August 18 - August 24, 2025
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
- Legal Work & Research:
- Continuing to work on and learn about the CPRA; case law; and other legal/court stuff. :P
Saturday, Sunday
- Workflow Analysis:
- Currently reading and listening to Mastery, by Robert Greene. Let's see if this book can help me be more productive. >:)
August 4 - August 10, 2025
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday
- Legal Work & Research:
- Learned about and worked on a Writ of Mandate and other legal stuff.
Thursday, Friday, Sunday
- Dev Diary (Article Section)
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Continued reviewing and revising article alongside GenAI.
Side Note:
- I didn't make the changes regarding my workflow schedule, but I still did better this week.
July 21 - July 27, 2025
Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
- Dev Diary (Article Section):
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Still reviewing article with GenAI.
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) — Software Development:
- Reviewing tutorials and documentations of geospatial software to be integrated with the ATS.
- Conceptualizing the system architecture diagram, which includes logical/application layers, infrastructure components, network topology, etc.
Side Note:
- I’m still experiencing a severe case of burnout. I’m curious if the summer season is primarily causing this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Im going to change up my schedule and start working on Existential and my novel in the same week to see if this increases productivity in both areas.
July 7 - July 13, 2025
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) — Software Development:
- Scetched some visual concepts and generated code of the user interface.
Saturday/Sunday
- Dev Diary (Article Section):
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Reviewing article with GenAI.
Side Note:
- Struggling with burnout. Gotta' keep pushing myself!
June 23 - June 29, 2025
Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday
- Dev Diary (Article Section):
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Fieldnotes (Article Section):
- Tulare County's Attribution (Part I): Modernity
- Outreach (Article Section):
- Branching Out
- Draft essentially finished.
- Being reviewed by GenAI.
Wednesday/Thursday/Friday
- Workflow Analysis
- Figuring out ways to increase productivity, and streamline/automate tasks.
Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Further organizing Google Doc files.
June 9 - Jun 15, 2025
Monday/Tuesday
- Research & Data/Info Collection:
- Created an information request form titled Letter of Attribution.
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday
- Outreach (Article Section):
- Branching Out
- Revised and added content. Still not finished.
Thursday
- Culture, Policies, Compliance, and Governance:
Friday/Saturday/Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- I finished dumping all of the contents of the database software's documentation into Google Doc files then linked the files to NotebookLM. Will continue to organize content as needed.
- Determining next tasks to focus on...
May 26 - Jun 1, 2025
Monday
- Outreach (Article Section):
- Branching Out
- Revised and added content. Still not finished.
Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday
- Culture, Policies, Compliance, and Governance:
- To refresh my understanding of free will and determinism, I read Robert Sapolskys recent book Determined. His knowledge was mostly impactful to me years ago. This book, among many others, will provide valuable guidance for Existential (and my sci-fi novel series).
Friday/Saturday/Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- I didnt realize how extensive the potential database software documentation is, and a part of me wants to speed things up. So Im straight dumping all the contents—including the parts I havent reviewedinto Google Doc files that will be linked to NotebookLM.
May 12 - May 18, 2025
Monday
- SysAdmin (Virtual Private Server):
- Roughly sub-categorized all server software/packages
Tuesday/Sunday
- Culture, Policies, Compliance, and Governance:
- Supporting tenet, ‘Deep Ecology’, changed to, ‘Environmentalism’. This was done to encompass many values and approaches of environmentalism, which will still include a deep ecological aspect.
- Drafted two new company policies under 'Information Governance and Disclosure Policies':
- Public Information Publication Policy
- Needs to be thoroughly reviewed.
- Whistleblower and Disclosure Policy
- Needs to be thoroughly reviewed.
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday
- Dev Diary (Article Section):
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Pre-Final draft complete.
- Under external review.
- Fieldnotes (Article Section):
- Tulare County's Attribution (Part I): Modernity
- Pre-Final draft complete.
- Under external review.
- Tulare County's Attribution (Part II): The Animal & The Machine
- Sub-title of this article renamed may change again.
- Outreach (Article Section):
- Branching Out
- Revised and added content. Still not finished.
Friday/Saturday/Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) — Software Development:
- Continuing to review official documentation, as well as taking notes and having conversations with GenAI regarding the potential database system software.
April 28 - May 4, 2025
Monday
- SysAdmin (Virtual Private Server):
- Roughly sub-categorized 300 of 520 server software/packages.
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday
- Dev Diary (Article Section):
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Fieldnotes (Article Section):
- Tulare County's Attribution (Part I): Modernity
- Reviewed, polished, removed/added content.
- Outreach (Article Section):
Friday/Saturday/Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Continuing to review official documentation, as well as taking notes and having conversations with GenAI regarding the potential database system software.
- Now using NotebookLM for a more organized and more efficient way of information comprehension and retrieval regarding the potential database system software.
- This database software still seems to look promising for the type of information system I want to create.
April 14 - April 20, 2025
Tuesday/Wednesday
- Dev Diary (Article Section):
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Reviewed, polished, removed/added content
- Current Word Count: 1,900
- Nearly complete — need to add some info related to project tasks that are not yet completed
- Fieldnotes (Article Section):
- Tulare County's Attribution (Part I): Modernity
- Reviewed, polished, removed/added content
- Current Word Count: 3,629
- Transferred some content to 'The Calm Before The Storm'
- Nearly complete needs some more content and further polish before external review
- Tulare County's Attribution (Part II): Deep Ecology & The Machine
- Changed subtitle from 'Deep Ecology' to 'Deep Ecology & The Machine'
- Outreach (Article Section):
- Branching Out
- Reviewed, polished, removed/added content
- Transferred some content to 'The Calm Before The Storm'
- Current Word Count: 1,132
- Incomplete
- Added sections: 'Intro to Deep Ecology', and 'Intro to Radical Transparency'
Thursday/Friday
- Art & Design:
- Project/Business
- Creating logo for Existential (similar to a company logo from my sci-fi novel/world :P)
- Official Website/CMS
- Still creating new design and animation for the navigation menu
- Learning about code within an SVG file (representing the visuals for the navigation menu) and how to go about manipulating its path data
- Temporary 'Under Construction' Page
- Created a second box section that roughly indicates the progress of the project
- SysAdmin (Virtual Private Server):
- Made sub-categories of (around) 200/520 software/packages that are installed on my server
Saturday/Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) — Software Development:
- Continuing to review official documentation, as well as taking notes and having conversations with GenAI regarding the potential database system software
- Created spreadsheet for database terms and their meanings, as well as real-world examples for each
March 31 - April 6, 2025
Tuesday
- SysAdmin (Virtual Private Server):
- All 520 software/packages on new server OS categorized (roughly) in a spreadsheet
Wednesday/Thursday
- Fieldnotes (Article Section):
- Tulare Countys Attribution (Part I): Modernity
- Subsegment 'Law & Order' is essentially complete; needs polishing
Friday
- Website Design:
- Created a basic log/portfolio section beneath 'Currently Under Construction' on the primary domain.
- Commented out the portfolio section; still creating my portfolio (locally)
Saturday/Sunday
- Attributive Tree System (ATS) Software Development:
- Completed another course on the potential database system software
- Continuing to review official documentation, take notes, and learn via GenAI discussions
- Researching how a Large Language Model (LLM) could integrate with the ATS:
- Determining which model to fine-tune/train
- Determining which cloud GPU provider to use