Every hour of 2020 Reviewed
Tags: Everhour, Quantified Self, Time Management, Personal Development, Productivity

Every hour of 2020 Reviewed

TL;DR:

⛄️ Jan-March: Mainly books, friends, and holiday in AUS 🌸April-June: Started properly coding, made a tablet for my granny, and made my custom TT bike ☀️July-September: Decided to leave London, did my Ironman 🍁 October-December: Cornwall, Everyhour and YC Future Founder’s course

From my 2019 Review:

From this review I have some goals for 2020:

* Actually finish some projects — to do this make most of them small and finish-able and celebrate finishing them

* More family time — at least double 2019

* Less YouTube and Reddit please.

* Keep the exercise up and probably do more (already paid for an Olympic and Ironman 70.3)!

https://medium.com/everyhour/tracking-each-day-each-night-my-2019-reviewed-c0dff81f9377

I did much better this year.

I finished 9 books and write ups. I finished three projects (custom tt bike: 60 hours, granny’s tablet: 12, and holiday video: 16 hours) and have spent a good time working on others which are ongoing.

I did start 6 projects with a collective 112 hours that have had no output though. So there is still work to be done.

From this review I have some goals for 2021:

do less unproductive/unhappy hours of work and much more work I do enjoy

more work I do enjoy spend more time with friends and family (since covid and going nomad will still be a challenge)

sustain exercise — this year after the Ironman I dropped off unlike any previous year. I can’t stay in this habit

Reddit is clearly a staple of my day, but I also see a trend of time doing nothing (playing phone games usually) growing. I don’t want this.

Execute all started projects — have something to share about them, even if they don’t go anywhere they should have outputs else they are totally wasted.

My year timeline:

⛄️ Jan-March:

The major thing from here was our holiday to Australia (Sydney, Melbourne and Perth). On the flight out the major threat was the fires going on there, on the way back the fear was COVID. Highlights we seeing friends in Sydney, running on the f1 track, and Rottnest Island.

I also spot every weekend had a good amount of time with friends — what a time!

I started(and finished) a few projects as per:

I finished the AUS holiday video.

Created some UI suggestions for a friend who made a low power heart rate monitor that pairs with phones called VCG Veva. [left]

The Courage to be Disliked — a philosophy that is supposed to make you happy. Published on Mar 22.

Simplified: Hooked by Nir Eyal — A psychology book that focuses on how to build products. Published on Mar 15.

Simplify: The Happy Manifesto — Henry Stewart — Most work culture is crap and hence the only solution is to become a freelancer, entrepreneur or start up, right? Published on Feb 8.

🌸April-June:

This saw the focus of triathlon training and the start of projects increasing in time as Covid restrictions took place. There also was a strong drop in my interest and joy with work now that we were totally remote.

This also was the start of everyhour — or at least learning how to make a site that would become everyhour.

I completed 9 write ups mostly about coding here. The one i am most proud of though is not about coding, it is about connecting the unconnected:

I also finally got around to building and customising my TT road bike which I am so happy with! See more here.