02 Jun 2025

🧠 Monthly Review

I. Alignment Check 🔍

Am I becoming who I said I want to become?

• 🔥 Did I live my 7 commandments? (Rate 1–5)
  • 3
• 🧭 Did my actions align with my long-term goals?
  • Only few did (like math, IMT, IP speedrun, building better workflow)
• 💀 What felt pointless or misaligned?
  • the thinkpad slump week was super misaligned

II. Wins + Progress 📈

Proof I’m not rotting.

• Top 3 tangible wins
  • the IP Speedrun
  • made 3 bombastic videos that I LIKE.
  • went without porn (or the need of it) for the whole month. I am free.
• Systems I improved or debugged
  • The whiteboard kanban/quote/day-rating
  • bedtime routine & shared journaling
  • minimal laptop workflow and linking between two
  • avoiding slacking off and information overload
• Projects I advanced (+ status)
  • IMT
    • all done except the evaluation part, which should be pretty cool and done in one day.
  • Math Machine
    • I got through more problems, but I need to get better at it man.
  • Ultralearning -> should start it.
  • deep reflections and mid-year review:
    • i searched who i wanted to be
    • my flaws and how to fix them
    • and decided where I want to go (CMI, I am coming.)
• 1 thing I handled like a badass
  • making videos~

III. Fails + Feedback 💣

Where I sucked. What I’ll do about it.

• Top 3 fails
  • Couldn’t finish math part 1.
    • because of the thinkpad slump week, everything was fucked.
  • My hackathon (w/ Satvik) went to shit.
    • I had weak theory, plus late night.
  • my sleep routine was (and still is) fucked. but i am solving that.
• What broke down (system-wise)?
  • I was unable to get back on track after the slump week.
  • Timings everyday and slacking off -> solved later
  • couldn’t study anything school related.
• Root causes (internal + external)
  • Internally, I didn’t want to go beyond comfort zone.
    • but no, I am become Ubermensch, the destroyer of mediocrity.
  • Externally, the whole house was a bit scattered; everyone was busy and we had guests around.
• 1 behavior I want to extinguish
  • Sleep early. Don’t slack off.

IV. Metrics Dashboard 📊

Quick pulse-check. Replace/add your own.

Area	Target	Actual	Notes
Deep work hours	65	~115	damn. I didn’t know I could do that. That means I did around ~28 hours every week. but that’s rather low?
Workouts/week	16	14	I slacked off a lot. Bad bad.
Post-dinner slacking	no	yes	how can i be binary about this?
Anki reviews everyday	yes	yes…	left out a couple of day.s
Content output (b+n+p+v)	4+1+1+2	2+1+0+3.5	also, the ip speedrun.
YouTube streams	18-19	21	good.
Forecasts made	50		but how do i quantify thissssss
School Chapters (PCM)	P-2, C-2, M-3	0,.0, 2.5	it was completely bruh

V. Forecast 🔮

What’s coming? What needs to be true by month-end?

• Key focus areas for next month
  • math grind for CMI (and pleasure)
  • getting upto speed with phy/chem via Ultralearning
  • new routine and experimentation to accomodate grind.
• One scary thing I’ll face
  • Attempting an IOQM paper…
• 1–3 bold bets I’m placing
  • I will get a 2 digit mark on an IOQM paper
  • Become Ultralearning god. ASSIMILATE it.
  • I will finish making the Anki-Python project.
• Risks / traps to avoid
  • avoid burning out
  • go to school 2x a week to maintain complacency and live guilt-free.
  • don’t depend on your “mood”, or else you’d get fucked. discipline is key.
• If I only did ONE thing next month, it should be:
  • math grind.

VI. System Check 🔧

Are my tools, habits, and loops still fit for war?

• What needs upgrading? (e.g. Anki deck, Obsidian, workflow)
  • the whole daily / weekly routine.
    • imma need to wake up early, find time to grind.
    • be more systematic towards things.
    • do only the most IMPORTANT things.
  • my studying workflow
    • so far, i have been learning things from visuals and lessons from Chad, etc.
    • but now, it’s time ultralearn this thing.
    • I will focus mostly on testing, not on making flowery obsidian notes, or studying too much from passive lessons.
    • I’ll grind more on problems than on learning theory.
    • I will optimise for maximum knowledge gained over least amount of time.
  • my pursuing workflow?
    • i have been pursuing anything and everything for the last how many months.
    • but it is time to become the essentialist polymath instead.
    • i can’t do it all. but i can do them one by one, provided they have good ROI.
    • 3x mornings and one saturday COMPLETELY dedicated for that.
• Am I reviewing the right things at the right intervals?
  • I need to ankify these goals as well, to remember what i stand for and what is necessary.
• What habits are decaying?
  • I think socialising has been down for a while.
• What routines need pruning or revamping?
  • oh the sleep routine needs a big fucking revamp.
  • reviewing and consolidating routine?
  • I need to improve my video editing routine; make it faster.

VII. Notes to Future Me 💌

Write a short note to the version of you reading this next month.

Hey, big guy. I am expecting a lot for you. You may have not wanted that, but we both know that you really do. ==If you feel that you’re struggling, know that that is exactly what you were setting out to do.==

You’re doing great. Never settle now. Keep on doing what you are doing.

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Version: v1.0 – Updated: [[May 1, 2025]]