Joe Cecil

An example of a non-obvious lag measure

Some goals come with obvious lag measures. For example: 1. Goal: Reach a body weight of 165 lbs. Lag measure: My body weight. 2. Goal: Scale my business (income) to $1500 MRR. Lag measure: Recurring revenue—monthly, annual, whatever. There measures are obvious in the sense that the goal is

To solve review avoidance, declare review amnesty?

I find I don't always keep up with my long-term (monthly, quarterly, yearly) reviews in Intend, and I think review amnesty might help. I tend to avoid the long term reviews. One reason (of at least two) is that I feel bad about not having had/made time

Poorly-written characters are not a problem (in a first draft)

On reflection: It's not a problem to write a first draft with poorly-written characters. I worry about it. That worry slows down my writing. But I don't think it actually matters. I've often worried if the characters I'm writing "work."

Sounds I don't need to know, but want to

I don't have a particular need to recognize or be able to produce these sounds, but I kind of want to anyway. IPA symbol (per Wikipedia) Sound name y Close front rounded vowel ø Close-mid front rounded vowel œ Open-mid front rounded vowel ʊ Near-close near-back rounded vowel

Eval game rule 10

Rule 10 of the eval game implies there is a way to remove a file without using __import__("os").unlink(). But how? You can't index into builtins() because it doesn't exist. I wonder if one has to fudge the rule and use getattr on

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