{"id":20777,"date":"2025-03-03T07:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=20777"},"modified":"2025-03-03T07:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:20:23","slug":"five-things-i-did-at-work-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/five-things-i-did-at-work-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things I did at work last week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So apparently DOGE&#8217;s &#8220;what are five things you did at work last week&#8221; is now an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/doge-makes-5-bullets-email-weekly-task-sparking-new-turf-battle-employee-confusion\">ongoing weekly task,<\/a> which I am heartily in favor of, at least until the Trump Administration&#8217;s reforms to the executive branch are complete. The best counter-argument for this policy that I&#8217;ve heard so far <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedeeplife.com\/podcasts\/episodes\/ep-342-the-good-life-algorithm\/\">comes from Cal Newport,<\/a> who points out that this sort of request is typical of an insecure and overbearing manager, but I don&#8217;t find that argument very convincing. Given the sheer amount of corruption and outright fraud that Elon Musk&#8217;s DOGE has already uncovered, I think there are very good reasons for the Trump Administration to be overbearing. Besides, it really shouldn&#8217;t be that hard to come up with five bullet points, as I will demonstrate now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, I:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>finished releasing all of my books in audio on Audible, using KDP&#8217;s AI narration tools,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>made a rough outline for a seven book series, of which my current WIP (<em>The Soulbond and the Sling<\/em>) will be the first,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>re-released &#8220;Lord of the Slaves&#8221; as a free short story,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>wrote up character sheets for all of the viewpoint characters in <em>The Soulbond and the Sling,<\/em> and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>outlined twelve separate throughlines in the story bible for <em>The Soulbond and the Sling.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, the trauma. How can I possibly be expected to do this every week? And people say that writing isn&#8217;t a &#8220;real&#8221; job\u2026 in any case, I plan to make this a regular thing for as long as DOGE and Elon Musk continue to keep it going. Feel free to add your own five bullets in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently DOGE&#8217;s &#8220;what are five things you did at work last week&#8221; is now an ongoing weekly task, which I am heartily in favor of, at least until the Trump Administration&#8217;s reforms to the executive branch are complete. The best counter-argument for this policy that I&#8217;ve heard so far comes from Cal Newport, who&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/five-things-i-did-at-work-last-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five things I did at work last week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[457,1145,1835,925,1188],"class_list":["post-20777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-current-events","tag-elon-musk","tag-five-things-i-did-at-work-last-week","tag-news-and-updates","tag-trump","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-5p7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20778,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20777\/revisions\/20778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}