One week in, and the biggest surprise so far isn't about the subject I'm studying — it's about scheduling. I started with the assumption that longer sessions would move me forward faster. In practice, the opposite has been true.
The sessions that actually happened were the short ones I could slot in without much friction: twenty minutes in the morning, sometimes another ten before bed. The "real" hour-long block I'd planned for the weekend got pushed twice and finally skipped. It turns out a session that's easy to start beats a session that's theoretically more efficient but keeps getting postponed.
What I'm adjusting
Going forward I'm treating the short morning session as the actual commitment, and anything longer as a bonus rather than the plan. That reframing alone has made the habit feel less fragile — missing the "bonus" session doesn't feel like failing the day.
I'm also noticing that writing the log entry itself has become part of the rhythm. A couple of minutes summarizing what I did seems to help the material stick better than I expected — a small, unplanned benefit of just keeping this page.