Week-in-Review

Posted: Febuary 1, 2026

Reoccurring Commitments

Physical and Mental Health

Item	Completed?
Buy an electric toothbrush.	✅

You have no idea how long I’ve put this off lol.

Monetary Health

Intellectual Growth

Item	Completed?
Create a Goodreads account; add 10+ books	✅

We’ve added most of the books I’ve read since ~2022. Planing to add more metadata (e.g., date of complete, reviews) during the coming weeks.
Profile: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/198427468-levi-harris

Relationships

Item	Completed?
Contact 2+ friends/day; plan 1+ excursion/month.	❌
Contact 2+ family members/day.	❌
Visit 1+ new place in town/week.	✅
Meet 3+ strangers/month.	✅

Cultural Participation

Research

Item	Completed?
7x deep work sessions	❌

Religion

Item	Completed?
Attend services x1/month	❌

Service

Item	Completed?
Volunteer x1/month	❌

Work completed

Date	DOTW	Meetings	Work Completed
1-25-26	Sunday	None	Sick 🤒
1-26-26	Monday	None	[RSR] ICML submission
1-27-26	Tuesday	None	[RSR] ICML submission
1-28-26	Wednesday	None	[RSR] ICML submission
1-29-26	Thursday	0.75 HRS	[RSR] PIML-QPE project
1-30-26	Friday	None	[RSR] PIML-QPE project
1-31-26	Saturday	None	[RSR] PIML-QPE project [LOG] Chores; Labcorp shenanigans

Reflections

A key motivation for the week-in-review series is to keep ourselves honest. Looking back at the past couple months, it’s pretty clear what’s happened: we made a big push to finish my MS program, PhD applications, and NeurIPS workshop submission. After the smoke cleared, I let myself take a few weeks off the WIR, allowing old habits of general laziness/avoidance to creep back in. We’ll start this week’s reflection section by walking though uncompleted action items marked with an (❌) above.

Contact 2+ friends/day; plan 1+ excursion/month
- I believe one reason we didn’t achieve this goal is a lack of visual queues. During a full day of work, it’s easy to forget about other miscellaneous commitments one’s made. Going forward, I’ve added these goals and others to my Apple reminders app [1] as recurring, daily notifications.
Contact 2+ family members/day
- Added a daily reminder for this task.
x1 deep work sessions/day
- Two points here. First, I forgot that this was even a goal we set lol; added a reminder to my Apple reminders. Second, it may be worthwhile to offer some flexibility here. For example, on Wednesday, a colleague and I work feverish towards a deadline for the entire day. In some instances it may not be practical to do a deep work session every day; will consider adjusting this target from x7/week -> x6/week.
Attend services x1/month
- In this case, we simply failed to complete this goal due to avoidance. It may be helpful to break up the larger aim of “going to services” into a few sub-tasks (e.g., pick a place, pick a time, add the event to calendar, etc).
Volunteer x1/month
- Despite being interview several weeks ago, I am yet to be cleared to start volunteer work. Still, the onus is on me; there were certainty other opportunities to volunteer impromptu during the month of January. We’ve added this task to our reminders and will set Feb 15 as a cutoff point, at which time back up plans will be made.

Another miscellaneous note: we’re going to update the “40/52 math/AI conceptual blog posts” goal to x1/week. We would like to avoid a scenario where we put off this task for the first three months of the year.

Action Items

1. Complete all reoccurring commitments.
2. Draft an anonymized budget and accompanying notes; post to website.
3. Update: YIR with changes listed above.
4. Post a brief PIML-QPE project update to website.
5. (Monday) fix insurance kerfuffle; (Wednesday) do the thing

Until next week 👋

References

[1] https://www.icloud.com/reminders

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