I have varying degrees of distraction. I need to figure out how to communicate the degree of any given distraction that I am currently talking about.
Did performance review things yesterday. Goal setting is an awful thing. Knowing roughly where I want to be with my work in a years time is easy enough. Describing that in clear, concise language is an exercise in frustration.
One thing we talked about, or at least came up in passing multiple times, is my tendency towards getting distracted by interesting things. There are to many interesting things in this world. In another part of the conversation I mentioned the passing interest in getting something like Deepseek running locally, nominally so that I could compare outputs from various different models, practically because getting something like that running locally would be fun. This was not interpreted as a mild distraction of a day or so, rather it was interpreted as a something that would interfere with my larger plans for the year.
Another thing to come out of that discussion was the suggestion that I should try using a gantt chart. I've got entirely to many things in my plan that involve getting things done by the end of April and entirely not enough that suggest the end of July or October is reasonable. Fair enough. Here I am though, next morning, looking for locally hosted version of trello that have gantt charts, because all the trello ones require you to sign up to some new account. <le sigh>
On reflection, maybe to many of those little distractions are the problem. Not that I haven't gone tearing off down some months long rabbit hole before that proved to be a little bit useful but really not worth the time and effort involved.
And then it occurs to me that I haven't fired up obsidian for a while. Maybe that has a gantt chart plugin he mused. Surely someone's done that.