Hello, friends. Week 2 is upon us, slightly late¹.

Last week’s goals were:

• spend a lot of time walking around - I didn’t really do this. One needs to be in the right state of mind for walking, and I was somehow uncompelled. Unfortunate, but acceptable.

• start reading a lot more (~15 hours maybe?) - I estimate more like 10, but I do think it’s possible to consume too much Infinite Jest, so I’m considering this a success.

• bake something fun - Nearly a failure, but a highly fortuitous visit from my brother yesterday resulted in us baking cookies². It was fun (therefore a success), though the cookies had some technical issues.

• take a bit of a gander at the job market more generally to see if there are things I feel excited about - Giving myself 50% on this one. I took a bit of a look, even applied to a job or maybe two that I don’t really want, but didn’t really do the sort of comprehensive search that might have been useful.

• make progress coming up with good projects to do. List many options. Maybe the goal for the end of the week will be to have concretely committed to a first project. - I didn’t list very many projects, but luckily, due to the infinite wisdom of casey-from-one-week-ago, I did not have to, for I have identified two useful projects to undertake (concretely committed to them, one might say).

• write at least a brief retrospective on the Alliance. mainly regarding my relationship to it - I did not do this, and totally forgot that I said I would. Perhaps I should be somehow familiarizing myself with my list of goals throughout the week…

• prepare for a waymo technical interview - They ended up rejecting me, but I expended some substantial effort in preparing before this happened, so basically a success.

Overall casey goodness score: 4.5/7.

Qualitatively, I felt pretty ineffective for most of the last week, I was somehow feeling pretty bad/stressed about my options and capacities for doing things, and this made it hard to work on anything effectively. I’m hopeful that I’ve been feeling substantively better for the last few days and will be able to embark towards great productivity and shareholder value with increased vigor.

My two areas of focus for the next week:

• My dearest brother has proposed we follow this course together, so I hope to make substantial progress on, if not finish, the first assignment³ (I have 2 weeks really if we follow the real course timing). I have very minimally started, and it has been pretty fun. Also it is probably good to understand how the world works.

• The last day or two I have been working on a voice-controlled game to play around with llm interaction stuff, and hope to have a minimal playable prototype of some form by one week from now.