Today’s Todos

  • Sync with cofounder + deploy new artifacts
  • Launch evaluation and metric tracking system (update PRs + merge) — in progress
  • Create loan repayment spreadsheet
  • Validate prod and staging environment flows end-to-end
  • Merge remaining 3 Dependabot PRs
  • Swim workout
  • Fix Rust builds PR (high priority — CI/CD cost + errors)
  • Cut redundant CI/CD builds PR (high priority — cost reduction)

Daily Habits

  • Post one Substack note
  • Record 5 note ideas
  • Write for one hour (500 words)
  • Read for 30 minutes
  • 10 min yoga (stretch)

Quick Log

Weight:: (missed — 3rd day, put scale in your path) Sleep:: Sleep_Quality:: Mood_AM:: Mood_PM:: Energy:: Focus::

Training Output

Swim — 800m (double the 400m protocol)

  • 7x100m + 2x50m
  • Avg pace: ~1:00/50m
  • No HR (forgot Garmin)

Fuel Log

Breakfast — Yogurt Bowl:

  • 200g Wegmans nonfat Greek yogurt
  • 1/3 cup granola
  • 20 blueberries
  • 10g honey

Snack:

  • 1 Barbella protein bar

Fruit:

  • 2 clementines
  • 1 very large honeycrisp apple

Dinner — Pasta:

  • 1 serving organic penne
  • 1/2 lb ground beef in tomato sauce
  • 1/4 cup shaved parmesan

Snacks/Other:

  • 1 large coffee toffee cookie (~400 cal)
  • 5/8 Whole Foods Mediterranean pizza
  • 10 tortilla chips
  • 2 slices Kirkland deli turkey
  • 1 glass orange juice
  • 1 glass whole milk

calories_so_far:: ~3420 protein_so_far:: ~160g fiber_so_far:: ~27g

What Went Well

  • 5/5 daily habits — first clean sweep all week
  • Swam 800m (doubled protocol)
  • Deployed artifacts with cofounder
  • Fixed prod deployment issues (secrets, consolidated workflows)
  • Good energy and momentum in the evening

What Went Poorly

  • Missed weigh-in (3rd day in a row)
  • Protein missed target (160g vs 180g)
  • Calories over again (~3,420)
  • Got sidetracked by random tasks at home — didn’t finish prod changes after leaving cafe at 3pm
  • Did not hit 9 hours of startup work — need better project management and feature prioritization

Top 3 for Tomorrow

  1. Morning review: go over daily tasks, kill zombie tasks, break work into small units
  2. Run dry run of polymarket bot + test image/video generator pipeline (2 hour block)
  3. Validate prod and staging environment flows end-to-end