Curious what a week in the life of a software engineer, CTO, and entrepreneur looks like? Here is a slightly obfuscated .plan for the week and a breakdown of my time tracking.

Folks working a “9 to 5” usually comment on how few hours it seems I’m working. Keep in mind, I only start a timer when I’m specifically on-task. When I’m between tasks, idle, taking a break, etc., I stop the timer. When you look at a typical 8-hour workday, you are not on-task the entire 8 hours (usually, and hopefully not!).

I’ve been averaging approximately 4 hours a day since I’ve started time tracking. It seems to be the sweet spot for me. Another thing to consider is that I work 6.5 days a week, usually just a few hours on Sundays and a pretty full Saturday in addition to the typical Monday through Friday.

Week of Jun 8, 2025 - Jun 14, 2025

Total Hours: 28.7 hours

Daily Analysis

Average Hours per Day: 4.1 hours
Longest Day: Sunday - 6.4 hours
Shortest Day: Saturday - 0.1 hours

Task Breakdown

  1. Development: 12.7 hours (44.1%)
  2. Email + Comm + Admin: 8.3 hours (28.9%)
  3. Meetings: 7.3 hours (25.3%)
  4. Project Management: 0.4 hours (1.5%)
  5. Design: 0.1 hours (0.3%)

= 20250614 ===================================
*       book clifton strengths session for board mtg


= 20250613 ===================================
*       a website updates
*       complete assessment for wscb board
*       look into o security audit findings
*       made updates to microblog
*       merge faizan code fix for m
*       need to fix time, meetings are off by an hour?
*       plugin updates for o
*       scheduled call to review k shopify
*       test mg on web

- complete d and o website checks (inform aaliyah of prod changes)

integrate forms to campus cafe for a website
update plugins for d site


= 20250612 ===================================
*       created invoice and recurring invoice for topa
*       fix bouncing of site between home and hnla
*       fix colors for hnla for accessibility
*       follow up on mg web interface development
*       follow up on nab clover
*       follow up on sw blog strategy and visual progress
*       follow up on u submission to apple store
*       menu board updates for hello again
*       request migration of last 2 urls for o
*       test o research migration

+ invoice o migration once we finalize last 2 domains
- add caching for better perf for hnla

island booking r&d
make sw progress


= 20250611 ===================================
*       add termsfeed privacy policy to m website
*       added test recaptcha to o microsites
*       made updates to hnla dev site per meeting
*       reschedule meeting with josh tomorrow re: hcf report
*       sent instructions for 3 missing blog posts for a website
*       updated toast online ordering for holiday
*       work on estimate for hon website
*       write a script to create daily agenda txt file saved to plan, reading email and calendar

+ review latest k video from dev
- make hcf updates per joshs latest info (wait for more clarity)


= 20250610 ===================================
*       check on how to expense claude for m
*       d addon plugin update audit info
*       hnla website changes
*       remove h f from wpe, backed up first
*       sent data exports from u promo
*       shared app store info for mha
*       work on data definition for resources in mha app
*       work on o migrations
*       move sw tasks to a sw plan file
*       fix missing page numbers in autogenerated pdf report

+ pay insurance renewal down payment
+ test changes to hcf code from claude
- provide k shopify update this week

add additional complex ppt slides to m autogen feature


= 20250609 ===================================
*       approved o migration cost
*       call with christian re: prototype
*       checked on ga for mihf
*       follow up to complete o migration
*       team lunch celebrate website launch
*       start on claude code workflow implementation
*       sw support ticket follow up
*       work on volunteer page for mihf
*       worked on analytics reports for mihf

+ fix o forms (urls in contact form 7)
+ follow up with gopal on theme designs
+ follow up with k staff page edits
+ follow up with last o migration so I can invoice
- follow up with k shopify 
- o form updates for ib


= 20250608 ===================================
*       prep tasks for team for k team page updates

I’ll post these weekly reports when I can, hopefully weekly but it takes time to scrub the .plan file so I know I’ll eventually get lazy.

F1 and the Canada GP

We didn’t do so great, slipping a bit in the points in the driver’s championship. I think Lando made a mistake in the execution, but not in the decision to attempt a pass. At the end of the day, that’s racing.

As one of my fave drivers, the legendary Ayrton Senna once said,

“If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver”

Ayrton Senna 9 (cropped)
Instituto Ayrton Senna, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

I’m just glad he didn’t get hurt and didn’t ruin Oscar’s race. We all knew it would eventually come to this, with both drivers competing for the championship. I hope he can keep his head up and we’ll see how #papayarules evolves after today. Congratulations to GR63 and to Kimi for his first podium. The Mercedes team looked solid all weekend, congratulations!

And to all the fathers out there, in the various shapes and forms of fatherhood, have a most wonderful Father’s Day!