🧠 Monthly Review For April, 2025
I. Alignment Check 🔍
Am I becoming who I said I want to become?
- 🔥 Did I live my 7 commandments? (Rate 1–5)
- 2/5
- 🧭 Did my actions align with my long-term goals?
- yes, I made better systems, focused on school, as well as my own studies. but I could have done better in my relos.
- 💀 What felt pointless or misaligned?
- i slacked off and didn’t unleash my own potential. I am capable of doing better, but I didn’t (for example, bullshitting about not being able to study after school, etc.)
- going to school for the first couple of days.
II. Wins + Progress 📈
Proof I’m not rotting.
- Top 3 tangible wins
- [[The War of Becoming]]
- Better schedule and moving on to 6h focus hours
- New vault system and revamp
- Systems I improved or debugged
- My obsidian vault
- Arch setup (optimised for focus and robustness.)
- review and reflection process
- progressive overload in studies
- my fitness program
- Projects I advanced (+ status)
- project math machine: started updating difficulty
- project quit porn: read ~35% of EasyPeasy
- project no slacking off: started destroying comfort
- 1 thing I handled like a badass
- oh yeah, planning shit to the core.
III. Fails + Feedback 💣
Where I sucked. What I’ll do about it.
- Top 3 fails
- My post-dinner “cooldown” time went to shit
- I was not well rested
- I was super bad at my relos
- What broke down (system-wise)?
- sometimes my anki would break and make things hard for me. it’s fixed though
- my school started threatening, and I had to go to school, devise a plan for tracking attendance and so on. Time was wasted.
- I couldn’t study as efficiently as I thought I would.
- Root causes (internal + external)
- There were too many things to do. I started prioritising very late
- I felt that everything was going too fast, started focusing more on my work than my relos.
- things went to eat shit after that.
- it was pretty bad.
- I don’t want that to happen now.
- I can’t waste my precious time.
- 1 behavior I want to extinguish
- I want to finally stop taking shit and do a proper cooldown after dinner.
IV. Metrics Dashboard 📊
Quick pulse-check. Replace/add your own.
| Area | Target | Actual | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deep work hours | 55 | need to track as a tag (deep work) | |
| Workouts/week | 4 | 4 | nice! |
| Post-dinner slacking | off | no off | need to counter this |
| Anki reviews | every day | ~15 days | |
| Content output (b+n+p+v) | 3+1+1+0 | gotta be less perfect. embrace imperfection | |
| YouTube streams | everyday exc sat, emergency | ? | |
| Forecasts made | |||
| School Chapters | C-2, P-2, M-2 | C-1.5, P-2, M-2.5 | gotta track better. |
V. Forecast 🔮
What’s coming? What needs to be true by month-end?
- Key focus areas for next month
- Developing problem-solving intuition and tackling difficult problems; math journalling
- finish IMT, for fucks sake.
- digging through syllabus
- One scary thing I’ll face
- 1–3 bold bets I’m placing
- Risks / traps to avoid
- Don’t get trapped in [[Planning Fallacy]]. Don’t pick too many things.
- Please prioritise your fucking stuff.
- always “hell yes, or nah” never in the middle.
- If I only did ONE thing next month, it should be:
- math, math and MATH.
VI. System Check 🔧
Are my tools, habits, and loops still fit for war?
- math, math and MATH.
- What needs upgrading? (e.g. Anki deck, Obsidian, workflow)
- Obsidian workflow to make the math journal.
- Anki deck / evergreen page to keep track of my beliefs.
- I need my desk setup and workflow to be more minimal. I hope that will be solved when my thinkpad comes around.
- I should add more memories in my anki
- also, read the fucking articles. ????
- I need to fix my post-dinner and pre-lunch routine.
- reading in the latter
- and disconnecting in the first.
- Am I reviewing the right things at the right intervals?
- Probably not my beliefs. I need to do them more
- What habits are decaying?
- my reading habits, damn.
- my spending-time-with-my-friends habits. I miss them.
- my writing habits, wow.
- What routines need pruning or revamping?
- not now, i think.
- oh yeah, i gotta fix my routines with gf. they must be non-negotiable.
VII. Notes to Future Me 💌
Write a short note to the version of you reading this next month.
(old me wasn’t ready for it.)