Tag Archive: optimization

I Calendar Block Nearly Every Minute of My Day…and I Meet My Targets

A Sunday Hyper-Calendar Example

Why I Started Hyper-Calendaring

The most precious individual resources we have are time and health.  While much of health is genetic and/or hereditary as well as environmental, the rest of it is entirely dependent upon what we do with our time.  I was hit upside the head with this when I had my health challenges last year.  The only actionable thing I could do per my doctors was to exercise … Read more


Anita Book II: The First Chapter is Written

At 5:28 am on Thursday June 6th, 2024, I finally did it.  I finally finished something I started.  It may have taken me 4+ years, but I did it.  And I did it in a way that I am confident will stick.

In 2020, which for me is far more marked by the sudden loss of my mother that January from a suspected heart attack than the Coronavirus pandemic, I … Read more


To Unify or Diverge? That is the question.

I fancy myself as having a “Jr Developer” badge.  It’s not a leap – I have a Master’s in Computer Science from a totally-challenging-and-enlightening-but-not-particularly-practical program (Stanford Univ) and I’ve spent the better part of the past 15 years in pretty technical environments leading product, marketing and/or analytics.  And I taught (and loved!) Databases & Algorithms during my graduate school years, to boot.

So it’s a surprise to me when problems … Read more