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The Architecture of My Life

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I'm really really curius if those things make a real difference.

I have very mixed feelings between 'i want to have nice little automations like this' and 'i don't need them at all'

Does it help to keep your mind free when you have it like this?

Does it help you because you are not good in those things?

Like take the cleaning thing as an example: i wanted to do a yearly calendar for a while where i finetune my things i have to do over the year which would allow me to fine tune this calendar (which includes eating plan, cleaning plan, personal hygiene plan) vs. i have my life under control anyway.

Lets take an easy example: birthday of my wife, having a calendar entry a few weeks before allows me to do a restaurant reservation. Knowing the holidays its allows me to order a tree in time. Having an calendar entry in summer allows me to organize a winter holiday in time.

Mixed feelings. I'm not huge into this direct life automation, but I do automatically download most of my data from 3rd party platforms, including banking data, expenses, documents I scan on my phone (i. e. letters) and load them onto my NAS. I then have automated scripts that categorize, catalogue and index the data. For only very few of them I look at the data specifically, but it just makes me feel at ease to a) know it's there and b) know it's organized and I don't have to do it.

I find asking the question:

Can money solve this problem?

If it can it doesn’t need to be automated unless your hobby is automation.

Nearly all the problems can be solved with either a better data plan or more storage.

Reduce complexity. Enjoy more time. Granted for many extra time forces them to think about the big question of “IT” so it’s safer to spend it on meaningful meaningless things.

The author is a graduate student in CS.

Automating small things, like music and lighting color is fun, but not very helpful (except for learning about automation).

Automating the truly useful stuff (interfacing with other people, anything related to money) can make a huge mess when something goes wrong.

Author is describing a cognitive dissonance they are not quite able to grasp: their passion is automation rather than the task

That rhymes really well.

Ha, thank you. Ok, incorporating this into some post nerd rap trap dubs next week

He does have a passion for automation, but where's the dissonance? He recognizes it in the very opening, with the xkcd!

Ah, interesting! I had a similar architecture planned for my own automation software a long while back, it's nice and validating to see that other people had the idea too! :)

Is 98 minutes of music in a year meant to represent "a lot of music"? Or was this meant to say hours?

The author's name sounds something like Dutch or Swedish to me. Most european countries use dots to separate the thousands, and commas to separate decimals.

Hi, original author here. Its 98k minutes as ptato said. So that would be 1649 hours.

Seems like a great way to upgrade one's procrastination to the next level...

I'm both impressed and horrified by complexity of this.

I do (parts of) this with Huginn.

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