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   - [[pomodoro]]
     - [[write]] about [[do done trees]]
     - set up [[monitoring]] for [[moa]]
-    - set up [[monitoring]] for [[an agora]]
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+    - set up [[monitoring]] for [[an agora]]
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+I'm going to try to start writing longer form in my journal entries; as of recently I've mostly done arbitrary-levelled item lists, which map nicely to trees, but I miss the expressivity of prose.
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+This week is critical at work; there are many decisions to be made for my project, and two review sessions. I'm finding the concreteness of it helpful; I dislike deadlines but whenever they make sense I find them useful and can get behind them.
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