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I don't have anything like a todo list. But I do have habits that I followed religiously. I guess you can call it "Invisible Important TODO Items For Today".

There are three items that I do every single day:

1. Write 500 words a day, in which I usually spend writing about half baked random things like "fear inoculation", "legoization" or "Conquering Rome with Science". You can see random stuff at http://kibabase.com/articles/notes-and-thoughts

2. Walks 10K steps a day. I did it for an experiment that supposed to last 30 days, now it's in 37th days total. I am trying to build an analysis tool that output pretty JSON of my data, but somehow keep neglecting it. You can read what I have so far here: http://kibabase.com/articles/self-quantification#interventio...

3. Measure my step count, my blood pressure, my weight, and my pulse.

Well, actually there's a fourth item: read a book everyday.

It turns out that I didn't do the million other things that I wanted to do but never do consistently, including coding. Coding should at least be a priority.

I can say with a straight face that even writing 500 words a day about random things makes progress. Out of the random things pile in my Notes and Thoughts page, I eventually spun off two essays, one of which is about my self quantification effort in which I am currently doing 10K steps a day, the others is for logging the ideas of the 16+ books I read so far this year. I expect to add more essays to my site over time as essays mature from my primordial soup of random ideas and notes.

These activities help keep me healthy and sane. It also makes me feel like a badass, even when I am not.




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