Course | What Was my Goal? | What I did... | What did I learn? | How Can I Improve my Approach? | Potential Next Steps... |
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SWE | Work for 30 minutes √ | Decided on objectives & course materials | What I'll be doing and why | Attempt an MIT problem and read/experiment with the 'Learning on Steroids' online course (LoS) | Start LoS. Attempt a problem from MIT's 6.0042j course |
VSK8 | Spend 30 minutes skating vert √ | Learned to skate my new vert board. Attempted to skate transition again. Filmed my starting point bs air | Vert skills atrophy quickly | Have a plan so I don't get confused or discouraged when I get to the skatepark | Structure the learning approach using Tim Ferriss' 'How to 10x Your Results, One Tiny Tweak at a Time' podcast. |
SOLO | Work for 30 minutes √ | Decided on mini-courses and objectives. Clarified the learning method. | Action is the underlying learning method. What I'll be doing and the underlying method. A course a week is not a goal, action matters. | Compile all actionable tips into a journal. Cross them off as I complete them | Synthesize 'I Will Teach You to be Rich' (IWT) into an actionable list |
APPD | Work for 30 minutes X | Nothing | Force myself to start and complete the smallest possible section of the app course I'm taking | Get 1% further in my online app developer course | |
Overall | Spend 30 minutes a day X | Published 'Unquitting Unschool'. Made structural changes | The hardest part is getting started. Once I start the 30 minutes flies by, but now my willpower is mostly exhausted with starting. | Make a progress report format (this). Keep a general Graduate Unschool journal. Update progress report fields every time I work | Spend 30 minutes a day of focused on Graduate Unschool (GU) everyday |
Notes: I feel like I didn’t make as much progress as I would have liked, but I made more progress than last week, and I identified a few changes I can make to improve next week. I understand this is not impressive, but right now it’s about sticking to my plans and moving forward, not impressing anyone.

The peak of the highest backside air I could land. My starting point for the vert skateboarding course.