Day 15 Journal part II I also talked with my partner who is also my best friend. He said he doesn't need additional financial support. I wanted to understand his feeling more deeply and to support him so that he can concentrate more on the current work. I asked several questions about his overall income state and decided to pay him more monthly to the degree that he can feel secure while he is just doing the current project. I don't know how long this contract work income will continue. However, as long as I have the same income, I want to use it to support my friend as well, so we can grow together. I visualized the future that I'm still with my best friend. We reminded that our team's destiny is bound to each's personal development, so we can work stronger, contribute more as one team, for example, after three years. He has been having two goals for three months. One for learning English, especially in reading, and another for writing in Korean. The day before yesterday, he told me that he felt depressed because he didn't feel that he had been grown up for the last three months. We agreed that his problem was with his lack of discipline. I helped him by doing several things. We made a similar accountability sheet and wrote each's goal in S.M.A.R.T way. I advised him to find a specific time/place to practice his writing/reading. Day 16 begun. I woke up at 4:30 am. Yesterday, I went to sleep later compared to my regular routine, as yesterday was Thursday and it was a special day as I can just sit in front of my desk and concentrate. :smile: Today, I’m functioning ok, but the overall energy is a little bit lower than usual. I will go to sleep earlier today. I had one hour of the morning session at 5:00 am with Philip. After that, I dedicated 40 minutes for reading. Then I wrote my journal in CGC, it’s another practice for writing in English :smile: I have another yoga class today. It wasn’t my intention, but due to self-exercise on Wednesday, today it has become 3 days streak. I’m thinking about if I can practice yoga every day. :thinking:

Day 15 Journal part I Day 15 done. Such a productive day! I woke up at 4:30 and finished my morning English session. I talked with Tony in a fairly relaxed way. After that, I went to the yoga class. I arrived at the training center 6:50. I did 1.2 hours of exercise. It was around 8:30, I had an appointment at that time with my English language partner. I had 30 minutes of conversation which was mostly spoken in Korean, as it was the day to help my English friend. We also talked about a more efficient way to correct each's mistakes. For example, the native speaker can record the video and dictate the first 10 minutes part, then sending back the corrections to Shan/me. After arriving my office, I talked with a Taiwan friend Louise, as that day was the day for our accountability meeting for reading English books. We talked for an hour. We decided to make a Trello page for learning English which will cover some English materials, journals, goals, and habits. My recent struggle for reading was in planning time for reading, and I decided to wake up 30 minutes earlier and use that extra time for reading. Simple. For that third goal, I've been writing a bunch of scripts, and in this day, I also wrote another one. I usually don't write about details. There is a certain inconvenient step in the car configurator project, which is placing some spot points in the interior scene. I can only see the interior when the program is in "play" mode, so I have to place the spots in this mode. However, the change made in this mode is not saved, so I used to copy & paste values after exiting from the "play" mode. It's caused by a certain aspect of Unity engine, and I had found an idea of keeping those changes even after exiting from the "play" mode. Anyway, it again reduced my contract work hours. :smile:

Day 12 Journal Day 12 done. I had some achievement in my contract work optimization area. Wrote two more scripts, and also I requested the agency that they have to change the google sheet format because it wasn’t uniform and hard to parse. There was another coaching call with @Sri, and we have decided to continue these weekly coaching calls for 3 months. Replying to Ron: I hope you are doing great. More than five years ago, I used to play lots of mobile games and even started playing games at midnight and kept playing it until nearly morning. I felt shitty, but I was able to cut this habit after finding that playing mobile games isn’t that fun. Currently, I don’t have that luxury in my time, especially after my daughter birth. Maybe you can imagine that you are in your late 30s haha. I believe you are a powerful person, so I believe you can stop doing this if you want.

Day 13 & Day 14 Journal Day 13 done. I had a regular routine. Woke up at 5:00 am, had an hour of the morning class. There was a lot of progress automating the contract work procedure. I wrote a few more scripts. For example, I was able to write a script importing the localization CSV directly from the Google Sheet while contacting the agency to notify a new set of rules that one has to follow. I also contacted the graphics designer. I suggested a format/set of rules that I think is ideal for the current workflow via email, and the designer and I had another conversation for 20 minutes on the phone. eg. material naming rules. Unfortunately, he had sent me two more 3D modeling data this day morning. On the call, he said he is also eager to do this task, but apologized me saying he will apply the new rules from the next project. Anyway, overall a great progress! Currently, there is another issue. Recently my partner got a suggestion from another guy, saying he wants to sign a contract with my partner. Instead of saying instantly no, my partner responded saying, “I will tell you back after talking with my friend.”. We talked about this issue on day 13. I told my partner, it’s ok doing the contract work but only after leaving the team for the moment and maybe you can come back. Although it’s not a lot of money, I have been paying some money monthly for my partner which is earned from the programming contract work to prevent the situation like this. I can understand with my head that he wants that money. But from my heart, I feel that something is wrong. Day 14 done. I followed my regular routine. But I had to wake up at around 4:20 am, as I could make a schedule for the morning class with the teacher I like most only at this time. After that, I talked with that English man for 40 minutes. After that, I had a contract work deadline in the morning, so I had to hurry. The new automation scripts worked really well. However, while finishing my contract work stuff, I had found that there was a crash bug in a certain configuration. While investigating the problem, I had to rush to the school bus arriving spot to take my daughter. We had to spend another few more hours in my office. She likes this place, but only if I can play with her. She was patient to wait for me so that I can finish my work. I was able to fix the problem. I had to type in front of the computer while hugging her on the chair when preparing the patch.

Day 10 journal Day 10 done. I missed writing a journal. I almost forgot. While thinking about the reasons, I decided to write a journal in the morning not in the evening, as I don’t have enough time at the late time these days. For the workflow optimization work, there is a certain part where the content is stored in the Google sheet. The usual workflow was exporting the sheet as CSV and copying it into the project folder. Maybe I can write the build script to automate this process. I expect another 1~5% reduction in time. Day 11 done. I finished my morning class with Philip. I asked if he is living in Phoenix AZ. I somehow misremembered his location. I was thinking he might be a match for PLF buddy, as he already has his youtube channel for English learning. After the class, he shared an amazing English dictation site. I felt that I have to include this in my daily session. In my reply email, I shared the link for “p5 js” after seeing his works in CodePen. I wrote a journal entry. It’s about the Ashtanga yoga and the reason I like it. I’ve found that I love something with a clear result rather than something vague/repetitive/boring. (It’s true even in my career, that was partially the reason why I had become a graphics engineer.) Also, I love doing the activity because I’m with a friend who has a similar interest. In yoga case, it’s my wife. This makes sense, as I love doing the app development work with my partner these days. These feelings contrast with the memories of my indie game development days when I worked alone. The problem today is, again coming from the contract work. Because I already have some work to do in the new car configurator project due to next Monday’s deadline. I want to optimize the work process further for this project. There is a certain pressure - I can probably pick simpler ideas and apply them first. It feels like fixing the railroad while on a running train.

Day 9 Journal Day 9 done. Sri sent PM saying he could make another coaching for me. OMG, Thank you, Sri! As a way to show my gratitude, I started reading the book "The Lean Startup". I wrote a journal about my daughter. The topic was, "Why do I love my daughter". It started what if she is adopted. I imagined it and I found that this doesn't change anything. I have found certain characteristics that I admire. eg. curiosity, honesty, love for music & dance, openness, and sometimes courage. Those are the essences that I want to find more in myself and my friends. Day 10 begun. I woke up at 5:00 am and I had a morning class with Tony. I made an important stretch. I booked for PLF Live 2018!(and flight & hotel room) It was right after I and my partner talked about how we would do in the current app project. I encouraged him to learn PLF materials again. While talking about PLF, I suddenly remembered that I got an email from Jeff Walker this morning, saying the seat is still available. I have been looking for a friend who can go with me. Unfortunately, they all said no for various reasons. My partner has been encouraging me to go alone. So I did it. Probably, it wasn't possible if I had no February challenge.

Day 8 Journal Day 8 done. I talked with a friend from Taiwan. Her name is Louise. Samar helped us to connect. Louise is an accountability buddy for reading English books, but we talked about a few more topics including diet, habit, etc. It was the second meeting, and I really liked the talk. Oh, I also started watching, "The good place" from Netflix after Tony's recommendation. I dedicated 30 minutes to write a journal about what I love/hate. It didn't even take me 30 minutes. It was the first day, so I wrote in a rough way which was 7 sentences. I will try in another way eg. thinking about a subject I love and taking time to think about why I love it I also started working on the contract workflow optimization. I wrote a few scripts which can batch the tasks I usually do manually in the development tool. I was surprised because it didn't take much time. I felt already more productive, as I can see those scripts are really saving my time whenever I need to do the same task. It's like 1%~10% discount. My goal is stacking these together, so I can spend as little time as possible while making the same result.

Journal day 8 Day 7 done. Day 8 begun. I have narrowed down and wrote two more challenges for March. They are for bringing more love to my life. - Journal about anything that I love.I could probably write about the things or ideas. I can also write about the person that I admire which may include the current friend. With this process, I hope I can better understand the area that is already aligned well or the spot that needs more work. Also, I can find more gratitude for my life. I dedicated 30 minutes for each day. It's like a small meditation time for myself. - For the contract work, I was thinking about my wife - maybe she can reduce my work, but she said she will be only available at least after June. So currently I have to do it myself. I assessed how I do these car configurator projects and I've concluded that I can further reduce my work. For example, currently I have to run the build script manually when there is a change in the resources - this can be automated. My goal is working on this contract workflow optimization process. It's sometimes like DevOps stuff. But sometimes, I can also write small automation scripts for Unity. I don't know how to track this every day, as this usually involves infrequent long continuous work. Or sometimes, I can just brainstorm ideas to find the specific spot. But the idea for this is reducing the workload that I don't like. So marking failure(x) on the sheet is not a big deal, as the goal is more important. Anyway, I want to do it in a regular way so I stated that my goal is spending at least 30 minutes on this task.

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