# Today's Plan: {{date:YYYYMMDD}} ### Morning Mantra ☀️ **Rules and Constraints** 📘 * First 2 hours of day: Deep work on complex technical tasks. * Remainder of day: Prioritize deep work on task at hand. * If you aren't focusing: make coffee, go for walk, etc. Social media is not an option. * Rabbit holing: Only if absolutely necessary to accomplish task at hand. * Interesting ideas: Place them in idea inbox. You need to focus on the task at hand. * Reflection: Once a week reassess to make sure you are working on the right thing. * Prioritize things that are pressing for work right now. This will ensure alignment and maximal productivity, making you better and creating a positive feedback loop. * Friday morning is for *you*. Focus on what you are most interested in, let it fuel new ideas and spark curiosity. **Gratitude** ❤️ **[[New Daily Plan - 2021#Big long term goals|Long term goals]]** 📈 * Have a skill set so strong and sought after that I can truly chose to do what I want, whether that be work for myself as a consultant, as a CTO, as lead R&D engineer, an educator or investor. Have maximal autonomy, freedom, ceiling, and flexibility. **[[New Daily Plan - 2021#Mid level rest of 2021 goals|Mid term goals]]** 📈 * Promoted to *Senior AI Engineer* by 2022 * Drastically improve engineering skillset * Lead big R&D advance for unsupervised * Gain deep understanding of *discrete* vs. *continuous* * Grow mathematical maturity **[6 week block goals](https://app.asana.com/0/1200309777496794/board)** 🔥 * Work * * Gain understanding of compute, tasks, compilation, sql parser, caching, session, pyarrow * Add in recursive CTE * Research semantics, knowledge graphs * Mutual information * Personal * Think about the idea of hypothesis testing against the business equation...how could this be done in a general framework? * Complete MCMC and RBMs * Learn 3 sketches * Learn about trees **Core Principles** 🌎 * Consistency + Reflection = growth * Hard work * Compassion * Love * Perspective * Strength (physical and mental) **Values** 📝 * *Ship*: Be someone who *ships* * *Alignment*: Between your actions and your goals (and ideally unsupervised goals) * *Compounding*: Be someone who is consistent and disciplined over time. * *Your Journey*: In this world, there is *no one* who is better suited to tackle *your journey* than *you are*. ### Quote to Remember > Do less. Do better. Know why. ### Today Overview **Visualize the day** 🏞 **The most important thing** **Outline** **In downtime focus on:**