May 24, 2025
Week 1 – Pass or Fail?
Well, week 1 was an epic fail. This doesn’t bode well. Weeks 1 and 2 of any commitment are usually the easiest to manage, for me at least.
Here is what happened?
On Monday morning I decided to create an automated task log. This was and is an attempt to deal with the question “Now what?”. Every day, all day I have a competing set of priorities that I struggle with. The list of books that I’ve read to try to answer this question isn’t short – here are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Steven Covey
- First Things First – Steven Covey
- Getting Things Done – David Allen
- Ready for Anything – David Allen
- The 12-Week Year – Brian P Moran
- E-Myth Mastery – Michael E Gerber
- Focus – Al Reis
- Vital Factors – Lee Froschheiser
The list goes on – and includes other books by the same authors and if there was a seminar or a course available after the book, I took it. I’ve spent thousands of dollars and countless hours thinking about and trying to prioritize, mostly to no avail.
So I thought, geez I’ll bet if I give this list to AI along with my priorities and goals and so forth I can probably have AI add these items to my calendar automatically and more effectively than I can do it.
3 Days! That’s what that turned into. I got totally obsessed with it and the first day got away from me before I even noticed. On Tuesday morning I got up and thought I’ll just fix this one thing … I did get some real work done but no Vienna’s Views.
I spent most of the day Wednesday on it, but I also worked with a new assistant I hired – and finally on Thursday morning I wrote “5/22/2025, 7:48:16 AM
Well, I’m pretty happy with myself. This calendar ap is even better than I planned.”
I did finally log in to Vienna’s Views on Wednesday. By then I was so far behind for the week I spent Thursday and Friday playing catch up. And there it is – the pattern I struggle with all the time.
A couple of interesting notes about working with AI on this – ChatGPT was unable to help finish this task though it started off strong. I moved on to Gemini – which at first seemed to be great but in the end destroyed the original logic and couldn’t “remember” anything – I wasted most of my time in these two models.
I started over in Claude and though I had to pay – was able to complete a working model in pretty short order. It doesn’t have any of the advanced logic I’m planning to add but it’s pretty cool.
So I worked in Vienna’s Views twice in this first week and today, this post is one of those times. On a pass/fail scale this is a fail.
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