Stats for Dec, 2017

Came back from a travel last month and just packed my stuff to travel again this month. Let’s see if it affected my performance.

Books

I was traveling this month, so as usual, I’m not reading/listening to audiobooks because I prefer to focus on the place I’m visiting. For this reason, I did not finish any book this month.

With that said, it is the first time I have 4 books on my reading list at the same time.

Elixir in Action is there for some time now. I really like Elixir and want to finish it as soon as I have the time. I’m also playing with Rust nowadays, so I’m reading Programming Rust as well.

The art of invisibility is the current audiobook and I hope to finish that as soon as I listen to all the Podcast episodes piled since last month.

Hiding in unnatural happiness is a book I received from a monk while in York. I’m not in a rush with this one but I want to finish soon, it’s really small.

Articles

As usual, I’m using that same export file from Pocket and the same script to calculate the amount of articles I read:

var uls=document.body.getElementsByTagName("ul");
for(var i=0; i<uls.length; i++) {
    console.log(uls[i].children.length)
}
1296
946

It means I have 1296 articles Unread and 946 articles Read. Comparing with my results from the last month (1255 unread and 931 read), I got around 1% more unread articles and 1% more read articles.

My unread count is not growing so fast anymore and that is a good thing.

Coding

Here are the charts from Wakatime since the last post.

Nothing new in this chart this month. The blank parts are related to the New Year and Christmas holidays.

markdown is usually the most used language because I write long texts in emacs before posting on Twist. After that, we have Python and Rust! 😀

Just removed bash from the reports and now we have Emacs as the only editor being used (it’s strange to not have any Vim this month) 🤔

Speaking

No presentations this month. 😀

I already reached all my goals for the year and was OK to not speak during December. I admit that I tried to speak while I was in York but could not find any local meetup to speak. :P

I had the chance to participate in two meetups of York developers but unfortunately, there were no slots to speak.

Completed tasks

This is the number of tasks completed on Todoist.

306 tasks completed this month (98 less than last month).

Many holidays and traveling in the last week of the year. I was totally off and did not check my tasks in these days, this is why I don’t have many tasks done.

Podcasts

Here is my Podcast Addict stats:

1 day and 3 hours of podcast time. I decided to not listen to any podcast while I was in York because I wanted to enjoy every single moment while walking in the streets. I usually use Podcasts as a way to escape from my boring routine in my working days but it was not boring in York. 😀

As usual, here is the list of Podcasts and their times:

Just remember that this is an “all-time list” and I’m tracking time instead of the episode which makes short podcasts to not appear as “most listened” ones. I listen to CBN podcasts almost every day, but they are just some minutes long.

Hours working

Here is the data from my time tracking software, Toggl:

The above chart is just for my freelance and the full-time job. The time doing freelance job was 0 hours this month, unfortunately.

We had 18 work days this month and I worked for 157 hours, which mean that I worked 13 hours more than I should. From these 13 hours, 1:23 hours was in a Sunday but it was in the airplane so it doesn’t count :P.

What I can take from this chart:

• Meetings are stable. I usually have around 4-5 hours of meetings a month. One useful weekly meeting of around 40 min and one 1-1 meeting. If necessary I have small meetings to fix certain problems.
• Hiring was really hard this month. Many interviews and candidates/test reviews.
• Shallow work is still consuming around 60% of my tasks (I’m not counting Hiring as shallow work, BTW)

This time I have a list of what I was doing with my Shallow work. Most of the time I can’t describe what was it but I know part of it is my lunch time.

One of the things I can spot as a time consumer here is the “Read/Reply Twist”. As we are committed to meaningful communication, I tend to read most of the messages that mention me somehow and some of them are big threads discussing some important problem. It makes sense to take some time but I would like to improve it. Maybe next month 😉

Now, let’s continue to my personal projects:

Yeah, that’s right, no personal projects this month. 😞 It’s kinda sad that I had not personal projects or freelancing this month. I really like to spend some time working on different projects.

I think it happened for a reason: I was in a different city/country and invested all my time in my full-time job and walking around the city. I will try to keep that in my mind. 😀

Here is my data from RescueTime:

As expected, I don’t have enough data because I changed my browser for Firefox Quantum and forgot to install the rescuetime extension. Shame on me. 😞

Physical activity

I’m using my Mi band data to calculate my average steps:

An average of 10k steps is good for me. It was better than November but worse than October, which was expected.

And these are my steps each day:

My max distance was 17.3km walking in one day (I was lucky to get the tooltip to work when taking the screenshot):

Here is my sleep data for this month:

As we can see in the chart, I had more minutes of average sleeping this month (7h38m for the last month) but less deep sleeping (last month was 1h44) 😢

Considering the whole user base from mi-band:

I’m below average regarding sleeping earlier and on average regarding deep sleeping.

TV Shows

According to tvshowtime I watched 1 episode this month:

It was probably Billions when I got home. 😀

I spent 1 hour of my life watching TV shows this month. Not bad 😉.

Words written and errors

I’m using Grammarly to improve my English and track the number of words and errors when I’m writing. Unfortunately, they only send weekly emails, but I will try to keep this metric for a while.

Here are my stats for this month:

• 93129 words written (71062 last month)
• 1380 corrections made (1091 last month)
• 11979 unique words (17429 last month)

I wrote a lot this month. Almost 20k words more than last month but I also made more mistakes, almost in the same proportions. My vocabulary did not increase in the same rhythm though.

Locations

New cities were added this month:

The missing city is Durham.

Here are the general data:

It’s really weird that some countries are disappearing. 😞 Last month I had 7 countries but now I have 6 again. I used Matador network to track the countries and I visited 8 countries, not 6.

Not so useful, but here is the time spent on vehicles:

It’s probably the time spent in taxis from home to the airport and also related to the trip we made in North Yorkshire by van.

This trip removed 12k km from my distance to the moon. 👍

Expenses

My expenses for this month:

This chart represents all my income for this month. Yes! You read that right, I finally received some freaking money after six months! 🎉

This money is still not related to my current job but I already received my payment, just need to go through the bureaucracy to be able to pay the taxes and receive that in my personal account.

I will definitely write about this whole process soon.

This month is finally back to normal! My total savings increased by 1.9% and now I have 75.10% of my goal.

Next month will be huge!

Time to write this blog post

Some people are asking me about how much time it takes to collect all the data and write the blog post, so I decided to add this metric

It took 3 hours and 02 minutes to write this post

Conclusion

I’m back to Brazil after one full month working from York. I have to say that it was really great to work from a different place for some time.

This was the last month of the year so expect a yearly review from me soon. 😀