Slow Down and Assess (GHD024)
I’ve been feeling a vague sense of unease all this week with regards to my general productivity. While I technically have been managing to post something every day, I have been also thinking that I’m...
View ArticleIncremental Music Preparation (GHD025)
After yesterday’s realization that I probably needed to slow down even more, today’s task was merely to write an introduction for the music exploration videos I’m doing as part of the Music...
View ArticleWebsite Graphic and Process Tweaks (GHD026)
Saturday’s GHDR Goal reflects my recent desire to slow down the pace…accepting incremental progress on website updates! I deliberately picked something to do that was more incremental, and for once I...
View ArticleAdapting an Old Logo for New Work
When I was working on my website yesterday, I wanted to replace the ugly black “default thumbnail” that appears for graphicless posts with something a bit lighter. I remembered my old SEAH MICRO logo...
View ArticleMusic Song Lists for Composition Goal (GHD027)
Much of Sunday was spent assembling lists of music videos on YouTube in preparation for the Music Composition video journals. The idea for the first few journals will be to just watch a few of them at...
View ArticleClarifying Website Focus (GHD028)
Happy Monday! Today I unexpectedly worked on my website’s front page, changing the font and refocus the text to describe what this site is all about: sharing process. A Content Editing Rabbit Hole The...
View ArticleImpromptu Music Day (GHD029)
On Tuesday, I met with my friend Rebecca to play with Garageband, the ubiquitous Macintosh song creation software that is now available for free from the AppStore. Rebecca, a flutist, had a few...
View ArticleCombining Opportunities for Game-Making Goals (GHD030)
Wednesday was a day of combining work goals with personal goals. The personal goal in this case is Make a Video Game, and the work goal is an NSF grant programming gig that extends prior work that...
View ArticleProductivity-Only Email and RSS Subscriptions
There are two audiences that I am aware of on davidseah.com: Productivity Enthusiasts who are interested in the tools I develop and the practices that I create around them. Personal Development /...
View ArticleGroundhog Resolutions Review #1 (GHD031)
It’s MARCH 3, the first Groundhog Day Resolution Review Day of 2016! This is a quite a lengthy review, but I can summarize it as follows: “Got more done than I thought I had, thanks to the obsessive...
View ArticleProject Icon Illustration Kickoff (GHD032)
I was staring at my website home page again, noticing the placeholder icons I’d made once more. They have always bothered me, but I have been reluctant to actually try making nice ones because I...
View ArticleFreeform Recharge Weekend (GHD033-034)
Working on these goals every day, while somewhat satisfying to date, has also been mentally exhausting. For the weekend of March 5 and 6, I took a break from direct action and instead tried some...
View ArticleModeling Revenue and Profit (GHD035)
After yesterday’s card reading, I got to thinking about the products I sell on Amazon. Currently, there are only two: the ETP Small Notebooks and the even smaller 4×6 StickyPads. I knew that they were...
View ArticleJavascript Code Sprints and Broken Printers (GHD036)
Tuesday was a very long day of kicking off a major coding sprint; I’m just wrapping it up at 4AM on Wednesday, in fact! I spent a good chunk of the day reviewing our research code base to look for...
View ArticleRebuilding Code for Engine 1401A1 (GHD037)
Wednesday was an even longer day than Tuesday. I just finished a 20-hour programming push to rebuild my Javascript development process and tools. The next stage of my project work, as I have mentioned...
View ArticlePorting Code Finale! (GHD038)
After Wednesday’s megabinge on coding, I took Thursday slowly after waking up quite late. I ported the old game demo code from Project 1401 (my video game test code) to the new Engine 1401A1...
View ArticleMusic And Friends Day (GHD039)
Friday was a rest and recovery day, starting with a Korean food expedition and culminating with Piano Karaoke in the evening. As far as my Groundhog Day Resolution goals are concerned, it was a day...
View ArticleSuper Accidental Creative Business Brainstorming Day (GHD040)
I have been feeling jittery for the past several days, feeling the desire to work on projects while simultaneously turned-off by the complicated and time-consuming requirements for starting them. I...
View ArticlePatreon Page and Clarified Mission (GHD041)
Several months ago I got an email from a reader inquiring whether I had a donation page. I didn’t, but I told him that I was thinking of setting up a Patreon page, which is a cool website where...
View ArticleScreencasting Test, Long Form (GHD041)
Wow, I’m running a day behind on these posts! Last night was another long one as I attempted to do my first “long screencast” test using Camtasia Studio to record a tour of my housing plot in...
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