Joe Cecil

What if I were serious?

A thing I'm noticing I can ask myself is: What if I were serious? That is, given some topic – what if I were serious about that? What if I were serious about this class I'm taking? What if I were serious about online dating? What if

Focus

Focusing is hard. There's too much to be done, even limiting to things that I care to do. Focusing means (?) picking just one or two of those to do, and not doing the rest. Unkindly, that is: Leaving the rest to rot. That is difficult. Maybe a better

Driving safely in an unfamiliar area: Thoughts, 1

How do you drive safely in an unfamiliar area? I've been thinking of attending a conference which would mean driving in just such an area, so this seemed relevant. I don't drive in distant or large cities often (understatement), so I rarely need to do this.

Relaxing your hands, 1

1. Don't spend all day working a computer for hours at a time not taking appropriate breaks. 2. Don't after that go and play on a laptop table with terrible ergonomics such that you have to angle your arms up and reach forward to type. 3.

Sisyphus

One approach to learn a skill is to do hard things repeatedly until you get better. Whenever the current hard thing gets easy, you move on to the next hard thing. Once you beat Ascension Level 0 in Slay the Spire, you move on to Ascension Level 1; when you

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