Joe Cecil

Too much

I'm looking through the ideas section in my Workflowy and it's too much. There must be, after cleaning up, still about fifty immediate child bullets in that section. Included are: 1. Questions I have, or had. 2. Random observations. 3. Jokes. 4. Scraps of writing that

Story circle: The Super Mario Bros. Movie

(spoilers for the movie, of course) the super mario bros. movie has an unusually clear story circle structure: 1. mario and luigi and their plumbing business... 2. and their mean ex-boss, and disappointed family. 3. "we're going to save Brooklyn!" but they get sucked into the

How Logseq handles file name restrictions

Logseq lets you name pages whatever you want, at least as far as I've tried within the bounds of on-keyboard ASCII characters. It lets me use colons and question marks in page names. It also names the underlying files after the name of the page. How does that

Reacting to noticing the search for tricks

I'm noticing a pattern where: 1. I notice myself searching for tricks. 2. I react to that — sometimes joking, sometimes frustrated. I'm thinking about how this connects to meditation itself. In the context of opening awareness practice, when thoughts arise, there can be a habitual reaction

Bored to thought

I keep wanting meditation to be more. It's not, though. Continually catching myself asking questions about the details, trying to find the one trick I'm still missing. What if I had better posture? What if I reflected more, or better, or less? What if I reread

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