7. Isolation or Stress

This week was kinda terrible. I didn’t feel motivated at all and it might be because of the isolation due to COVID-19.

What have I been up-to last week?

I looked at some issues at work which related to a hardware failure and assisted in coming up with different hypothesis on what could have gone wrong. That work was a bit interesting. Apart from that I got to know that my MSc thesis presentation is going to get scheduled next week. It is a bit stressful because I cannot remember all the gory details of the research because I completed it a long time back. At the same time, I’m glad that it is finally coming to an end. It took too long to finish and I’m the only one to blame.

How is everything else?

I didn’t do much work and I event raised this concern at a retrospective meeting. People seem to believe that the cause might be related to the isolation. I’m not sure whether the reason for the lack of motivation is because of the isolation or it is because that I get easily distracted by other technological noises.

I couldn’t even keep up with my learning schedule because I had to concentrate on the MSc thesis. However, when I was trying to concentrate on my MSc thesis, I get distracted by totally unrelated work. Is it my procrastination kicking in? I’m not sure. However, up until next Tuesday my mind is going to be a bit stressed because of the MSc thesis. I need to concentrate on getting it completed properly.

I went to Norway NSW to feel the winter. Some might agree (Specially if you are living in USA or Canada) that Australian winter is a fake winter. It’s just a little bit cold and that’s it. However, this time there is some Arctic wind sweeping across NSW which resulted in a heavy snow fall in the Blue Mountain range and beyond. I didn’t expect such a heavy snowfall to be honest. However, I was amazed and I enjoyed being with the nature a lot.

What am I reading?

Every page in ‘Sapiens’ book stimulates thousands of thoughts in my mind! It is an amazing book! - Sapiens, A brief history of humankind - The English Spy

Any good TV shows or movies?

I’m watching the world’s most wanted criminals on Netflix.

Any new learnings?

None!

Backlog

  1. Build a simple radio - Lame level 10
  2. Setup an MQTT server and a few nodes

That’s a week!