Escaped Thoughts

I've decided that I need a time compactor, to prevent time fragmentation. It works so well for computer memory, so why don't we apply the same idea to our free time?

What the heck am I talking about, you ask?

I've noticed that more and more, I don't spend my time productively. It's not that I don't do the things I should do (although that's true too); what gets to me is that I don't even do the things I want to do. I've been trying to figure out why, and I think that time fragmentation is (part of) the answer.

By time fragmentation, I basically mean the fact that I almost never want to work on things (work or side projects), because I'll have to do something else in a little while, so I won't have time to get much done. So instead I just wander aimlessly online, or otherwise kill time. If I added all that time up, it would be enough to do all kinds of cool stuff, but instead I waste so much of it. So I need to find a good way of defraging my time—or more accurately, to keep myself from fragmenting it so much. This article is what started me thinking about it, but I think it applies to a lot more than just code (or is it just that so many of my side projects are programming?).

In case you are wondering: no, the irony of blogging about aimlessly killing time online instead of being productive is not lost on me.

Category: Life

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Big curves (on tests) are good

But on the other hand, they basically mean that at least one of the following is true:

• The teacher has no concept of what the students are learning
• The teacher doesn't care enough to write a test appropriate to the level of learning
• The teacher enjoys making people think they have failed until they get their test back

None of which is a quality that I really look for in a teacher.

Still, given that one of the above is true, I'd much rather take the curve than not.

Category: School

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