and, like most of my weight-loss escapades, got fat again. In the meantime, the playground developed into a hodgepodge of data sources. There was little rhyme or reason to a lot of it but kept me busy and off the streets.<\/span><\/p>\n You can find the code to register these fields in this method – https:\/\/github.com\/SimonS\/tdee-plaything\/blob\/06bf8d55849db72792c24dcb78ae20b3baa1ee31\/packages\/bdt-customisations\/lib\/register-weighins.php#L11<\/a><\/p>\nPlayground<\/h2>\n
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