In the hopes that I would do all the things I set out to do at Recurse, I decided to post my intentions! I am now down with my batch but that doesn’t mean this document doesn’t still describe the things I wanted to do, what I did, and some of the most ‘recursey-projects’ I still hope to do!
At the very least, maybe this can serve as an expectation setter to new Recursers in the future.
⚙️ Processes
Notation: P1, P4.2
1. Present progress every two weeks < Accomplished during Recurse!
- Changing this to: present at least once a month
- Friday accountability checkin: review goals/processes myself (and maybe w/ buddy)
Didn’t do this but still think it’s a good idea
- Create and update calendar, chunky and colorful, with time-bound goals, post to blog (casual work of art in itself)
I didn’t do this but still want to
- Accountability partners
- Emily to vet my accountability system
- Someone to casually hold me accountability to the system on a weekly basis
Again, super good to do
🥅 General Recurse Goals
Notation: R1
- Deploy any project written in a machine language (Go or Rust)(can be a collaboration)
Never got around to this
- Use the recurse drawing machine to make one thing
- Make one person feel empowered to do something they were too scared to do
- Do at least one live musical performance
🌏 MOG
Main Goals
Notation: MB1, MB2
- Write a shader to render organisms with the GPU in any way
- Use noise to visibly shape organism behavior
- simulate genetic mutation of more than 2 traits on each organism
- Deploy and persist a world online
- Allow multiple players to be present in world, online
Reach Goals
- Enlist Rylee, Seamus, Isaac and Carsten
- Create 3D visualization of world
- Have any amount of sound
- Deploy and persist multiple wolds online
🧤 Input Gauntlet
Notation: GA1, GB1
Main Goals
Use glove events to output 4 distinct states, one of which is no-output- Power glove with power source that can be worn on arm
- Use the 4 distinct states to play different sounds
Reach Goals
- Connect glove via bluetooth and provide midi output to connected device (collab starts here)
- Get 12-state output on a glove
- create two working gloves
- Publish creation in such a way that others can use it to create a “layer two”
⌨️ Blog
Notation: BA1, BB2
Main Goals
- Create a permalinking system so that I can change blog structure without losing links
- Style it to be my own
- Also create a reasonably durable structure for blog entries
- Document all goal reaching
- Publish at least one entry per week
- Find a way to edit blog posts on my phone using obsidian sync
Reach Goals
- Create custom callout sections
- “live blog” at least one experience
- Take at least one portrait of a person per blog entry
- Showcase
- problem solving as an engineer
- Coherence as a writer, thinker, storyteller, photographer and communicator
- Creativity and inventiveness as an artist and engineer
👔 Professional Goals
Notation: Z1
Actionable
- Create a professional and technical blog entry for MOG, Gauntlet and GameJam
- Clean up Github to only include noteworthy projects, and revamp README on each to be clear, concise, professional and technical
”Heading” (not totally in my control)
- Get a job lined up for Sept or Nov
💛 Social
Notation: S1
- Have a get-together at my apartment
- Teach an inversions workshop
- Div: volunteer for horseshoe hell together!
- Enlist at least two people to come canoeing at the end of recurse
- Have a musical non-coding presentation
📍 Checkpoints
May 21th - First day of recurse (done)~~- June 17th - Will have been here for 1 month (2 weekdays left) ~~- July 1st - Halfway! ~~- July 15th - Will have been here for 2 months (4 weeks 2 days left) ~~- Last day of Recurse - August 9th (40 weekdays left 2 months)