{"id":597,"date":"2016-04-22T08:50:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2016-04-22T08:50:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:50:30","slug":"i-perform-better-while-drinking-out-of-a-coconut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danieltharp.com\/weblog\/2016\/04\/i-perform-better-while-drinking-out-of-a-coconut\/","title":{"rendered":"I perform better while drinking out of a coconut."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Closing out the week is less arduous than it felt last time around. I feel more fresh than last week, despite (or, because of?) more booze being drank this week than last. I did get a full 8 hours of sleep last night, and I&#8217;ve gotta say, I&#8217;m at a point in my life where I really appreciate sleep. It&#8217;s the best.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VAal6C603F0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today I get my first evaluation from my boss. The timing is pretty good, Nutanix is ready for production as of yesterday and that&#8217;s one of my deliverables for the year. There is one more interim evaluation some time in July or August and then the final evaluation in November. I feel like this could put me in a great mood for the weekend, if nothing else. I want to be told I&#8217;m on the right track so far. I think that might just happen.<\/p>\n<p>I finished reading <em>Time Management for System Administrators<\/em> yesterday on the train, hence the no new articles. All in all, I&#8217;m not terribly impressed. I thought it was going to be a GTD clone, but it doesn&#8217;t do any of the things GTD does as effectively. It boils down to &#8220;capture everything, and make a new schedule every day with all the stuff you have to do, then prioritize each item and estimate how long it will take.&#8221; The problem with the second half of that is that it doesn&#8217;t solve the problem the book set out to do. Limoncelli mentions &#8220;The list of doom,&#8221; which is a book where you write your tasks in and cross them out when they&#8217;re done, and eventually you end up with open issues scattered throughout the book. So instead, you&#8217;re to build the list up every day, rewriting the same junk every morning until it&#8217;s completed. Also, he wants you to set a finite amount of time aside for &#8220;distractions&#8221; and tickets. If I knew that yesterday&#8217;s distraction would keep me busy from 10 to 3, I&#8217;d have planned my day differently. He also suggests writing scripts and programs to automate things. I don&#8217;t think the target market really needed to be told about the potential for automation in their job.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t recommend the book.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/owKi-vJov3Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sysadmin\/comments\/4fyo8r\/in_honor_of_it_being_both_earth_day_and_readonly\/\">In honor of it being both Earth Day and Read-Only Friday&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diana and I are trying out the Wunderlist app, there&#8217;s always an awkward wait at the end of the day when she&#8217;s asking if I need anything from the store and I&#8217;m busy trying to get on the train and might miss the message entirely. With a shared list, there shouldn&#8217;t be any need for such a wait.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re supposed to get to pilot Google Apps very soon for possible deployment to the agency. I&#8217;m pretty excited about that, between the collaborative editing tools, hangouts, and an IM platform we can standardize on, it&#8217;s got a lot to recommend for it. It would be awfully nice if we could leverage some of that stuff. I don&#8217;t really want to set up an IRC daemon on the network. Well, I do, but I don&#8217;t want to have it be the option for people outside of the IT department.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to a quality Read-Only Friday, everyone. Get some documentation in, testlab some new ideas, and try not to make too much work for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closing out the week is less arduous than it felt last time around. I feel more fresh than last week, despite (or, because of?) more booze being drank this week than last. 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