I quit contracting 6 months ago

I've been tracking my time in great detail as I work on various projects and I am hoping others will find this interesting!

This is a very interesting article, but hijacking middle mouse click to scroll made the experience of reading it pretty annoying.

Some friendly advice: your charts are almost impossible to understand. They may make sense to you, but they are utterly meaningless to most anyone else. I suggest that as you continue writing, you should take a step back and try to read it from the point of view of someone that has no previous knowledge of anything about you. This could help you focus what you write about and make things more succinct, because most people won't read a wall of text either.

One other piece of advice is to cut down on what you're trying to do. Like you said, you have way too many projects going at once. Focus on a single project and stop worrying about trying to save the world. Dedicate 8 hours a day to the project and as you accomplish goals, move forward. Spend 1-2 hours a day exercising. And if you want to spend it on youtube videos, then use your 8 hours a day on that, but realistically that doesn't appear to be very promising.

I took a year off about 10 years ago and I had a single project I worked on 8 hours a day. Once I spent 3 weeks just trying to increase the accuracy of my OCR from 93% to 98%. It's dumb, but that's freedom to pursue things just to learn. Take advantage of your freedom by focusing on the long tail, you can go very very deep into areas where you normally wouldn't have the opportunity.

Very relatable to someone with way too many interests and too little time to pursue them all. Best of luck to both of us over the next six months!

I'm most impressed by how detailed the tracked time is- what app or method did you use and how did you stick to it?