Bad for me
- Checking social media (becomes addiction, always makes me feel worse)
- Keeping up with the news (becomes addiction, always makes me feel worse)
- Consuming nicotine (becomes addiction, always makes me feel worse)
- Chasing material things (getting whatever just makes me want something else)
- Playing status games (reaching a new level just makes me want to reach for the next)
- Keeping up with the Joneses (always a Jones up the street with something out of my reach)
Good for me
- Reading books (requires effort, always makes me feel better)
- Reading thoughtful blogs (requires effort, always makes me feel better)
- Working out regularly (requires effort, always makes me feel better)
- Writing regularly (requires a lot of effort, makes my head feel clean)
- Showering in cold water (requires only a little effort, makes me feel great)
- Living in the moment (because there is nothing else)
- Doing meaningful work (work that is meaningful to me)
- Enjoying the process (anything else is unsustainable)
Notes
On social media
Even Mastodon is too much for me. I get caught up in polemic discourse, hottakes without nuance and black and white world views. It poisons my mind and I need to stay away.
To wit, I have retired my original Mastodon account. All my online sharing and socialising will be through this blog. To facilitate this, I have enabled comments, webmention and ActivityPub federation.
Which means you can follow and interact with me in these ways:
- Follow: By subscribing to the RSS feed.
- Follow: By subscribing to weekly email summaries of all my posts, notes and links.
- Follow: By using your fediverse account to follow this website.
- Interact publicly: By leaving a comment directly on any given post, note or link.
- Interact publicly: By commenting from a fediverse account of any given post, note or link.
- Interact publicly: By sending a webmention from your own blog to any given post, note or link.
- Interact privately: By emailing me.
On reading
Since my last month report, I’ve gotten back into the groove. I’m a bit behind on book reports, but will try to catch up with notes on the books I’ve read lately over the coming weeks.
On writing
I fell off the horse. Lost my streak. Couldn’t sustain getting up at 5AM in the morning, when life threw a couple of extra curve balls at me. Nothing serious, just life being life. Have to figure out when and how to make writing every day a sustainable habit. Will share more on this in future posts, as I attempt to figure it out.
My head needs it. My soul needs it. I need to make it work.
On life in general
Update coming to my /now page soon, as I’ve secured a new role at my current company. I’ll be working with stuff I really enjoy working on. But it also involves some changes that require some adapting on my end.
I’ll write a post on this, too, in the coming weeks.
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