I have no words.
… Okay, I have some words.
First, an overview. My software repackaging contract finally ended on May 31, after 3 years and 5 months. I sacked murk and replaced it with Cacophony. I significantly advanced the whole of Beard (most notably, focus handling). I moved AM‽'s linear operators out-of-class and restructured the hash interface. I went through two command schemes in Hord, developed an initial table storage model, and reworked the fundamental object structure. I broke Clang at least three times and found an error in libc++. I started togo on June 22. I playtested the Linux port of Antichamber and reported two bugs in the Linux version of Among the Sleep.
I lived with my brother in Berkeley, California from August 2 to October 31 (90 days). While there, I made Onomo for Ludum Dare 30, had a battery fully discharge into my arm over 24 hours, attended GameDevDrinkUp in San Francisco (twice), attended QGCon, and failed to acquire employment. I observed that several factors, especially environment and social space, are dwarfed by discipline and motivation when it comes to doing. My discipline and motivation were largely not positively affected by the (little) improvement of these factors, and my continued lack of them was as ruinous as ever. There is undoubtedly a strength in harmony between environmental & contextual factors and discipline & motivation, and I've found that the positive presence of one side does not necessarily bring about the same to the other.
Back in Ohio, nothing of much note occurred beyond my attendance to the Texts and Contexts Conference in Columbus. Oh, and a copious display of privilege during the holidays. We are afforded too much.
That may seem like a lot, but it still doesn't feel like it, even when I write it all out. I was distraught between the high points at best, and rarely determined enough to do anything consistently.
As for the interests jotted out in my post for 2013, none have been thoroughly advanced. I've done very little with SuperCollider, and I didn't learn any music theory. I forget the exact causes, but it's most likely from the lack of motivation and, in the latter case, because I had just begun developing togo.
I feel most of the year was wasted, despite having spent the largest amount of time on projects since 2011. My greatest difficulty is applying what I know about… well, everything. Design and execution, primarily. Premature optimization, eternal black holes of design, unbridled habits. I know these mechanics on a deep level, but I don't utilize the knowledge to prevent them. At least I now know (quantitatively and practically) where the wasteful hot spots are in the gamut of my behaviors.
My immediate goals for 2015 are: 1. eradicating waste, 2. improving discipline (especially as motivation has proven unreliable), and 3. developing a game. I will construct a weekly schedule and test variations as I push Onsang to the point of reasonable usability. By either that point or the end of January, I will allot time towards togo and a game.
With all of this in hand, the only deciding factor in my success is willpower. Given my abusive, hyper-exhaustive approach to design, the best motto for me is Just Do It™.
So I will.
Data
I tracked a total of 8753.3 hours in 2014 with 16177 entries (1827 greater than in 2013). 6.7 hours were (probably) gobbled up by micro discontinuities and weird software. On a bright note, that's only half the time lost during 2013!
One speculative lesson in my 3 years, 9 months, and 28 days of time tracking is that the mere amount of time you sleep has no effect on productivity (provided it is at least healthy). Proper segmenting does, for sure, but there are tougher nuts to crack.
Here're some numbers:1
Existence (selection of ~3797.1 hours):
2816.7 hours: sleeping. Segments (422, trimmed): mean: 6.60, min: 1.67, median: 6.91, max: 12.48. Monthly: mean: 234.72, min: 209.30 (April, surprisingly), median: 235.25 (November, July), max: 278.20 (January). Compare to: 2831.9 (+15.2) in 2013 (mean: 235.99 (+1.27), min: 213.50 (+4.2, February), median: 236.75 (+1.5, July, September), max: 251.60 (–26.6, December)), and 2782.5 (–34.2) in 2012.
~395.6 hours: eating. Segments: primary: 265.9 (1: 136.4, 2: 108.0, 3: 21.5); auxiliary: 25.6 (1: 22.8, 2: 2.8); misc: 86.6 (munching (including unsegmented): 39.8, snack: 28.4, liquid: 18.4). Compare to: ~370.0 (–25.6) in 2013.
204.8 hours: preparing food. Compare to: 253.6 (+48.8) in 2013.
78.0 hours: cooking. Compare to: 19.1 (–58.9) in 2013.
Study, projects, and work (1354.6 hours):
1106.5 hours: projects (~1287 public commits). Segments: programming: 1034.1 (tagged: 1045.0, inefficient: 65.8, severely inefficient: 20.1), design: 65.9 (inefficient: 3.0), and misc: 6.6. Compare to: 876.6 (–229.9, 616 public commits) in 2013, 823.1 (–283.4) in 2012, and ~1149.5 (+43.0; mixed segments, inaccurate) in 2011.
343.5 hours: working (4m17d span). Compare to: 591.6 (+248.1) in 2013, 239.4 (–104.1) in 2012, and 140.9 (–202.6) in 2011.
81.8 hours: writing. Compare to: ~121.3 (+39.5) in 2013.
74.2 hours: learning (non-directed, mostly media and filler). Compare to: 304.9 of coursework in 2013.
21.9 hours: maintaining/building websites (inefficient: 2.9).
21.7 hours: playtesting/QA. Compare to: 48.4 (+26.7) in 2013.
13.6 hours: drawing. Compare to: ~19.6 (+6.0) in 2013.
12.8 hours: voice acting.
8.8 hours: sound crafting. Compare to: 0.8 (–8.0) in 2013.
Entertainment (901.6 hours):
470.4 hours: watching media; anime: 257.9, talks & miscellaneous: 121.7, western television: 41.4, films: 29.4, web series: ~20.0. Compare anime/television to: 224.3/43.9 (–33.6/+2.5) in 2013, and 255.8/40.0 (–2.1/–1.4) in 2012.
214.3 hours: gaming. Compare to: 189.1 (–25.2) in 2013 and 537.3 (+323.0) in 2012.
151.8 hours: reading. Categories: misc: 96.8, books & writings: 26.8, comics: 16.1, manga: 12.1.
65.1 hours: listening to podcasts. Compare to: 81.7 (+16.6) in 2013 and ~244.7 (+179.6) in 2012.
Miscellaneous:
1078.0 hours: netloop. Tags: twitter: 643.4, reddit: 378.0, feedread: 11.9. Compare to: 658.9/208.9/425.2/91.7 (–419.1/–434.5/+47.2/+79.8) in 2013.
973.8 hours: bork (i.e., nothing in particular). Compare to: 1313.5 (+339.7) in 2013.
918.8 hours: tagged IRC (overlap). Compare to: 941.4 (+22.6) in 2013.
59.7 hours: in Windows, 50.5 of which were for gaming. This doesn't include work, which was almost entirely under Windows in 2014. Compare to: 143.4/102.3 (+83.7/+51.8) in 2013.
33015 scrobbles. Compare to: 36350 (+3335) in 2013, 23534 (–9481) in 2012, 25030 (–7985) in 2011, and 31303 (–1712) in 2010.
Top five albums (8540, 25.86%): FEZ (3327, 10.07%), one (1758, 5.32%), Ghost in the Shell: ARISE (1653, 5.00%), Assassin's Creed: Revelations (912, 2.76%), and Tamako Market (890, 2.69%).
Top five artists (10282, 31.14%): Disasterpeace (3375, 10.22%), Jesper Kyd (1836, 5.56%), C418 (1781, 5.39%), Cornelius (1653, 5.00%), Balún (1637, 4.95%).
Buys:
Games: 32, only 15 of which I have played. Compare to: 35.5/16 (+3.5/+1) in 2013.
Game bundles: 5. Humble: Amnesia Fortnight 2014, Sid Meier, Indie #11, RPG Maker (weekly), Eye Candy (weekly). Compare to: 8 (+3) in 2013.
Kickstarters backed: 5. Categories: animation (1), art (1), comic (1), game (1), podcast (1). Compare to 17 (+12) in 2013.
Music: 22 albums, 1 EP. Compare to: 5 albums (–17), 1 EP, and 1 single in 2013.
Books: 0. Compare to: 7 in 2013.
Hardware: wired X360 controller, Sager NP8278-S laptop.
Lifewear: 5.11 Rush 24 backpack, SE Bikes Draft Lite bike.
Etc.: pulse oximeter, new model of digital thermometer, long socks, hair brush, hair ties.
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