Did a full Pieter-style workday, 2 coffees, 2 caffeine pills, >300mg caffeine, ~9hrs, now going for a massage b/c my back hurts and I feel exhausted. IDK if I could keep this pace up for a year or more.

Wasn't feeling productive yesterday b/c I hadn't gotten enough sleep the night before, so I stopped trying to work after 1 coffee and 1 Caffeine+, told myself to focus on getting to bed on time, slept well last night (~9-10hrs), and I'm feeling good today. Just took a Caffeine+ to start the day and set my timer for 90 mins until I'll have a coffee or tea.

Worked 3hrs on #rhymecraft today, the most I've done in a very long time. If I could just maintain this work ethic for a few years I could get rich.

Using a countdown timer to take caffeine at a specific rate has turned out to be an absolutely huge productivity boost. I set an alarm for 1.5hrs past a 50mg Caffeine+ pill, 3hrs for a ~100mg cup of coffee. W/o the timer I delay re-upping and slip into Twittering/YouTubing for hours without noticing it.

Slept surprisingly well considering how much caffeine I had yesterday, I think going to the gym and sticking to my normal sleep hour helped. I did 1 coffee, then 1 Caffeine+ pill, then 1 coffee, with no second Caffeine+ pill.

Refined my caffeine regimen: 1 coffee, set an alarm for 3hrs, then 1 Caffeine+ pill, set an alarm for 90 mins, then a second coffee, then 3hrs later a final Caffeine+

Went to a cafe I've never been to before and took a 220mg caffeine pill to power through my procrastination to start working on #rhymecraft again

Only got ~6hrs of sleep, so try taking 120mg of lycopene...emailed back the WorkTime rep b/c their software isn't tracking any activity, it's crazy for it to be so broken in such a basic way...ask on Upwork forums if identity verification ever needs to happen again...created a Jira board for managing studying system design...started a pastebin system for rehearsing basic system design patterns daily b/c that's been working well for studying DSAs...feeling anxiety today, presumably from all the caffeine yesterday, so I'm going to take some Caffeine+ capsules to see if the extra vitamins in it makes the anxiety go away...run the Algolia HN API request that I found in the hnjobs repo in Postman as a first step towards grabbing those jobs myself...spent 30 minutes feeling anxious about what the next step should be, thinking I should set up the backend pulling jobs, before changing my mind and deciding I want to be able to use a frontend UI to connect my email address and then press a button to have the backend send an Gmail email for me...

Only got ~5hrs sleep after all the caffeine I had yesterday.

Tried melatonin for the first time last night after drinking a lot of cocoa and feeling like I wasn't going to feel tired soon, it was amazing how well it worked, but I woke up after ~4-5hrs, so I played some PC games, ate some food, then fell asleep for another ~4hrs. Very strange.

🔨 intended to spend 2 hours on day job + clients and then the rest on side projects. 7 hours of day job later I called it an afternoon #mylife

Worked on a first draft of a 1-page "how to hire and manage remote workers" PDF that I want to start sending along with my resume and possibly also use as a marketing thing for my Wailes & Company remote work management consultancy idea...drank a double espresso ~4-5hrs before my expected bedtime, I hope I don't regret this...emailed another YouTuber but w/ a slightly different email approach...continuing to learn how to use Cursor, resolved a deploy.yml error by signing into GitHub after some Googling to understand what was going on...spent a while breaking up my backend code into sub-app directories as a way of setting the stage to work on multiple app ideas at the same time, and also to continue to build familiarity with Go since I'm still very new to it...spending the time after the caffeine high has kind of worn off (3hrs post-double-espresso) just thinking about what I should work on next...decide on some next small steps for tomorrow: 1) be able to query the Algolia HN API and get back the list of HN jobs, 2) set up a new db schema for the jobs app, 3) figure out how to best use ChatGPT to analyze the different job posts (individual queries vs. some kind of batch request).

start hour 30 of work - definitely going to sleep soon 😴 #freelance

Finished 2 hour #deepfocus session at 9-5

Finished 2 hour #deepfocus session at 9-5

decide that aiming for 8h of productivity every day (Mon-Sun) is not too much to ask, and actually sustainable long-term, but realize that only when I go above 8h/day exhaustion + frustration starts to kick in #laif

Found a potentially-superior caffeine regimen of 1 coffee upon waking, then (some hours later) a 50mg "Caffeine+" pill that has additional vitamins and amino acids that caffeine apparently drains from the body (L-Theanine, L-Tyrosine, and B-vitamins), then a second coffee later.

drink another 6 espressos to stay awake and keep pumping out work #life

- [x] 1st coffee (w/ 100mg L-theanine): 🕒06:40 #life - [x] Stop Circadian Rhythm TRF fast 🕒10:46 (14h 21m streak: 89) #life - [x] Amino acids: 🕒12:15 (1/2, streak: 7) #life - [x] 3g of creatine: 🕒15:40 (2/2, streak: 7) #life - [x] 2nd coffee: 🕒09:00 #life - [x] Amino acids: 🕒20:30 (2/2, streak: 6) #life - [x] Start Circadian Rhythm TRF fast 🕒20:33 #life

- [x] 1st coffee (w/ 100mg L-theanine): 🕒07:00 #life - [x] Stop Circadian Rhythm TRF fast 🕒12:30 (15h 57m streak: 90) #life - [x] Amino acids: 🕒15:24 (1/2, streak: 8) #life - [x] 2nd coffee: 🕒10:44 #life - [x] 3g of creatine: 🕒17:50 (2/2, streak: 8) #life - [x] Amino acids: 🕒20:30 (2/2, streak: 7) #life - [x] Start Circadian Rhythm TRF fast 🕒 20:30 #life