Diet: WIN! (ate a donair and some fries, but also a lot of salad and fruit and relatively low added sugar)
Exercise: WIN! (walking, yoga, chin ups--3 in row!)
Sleep: PASS (one early, long night and one shorter, later night)
Mindfulness: WIN! (some daily meditation, plus yoga--could be better, but still good improvement)
Love and Gratitude: PASS (rest day yesterday, will visit friends tonight and correspond with family shortly)
Learning: WIN! x2 (practising French, AI class, research)
The biggest news of the last couple of days is that I'm continuing my dive into educating myself in exponential technologies. I've been reading The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, a book that so far is doing a brilliant job of laying out some of the economic contexts and realities of what is currently happening with technology.
The authors mentioned a Stanford AI course that is available for free and has no prerequisites (though what little background I have in programming has already proven useful by Unit 2, and I may need to start learning C# or Python in the near future). Graduates of this course have used AI technologies in impressive ways. One team of three graduates managed to improve a process by 300% with little knowledge of the field, when their competitors were teams of multiple experts with over 15 years of experience working on that specific process. I'm not sure if I am explaining this well, but basically they smashed all previous records, they did it cheaply, and they did it quickly.
Anyway, I'm giving myself a x2 win for the first time because of how much I'm learning, especially since I'm practising French on-and-off all day as well.
It's worth noting that all of this is possible because I'm getting better at taking care of my health. A healthier body means improved cognition, more energy, and a stable mood.
I may not have found a magic bullet to my job situation, but I've never felt more engaged in problem solving, whether I'm working on my own problems or the world's.
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