[PhD planning]

[kaberett]

• Julie seems to be happy with the Anatahan samples, so I don't need to dissolve dupes.

More dissolutions
French RM (3): UB-N, AN-G, AL-I
G/H/T (6 ?x2): H28, H38, H64, G6, G117, T557
Marquesas dupes (2): UH53, TH14 (maybe one more each of FH01, TH13 too)
Chauvel new, no lead (8 ?x2): HV64, HV76, TH4, TH5, TH8, TH31, TH39, 108B
Chauvel new, lead (11 ?x2): RRT-032, RRT-037, 74-386, 74-390, 74-396, TBA09, K109, 5434, 5436, 5433, 5435
(IODP crap: 3)

Total: 30, i.e. 3x rounds of chemistry, huh, is that all? (Ignoring IODP stuff and dupes (except Marquesas definite dupes)

Okay, arbitrary subdivision:

Round 1: RRT-032, RRT-037, 74-386, 74-390, 74-396, TBA09, K109, 5433, 5434, 5435

Round 2: 5436, UB-N, AN-G, AL-I, H28, H38, H64, G6, G117, T557

Round 3: HV64, HV76, TH4, TH5, TH8, TH31, TH39, 108B, UH53, TH14

NB need to talk to Julie + Mark about sensible ways to keep elutions from ESPECIALLY round 3 but also if poss round 1.

Not intending to start next week - Too Many Of Thing - but might be able to get done before term starts, depending. HURRAH.

Comments

[kaberett]

(the thing about todo/tada lists is, of course, that I always look like I'm getting heaps done because having worked out what needs doing it is much easier to mechanically work my way through the things than it is to decide to do anything else; I DID reward myself with ~30 minutes of gaming partway through after a particularly unpleasant task, and again made sure I stopped at a good discrete stopping point. I still haven't worked out how to make tasks small and specific and rote enough to apply this approach at work to the "thinking" bits rather than the experimental bits; I suspect that's because it can't be done, and that's why I find it hard... or at least it can't be done in quite the same way, and needs an extra layer of abstraction.)

[jesse_the_k]

It's even possible that the effort spent on developing the final layer of distraction is a net energy loss. The time/energy saved from rationalizing other tasks is best spent on adequate space to explore edges with randomness, flow and invention.

[ex_we935]

The 'to-do'/'ta-da' lists feel a bit like unlocking achievements, but that mindset is a bit more difficult when dealing with complex data-sets and analyses as opposed to household tasks like doing the washing-up or making dinner.

~K.

[swaldman]

it appears that you are planning to do lots of letters and numbers. For science. :-P

Personally (and obv YMMV) I find that "thinking" tasks divide into two: the methodical ("plan want steps I must go through to validate this model"), which I can break down and plan like nearly any task, and the creative ("why is this result not as expected? What's the mechanism here? ") which doesn't work that way.

[kaberett]

Some of my ongoing issue is settling down to reading...

[davidgillon]

I suspect experimental work is inherently discrete, thinking is inherently continuous. One gives you natural stopping places, the other not so much....