Joe Cecil

Book review: Reflections on Silver River

Ken McLeod's Reflections on a Silver River is a good meditation book full of good advice and insights and practices that I will nod along to and place on my shelf and which will nevertheless not deeply affect my life for years. There are lots of great ideas

Crazy things I do to myself, 1/∞

I do crazy things to myself nearly every day. These include: 1. Feel bad about things I've done that worked out badly, even when I don't recognize them as part of a pattern of mistakes that I need to fix. 1. In fighting games it is

Book review: Tiny Habits

Tiny Habits is the most valuable nonfiction book I read this year. I don't expect that to change by December. It's really fucking good. I find this fascinating, because although it presents a great model and a lot of good advice, only maybe 30% of it

Overthinking overthinking my love life

I have a problem: I think too much. I try to solve problems by thinking that are better solved by acting. Then I try to solve my overthinking problem by thinking about how to solve it. Or, maybe it's more correct to say that I am bad at

The kind of guy I want to be

Yesterday I listened to a Zan Perrion recording. I like listening to Zan. I don't agree with everything he says, and a lot of it I think is better taken metaphorically than literally. But his talks are great food for thought about the kind of guy I want

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