Thank the goddesses for my recent attempts at #music transcription and also for #adhd #rx
My #constraintprogramming #radar #scheduling talk is in *gulp* two weeks. My rough draft is due FRIDAY.
5 years ago, I spent a week in front of blank slides, sometimes in tears, unable to even conceive of a method by which I could start.
Earlier this week, I did at least manage to gather a lot of content slides from other decks but as of this morning it was all just a jumble.
This morning I took a two-pronged approach
1. Clear the runway: Do dumb things like checking my inbox, getting a drink and music squared away, etc first. THEN take meds and dive in as they ramp up.
2. I was having trouble getting started but also specifically having trouble with the start of the slides. But there's no reason the first slide in the deck has to be the first one created.
For the song I've been working on transcribing, I gave up on "note by note from the beginning" approach. Instead I found spots where it was easy to figure out (single sustained notes, simple melodic progressions, etc). Then I tied those together knowing where the mystery passage had to start and end.
Why not do the same thing with PowerPoint? I definitely know what I want to say in the "design proposal" section. And I think I know what some future work will be. Start with those parts!
That only took like 30 minutes. And with that out of the way, it looked a lot more do-able to find some points to make in the "how did we get here" section.
I now have a (very) rough draft of the talk!
Kim Perales
Gehtso
dr 🛠️🛰️📡🎧
FIZ Karlsruhe
RadaR e.V. | Radio Darmstadt
RustyLMehlberg
CBC British Columbia
CBC Windsor
Tadeusz
