Three Pages a Day
source: https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqh0ctavbmsz9aqhkx41be3y tags: #literature #writing #living-well #startup-routines uid: 202302201656 —
Whether or not this has you rushing for the nearest notebook, there’s a general attitude here that’s well worth cultivating — a healthy scepticism toward the part of your brain that’s so enthusiastic about controlling how things unfold. You just do the pages, and something else does the rest. Source: https://read.readwise.io/read/01gr0zaqmvgtf5d24sg4ps5ccq
Don’t trip so hard about your consciousness always being in the drivers’ seat in your brain. Sometimes, just let your brain take the wheel and you might be surprised by what you find.
Morning Pages is another tactic for getting out of your own way like this — a ritual, in a deep sense of that word, because what’s key is the observance, not harnessing that observance for some particular outcome. Everyone should have one or two such rituals, if you ask me, to help unclench one’s agitated grip on the world and to encounter reality as it is. Source: https://read.readwise.io/read/01gr0zcqk3ckx1e4z1r0zzghm7 Whether or not this has you rushing for the nearest notebook, there’s a general attitude here that’s well worth cultivating — a healthy scepticism toward the part of your brain that’s so enthusiastic about controlling how things unfold. You just do the pages, and something else does the rest. Source: https://read.readwise.io/read/01gr0zaqmvgtf5d24sg4ps5ccq
Systems (not goals) that I want to have
- I want to have a going-to-sleep and waking-up system. How can I accomplish going to sleep on time?
- Try forcing myself to go to sleep without as many sleep triggers.
- Brush and get ready for bed much before my bedtime.
- Read before sleeping (which can be easily time-boxed) rather than doing spelling bee, which is 1) on my phone and 2) not as time-boxed. How can I accomplish waking up on time?
- Before going to bed, have something that will motivate me to wake up and jump out of bed.
- Have the immediate thing that I want to work on the next morning already somewhat fleshed out. If there’s anything about it that I’m still not sure about, make sure that I already have that resolved before the next morning.
- I want to have a “working at least x hours a day” system.
- I want to have a “working at most y hours a day” system.
- I want to have a writing system.
- I want to have a working out system.
- I want to have a system for clearing out my old Things tasks (and actually doing them in a timely fashion).
- I have a spelling bee system, but i’ve had trouble being consistent with it lately (as of 2/14/23).
- I have/had a walking system, but I want to figure out how to be consistent with it independent of the Fitbit.
Of these, I think I currently have a bit of (5), although that one is also a bit of a stretch. I need to think about how I’m going to be able to accomplish all the other ones.
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Reflections From Obra Dinn
I realized that I just need patience, which I’m missing. I need to be more patient. Everything can be logically deduced. I just dislike how you need to go all the way to a different place to check out the memory. You need to have patience, which I don’t really have.
I realized I’m also not the best at open world games. They kind of freak me out, and I don’t approach things in the most rational way.
When I don’t understand how things work, it freaks me out, because I usually do.
The fact that I have to think in reverse chronological order also tripped me up. I’m not used to thinking in that kind of reverse way.
The number of triangles — one to three — next to the face indicates the difficulty of deducing that person’s identity. These are fixed by the developer and do not change as you gain information. Identities with only one triangle generally imply that the person’s name is mentioned in dialogue at some point.
I didn’t realize this.
I also didn’t have the patience to go through and solve all the first ones first.
I should’ve just read the spoiler-free version first!
Update 01-09-23 from Civ 6 gameplay: if things go badly in the beginning, I feel like I want to restart. It feels like I’ve already lost the game.
- At the same time, I want to keep playing to explore how the game works, but this is just so I can play better in the future (using it as a trial round). It’s still driven by competitiveness at heart.
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Reflections
I’ve been over-eating so much recently. In general, I’ve been living with very little structure and restraint. I’ve fallen into the pattern of pushing “fixing” my life to some later date and using that as an excuse to do whatever I feel like doing. The two-marshmallow side of my brain has not fired in the last month. Instead of “unblocking” myself by doing all the things that I know will help me get back onto the forward-thinking, “being good repeatedly” 202210031623 side of myself, I’ve been checking Pinboard in the hopes of finding something exciting and productive-seeming enough for me to justify the fact that I’m neglecting all of my actual responsibilities. I haven’t even been reading the articles that I have saved because that would serve to unblock the mental dam I’ve created for myself, and I’ve been terrified to do that.
I’m going to start thinking of my life as a Bayesian 202212092211: think about the prior probability of a claim in isolation, and update the posterior probability of the claim in light of the likelihood of displayed evidence.
Created from: Journal entry: 12-09-22 202212090801
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Companies That Have Reached Out To Me
Not really interested
- Manan - Benchmark reach-out
- Matt Noye - from Theorem
- Random deep learning startup
- Hive.ai
- Skiff — This is where Saharsh works
- Join Contrary - the engineering-first Venture Fund
Update 12-29-22: Notes is not the best format for this. This should probably just be in Airtable. Specifically because it is difficult to see the
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