November 2021 OKR Review
Status review for OKRs to apply some accountability for making progress towards the goal.
Current OKRs
Be more focused
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Complete 10 books and summary/takeaway write-ups this calendar year
- Status: 8 books completed (80% of goal), 2 books in progress.
- Completed Books Since Last Time: Sustainable in a Circular World
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Write 1 new blog post per month
- Status: 6 blog posts (0.54 posts per month)
- Jan: 0 posts
- Feb: 2 posts (#LetsGreenTheWeb initiative, Sustainability in Site Reliability Engineering)
- March: 0 posts
- April: 1 post (Earth Day 2021)
- May: 1 post (SRE Cultural Values)
- June: 1 post (My Running Mantra: PBR)
- July: 0 posts
- August: 0 posts
- September: 0 posts
- October: 1 post (Learning by Interviewing On-Call Engineers)
- November: 0 posts
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Maintain 30% focus time (2+ hour blocks) at work per week
- Status: Just under 30% for October due to extra space in my calendar from spinning down my responsiblities in my former role. Ramping up in the new role brought this back down temporarily but am being intentional about guarding my focus time and will have some holidays to balance this out a bit.
| Date | Focus Time % | Monthly Average |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 3-9 | 21.11% | |
| Jan 10-16 | 22.22% | |
| Jan 17-23 | 18.06% | |
| Jan 24-30 | 25.56% | 21.74% |
| Jan 31-Feb 6 | 20.00% | |
| Feb 7-13 | 14.44% | |
| Feb 14-20 | 0.00% | |
| Feb 21-27 | 22.22% | 14.17% |
| Feb 28-Mar 6 | 27.78% | |
| Mar 7-13 | 8.89% | |
| Mar 14-20 | 24.44% | |
| Mar 21-27 | 20.00% | |
| Mar 28-Apr 3 | 0.00% | 16.22% |
| Apr 4-10 | 20.00% | |
| Apr 11-17 | 20.00% | |
| Apr 18-24 | 12.22% | |
| Apr 25-May 1 | 12.22% | 13.61% |
| May 2-8 | 16.67% | |
| May 9-15 | 15.56% | |
| May 16-22 | 11.11% | |
| May 23-30 | 19.75% | 15.77% |
| May 31-Jun 5 | 19.75% | |
| Jun 6-12 | 12.22% | |
| Jun 13-19 | 7.41% | |
| Jun 20-26 | 12.5% | |
| Jun 27-July 3 | 30.86% | 16.55% |
| Jul 5-9 | 25% | |
| Jul 12-16 | 16% | |
| Jul 19-23 | 22% | |
| Jul 26-30 | 0% | 15.75% |
| Aug 2-6 | - | |
| Aug 9-13 | 44% | |
| Aug 16-20 | 28% | |
| Aug 23-27 | 30% | |
| Aug 30-Sep 3 | 33% | 33.75% |
| Sep 6-10 | 0% | |
| Sep 13-17 | 17% | |
| Sep 20-24 | 4% | |
| Sep 27-Oct 1 | 0% | 5.25% |
| Oct 4-8 | - | |
| Oct 11-15 | 19% | |
| Oct 18-22 | 36% | |
| Oct 25-29 | 23% | 26% |
| Nov 1-5 | 19% | |
| Nov 8-12 | 11% | |
| Nov 15-19 | 30% |
Become a better friend and family member
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Connect with 5 friends per week
- Status: No hard metrics, spent another weekend with college friends and people I have not seen in a long time. Still difficult with increased work pressure and continued COVID concerns
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Connect with 2 family members per week
- Status: Missed 1 week in February, 2 weeks in April, end of August was very light, early November has been very light as well
- Time constraints of work and just general languishing have made this tricky recently
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Connect with 2 new co-workers per month
- Status: 4 people in October, average of 10.3 people per month for Jan-Oct.
- October connections mostly through Sustainability and new role/org intros.
Explore the natural world to gain better perspective on the planet
- 1 10k+ trail run per week and 2 first-time trails per month
- Status: Distance goal and first-time trails target met for October (Hyde Park and St. James Park). Took a lot of time off from running post marathons and may miss the Novemeber mark
- Visit 3 National Parks
- Status: 2 National Park visited: Haleakala, Mt. Rainier
- Know history and present-day leadership for 3 Native American tribes
- Status: Joined Indigenous Employee Resource Group at work that includes and automated "coffee connection" bot. Looking to meet and learning from others in the group