Day plan

Friday, September 4

Improvement
Morning
6:10Wake, kiss LA on the forehead
6:12Fill water bottle, drink from it
6:15Feed cats, fill their water
6:25Scoop litter
6:30Cold shower, one minute
6:32Dry off, get dressed
6:38Pack the clothes for after. You do not come home again.
6:45Vape now. Not before.
6:50Gym parking lot. Three tabs kicked from the car.
7:40Workout, one hour
8:45Left the gym, drove to Starbucks
9:05Starbucks. MSF-08 closed, MSF-02 A, B and C closed.
12:10Left. MSF-02 D and E and both plan sessions in flight.
12:35At Blase's, 199 Echo Ridge. MSF-03 and MSF-04 have their groups.

Two budgets, and today they swapped places. All morning your hands were the constraint. From 1:00 the clock is: 273 active minutes left against 325 available, and you still finish at 7:23, because MSF-03 is a four link chain and you spend the afternoon waiting on generation rather than running out of attention.

The work day
6:50 to 12:10
T1 MSF-02 T2 MSF-08 T3 Widget build T4 Spec method
MSF-08 closed. Done.

Four tabs before you sit

Thirty minutes in the gym parking lot and three hours at Starbucks. A whole master decided and folded, half of a second one, and the spec method defined, before you got to Blase's.

Writing the specs is off today, and not because of time. Reading MSF-01 and MSF-06 to define the method showed that decision groups in other masters have to close before either spec can be written. The method is done and the specs are blocked, so the rest of the day is decisions.
12:35 to 3:00
T1 MSF-02 D, E, then F T2 MSF-03 A T3 MSF-04 A
100 of 115 min on you

Finish D and E, then kick F

D and E have 35 minutes of clock and 15 of you left each. F is blocked by B, D and E, and B is long done, so D and E are the gate. MSF-03 A and MSF-04 A are already running.

MSF-03 A reviewed by 2:21, or MSF-03 does not close today. Four links, each 60 minutes of generation plus 21 of you, is 324 minutes. From a 1:00 kick that lands D's review at 7:23 with 37 minutes of margin against the cutoff. The chain has no parallelism in it and no slack: every minute A waits, the close moves a minute, four links down.
The bar reads 100 of 115 on purpose. Nothing is reviewable between 12:35 and about 1:10, and nothing lands between 1:40 and 2:00. That is real waiting, not spare capacity, and it is the shape of the whole afternoon from here.
3:00Drive home, 30 minutes. Five lanes generating. MSF-03 B lands at 3:21, in the car.
3:30  ·  The hinge of the day

MSF-03 B, then C, before anything else

3:30Review MSF-03 B, 21 minutes
3:51Kick MSF-03 C. Lands 4:51, during the LA drive.

This is the one kick of the day that cannot wait for you to settle in. MSF-03 C needs an hour of generation and you are gone from 4:15 to 5:15. Kicked at 3:51 it is finished and waiting at 5:15. Kicked at 5:15 it lands at 6:15, D lands at 7:36, and D's own 21 minutes do not fit before 8:00.

3:30 to 4:15
T1 MSF-02 F T2 MSF-03 B, then C T3 MSF-04 B and C
45 of 45 min on you

Forty five minutes at home

4:15Drive LA to work and back, home 5:15. MSF-03 C lands at 4:51, in the car.
5:15 to 8:00
T1 MSF-02 fold T2 MSF-03 C, then D T3 MSF-04 B, C, fold
128 of 165 min on you

The last stretch

Three masters close in this block and you have 37 minutes of attention you never spend, because from 5:36 you are waiting on MSF-03 D to generate. The order below is the order, not a list.

MSF-03 D kicked by 6:36. It lands at 7:36 and costs 21 minutes, which is exactly what is left and not a second more. The 37 minutes of unspent attention in this block cannot buy that back: they are minutes you have while a tab is generating, and a tab you have not kicked generates nothing.
If everything closes before 7:30. Kicking the next master's plan session is five minutes of you and it runs overnight. Three masters closed today and a fourth planned before bed is the cheapest start tomorrow will ever get.
If it goes sideways, cut from the bottom
  1. MSF-04 C, the Shared Notification Store. 28 minutes plus the fold. B and C are independent, so cutting C leaves B ruled and appended, and MSF-04 resumes tomorrow one group short rather than restarting.
  2. The MSF-02 fold. 20 minutes, and the worst cut on the list. All six rulings exist and only the merge is missing, so cutting it leaves the master decided and not closed.
  3. MSF-03 D. Only if its 6:36 kick was missed. Cutting D is cutting the group that carries the Status word, which neither MSF-02 nor MSF-03 has ruled and which both need.

Already cut: the widget placement and the For Operators image, third day at the bottom of this list and today they came off. The MSF-01 and MSF-06 specs are not cut, they are blocked: the method exists, the decisions they depend on do not.

Never cut
MSF-03 A reviewed by 2:21 MSF-02 F kicked by 1:40 Leaving Blase's at 3:00 MSF-03 C kicked by 3:51 MSF-03 D kicked by 6:36 MSF-02 Consent Model closed 8:00, laptop shut
End of day, did it hold?