Weekly Overview#
Mixed week. Started off slow due to travel, but picked up pace towards the end of the week. November is here, let’s make it a productive month!
27th October 2025 - Monday#
Summary#
Travel day. And some planning for the week ahead.
Reflections and Remarks
- Nothing to report, spent the day travelling back home. Getting back into the groove tomorrow.
- Starting a new experiment on habit tracking and productivity from tomorrow:
- Objective: To understand what works best for me in terms of productivity - focusing on less number of topics each day, with deep work sessions or doing many tasks (basically multitasking).
- Will track my energy levels, focus and productivity at the end of each day for the next 6 days. Then will analyze the data and see what works best for me.
- This experiment will be strictly limited to study sessions and should not affect the projects I will be working on.
- Here is the plan:
Phase Day Type Description Round 1 Day 1 Single-subject One topic only (e.g. Embedded Systems). Day 2 Single-subject Another topic (e.g. AI Math). Day 3 Hybrid 3–4 hrs deep work + 1–2 hrs light secondary subject. Round 2 Day 4 Multi-subject 2–3 topics × 1.5–2 hrs each. Day 5 Multi-subject Different mix of topics; same time structure. Day 6 Reflection / optional repeat Re-run whichever style felt unclear or needs confirmation. - Let’s see how this goes!
28th, 29th October 2025 - Tuesday, Wednesday#
Summary#
- Study:
- - Low level/Systems
- - Artificial Intelligence(AI)
Reflections and Remarks
- Some procrastination, so productivity but progress, and I am all for that.
- Focused on hardware:
- Started this course on Electronics. I figured, if I want to get into hardware, I should know the basics of circuit design, etc. Let’s see how it goes and will I be able to finish it or not. Learned a lot about basics of how to use circuit simulators.
- Also, to get much lower level: I read this article, talks about how a container works under the hood. Quite interesting. I might do some project around this and also dive much more deeper as I found it very interesting.
- I need to get better at C/C++/Rust to get into low level programming and hardware in general.
- I started this simple idea submitter CLI tool written in Rust to submit ideas directly to the google sheet from my terminal. Will probably make it open source.
30th, 31st October 2025 - Thursday, Friday#
Summary#
- Study:
- - Low level/Systems
- - Artificial Intelligence(AI)
Reflections and Remarks
- 30th was a lot of procrastination, but still did some learning in low level systems.
- 31st was great. Got a lot done. Woke up early in the morning. Did AI math(linear algebra) after a long time, wrote a blog, etc etc. Evening was good started learning about the linux kernel programming.
- Planning to learn about the linux kernel and eventually contribute to it. I figured it will at the very minimum make me a good C and systems programmer, also I will get to work on such a large codebase for the first time. Excited for this journey. Started to read the Linux Kernel Development book by Robert Love.
- From now on I have decided to do only what I love doing, in terms of study, projects, etc. And maybe some AI stuff, as I don’t find it that interesting as of now. It just feeling like a lot of pattern recognition work, and not that much creativity. Let’s see how this goes.
1st November 2025 - Saturday#
Summary#
- Study:
- - Low level/Systems
- - Artificial Intelligence(AI)
Reflections and Remarks
- Pretty good day. Started off slow, then got a lot of work done in the afternoon and evening.
- Read more of the Linux Kernel Development book. Did some setup for kernel programming on my system. Looking forward to writing some code, not sure when though. Need to think of small projects.
- Thought of creating kernel notes but procastinated it. Will do it tomorrow.
- Too much theory, need to make things interesting by doing projects.
- Overall good day. Good start of the month. Hoping to get a lot done this month. Targeting at least 300 hours of focused study and project work, fingers crossed 🤞.
- Oh, and also I started watching the famous Star Trek finally. I wanted to see it for so long, finally I am doing it. I just saw the first episode. It was good. Looking forward to watching more of it.
2nd November 2025 - Sunday#
Summary#
- Study:
- - Low level/Systems
- - Artificial Intelligence(AI)
Reflections and Remarks
- Not that great day. Started well, but wasted a lot of time watching random YouTube videos later. Need to decrease that.
- Did some AI math - linear algebra: dot product specifically. Got a little challenging the visualization part, which is a good thing.
- Need to improve my sleeping habits. Will try to go to bed by max 1:30 AM from next week. Also, need to improve my eating habits, which got really bad especially near the holidays recently.
- Looking forward to a better week ahead.