[Question] how do you actually verify weekly update
how do you actually verify weekly update, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion. The four columns that survive, after several people here have tried and abandoned much more elaborate systems. Date. Dose. One number measured under consistent conditions. A short note when…
Why contemporaneous beats reconstructed, with the failure mode.
Memory smooths. Reconstructing a fortnight from recollection produces a series that is more regular, more consistent with your current beliefs, and quietly wrong in a direction that flatters the story you are already telling.
I found this out by reconstructing six weeks and later finding order receipts that contradicted my own entries. The log was not a little wrong; it was wrong in exactly the direction that made my narrative work. Write it down on the day, even the boring days, especially the boring days.
Added a sleep column late and immediately understood two of my worst weeks.
the value of a log is in month six, not week one
annotate the weeks where something else changed
record the dose, the day and one number, that is enough
Built an elaborate spreadsheet, abandoned it by week nine, restarted with four columns and have kept it ever since.