Lately I've been at a bit of a spiritual crossroads, trying once again to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. So, like every other COVID survivor (what do you mean it's not 2020 anymore?), I'm starting a personal newsletter to explore my interests and synthesize my thoughts.
With any luck maybe it'll also provide inspiration (or entertainment) to anyone reading :)
As part of building my personal cloud, I wanted to back up my browser history. This is useful for info mining and search purposes, but also because Brave (or Chromium?) starts dropping data after 90 days. Who knew. The 90 day limit is hard-coded, so data loss is unavoidable without
I started reading Focusing a few weeks back after stumbling into self-help (or do we call it "lifestyle design" now?) twitter. The book offers the idea of a "felt sense" of problems where the body knows something is off, separate from and unaffected by any mental
I've been trying to spend more time at the Met, being that I live within (long-ish) walking distance and it is one of the eminent museums of the world and whatnot. Last week I visited the PixCell deer, which usually gets a fair amount of ooh's
Over the years I've noticed people seem to have two fundamental orientations towards goals: aspiration-first and reality-first. Aspiration-first thinking starts with an external or motivational stance. For example: "I need to lose 20 lb before summer to fit into my beach clothes / reach a certain BMI / etc&