yashkaf/time

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Time Well Spent

Data for this goal is manually entered.

DAY	DELTA	TOTAL
Sat (11th)	+53	16253
Sun (12th)	+83	16283
Mon (13th)	+113	16313
Tue (14th)	+143	16343
Wed (15th)	+173	16373
Thu (16th)	+203	16403
Fri (17th)	+233	16433

Datapoints ?

Your actual reported data. The color shows where you are with respect to your bright red line:

Green:
> 3 days of buffer

Blue:
~ 2 days of buffer

Orange:
~ 1 day of buffer

Red:
crossed the red line
Bright Red Line ?

Keep your dots on the good side of this bright red line!
Colored guiding lines ?

The orange line shows one day of safety buffer. The blue line is two days, and the green line demarcates seven days of safety buffer.

(If you keep your safety buffer at 7 days or higher then you're immune to being stung. If anything comes up, just flatten your bright red line. It will take effect after the 7-day akrasia horizon but since you have that much safety buffer, you're golden!)
Yellow guide lines ?

These thin yellow lines indicate the good side of the bright red line.
Akrasia horizon ?

This line is a week away from now. You can only make changes in the steepness of your red line beyond the akrasia horizon.
Pink zone ?

This shaded pink zone on the wrong side of your bright line shows the bare minimum that you are committed to doing this week. Your red line can never get easier and dip into this forbidden zone.
Infinitely safe region ?

This light yellow shaded region shows the infinitely safe area. If your datapoints are in this zone, then you have exceeded the final total of your graph, and your safety buffer is unbounded. You usually see this as your goal approaches the end date, or if you have an infinitely flat bright red line for some reason.
Skull & Crossbones ?

We fly the Jolly Roger on your graph if it freezes. The primary way this happens is if you derail when your graph is scheduled to be archived.
Watermarks ?

The watermarks in the corner regions of your graph (shown darker here) indicate your current pledge amount and how much safety buffer you have. How safe you are is shown on the good side of the red line, and the amount pledged is shown on the derails-this-way side.

Features not enabled on this graph:

Optimistic projection (deprecated) ?

An optimistic view of progress, i.e., a view of your data through rose-colored glasses. It shows your inexorable march towards your goal. If you're bouncing around it just shows you flat. When you go down (or whichever direction your goal is), it shows you that right away.

It never shows you going up (or whatever the wrong direction is) unless it's sure you've screwed up.

If you find the random fluctuation unnerving, you can focus on the pink dots day-to-day.
Moving average ?

This is a moving average implemented as an IIR filter. If most of your daily numbers are below this trend line then you are inexorably dragging it down.

For the case of weight loss, this was inspired by The Hacker's Diet as a way to see the forest through the trees, to see past the daily random fluctuations to what your weight is really doing.
Smoothed trend swath ?

Think of this as a very thick line charting your progress or an aura around your actual data. It's like the moving average line but fatter and smoother, and it extends past your actual data as a kind of projection into the future, in case that's useful. (Gory details on the blog.)
Max flux ?

This thicker yellow line denotes the user-specified maximum daily fluctuation, shown as an offset from the bright red line. Details in the FAQ.
Standard flux ?

This dashed yellow line indicates a so-called 90% variance derived from your data, shown as an offset from the bright red line. Details in the FAQ.

This goal has the following fine print specified by yashkaf:

The point of this goal tracking is to dedicate my time to activities that make my life better. Timepoints are given for each half hour spent doing the following things:

-3 points: Usage of any screen (TV/internet) after midnight on a weekday.
-2: Sleeping under 7.5 hours
1: Walking, books, fun skill building like Duolingo and math puzzles.
2: Engaged time with Terese, friends, family or at social events. Time on actual job, cooking and playing sports.
3: Chores, gym, writing and learning necessary skills (Coursera or textbooks).
4: Volunteering or other effort that exclusively helps others.

Also:
-1 points for each 25 grams of sugar in a mostly-sugar food, each $10 spent on pointless consumerism
10 points for each of two main tasks I assign on Sunday.

* The tracking is done on the Google doc.
* OK to enter rounded down estimate if not tracked on the doc.
* 32 points a day automatic for vacation.

Example week to meet goal exactly: Complete both main tasks, 3 hours working + 0.5 hour socializing at work, 14 hours with Terese/friends, 5 hours reading, 10 hours walking, 1 of soccer and 1 in the gym, 4 hours on chores and studying, 4 on Putanumonit, a couple of nights playing Civilization until 1:30 am and a 3-4 pieces of cake.

Amounts Due By Day

Goal Progress

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