- Reading still brings me joy
- Reading together is a much better experience. It makes difficult books easier to stick with.
- If pen & paper is something I come back to any time I’m overwhelmed, maybe it’s best to just stick to pen and paper always
- Especially if new stationary brings me so much JOY.
- Social networks are a platform. You’d never choose to stand on an unstable platform IRL, why stand on one online?
- Everyone needs to have their own website
- RSS is still low-key the best thing about the internet.
- Newsletters and knowing the emails of your friends is a close second.
- It’s possible to get used to the worst things.
- It’s important to continue to work to make them better.
- The only two options are to accept or to change.
- Knowing what you can change makes it easier.
- Journaling helps
- Morning pages help.
- None of this helps as much as therapy or taking the necessary medications.
- The "peak" of the internet was always the "small community" aspect of it. Forums. Blog comment sections. Local meetups. The closest thing that exists now is Mastodon, I think.
- Them Apple products with the M123 chips are really the best things ever. Haven’t experienced this much joy using a new product since my first iPod Nano.
- A lesson I’ve learned but not really "internalized" yet is that a little work every day really is better than lots of "thinking" and then one crazy sprint to get it all done last moment.
- Looking for a new job is fucking scary and takes forever. (and I’m one of the lucky ones)
- Kindle is the best way to read for me.
- My ideal number of "books to read at the same time" is between 4 and 5. Any less than that and I get bored. Any more than that and I get overwhelmed.
- You know what’s better than sex? A really good book.
- Knowing the truth when everyone around you believes lies is worse than not knowing anything at all.
- It’s also better, but I’m not sure that in the end it’s a net positive for me, personally.
- Depending on how you count there are either six or seven types of rest and you have to make sure you’re "hitting" each type to actually get rest.
- You don’t really "own" anything digital that you buy unless you take the kinds of steps that some jurisdictions deem illegal.
- L-Theanine to help with coffee jitters
- The whole "different" generations thing is booooooriiiiiing because I feel like there are more similarities than differences and focusing too much on the differences is just cringey either way (but more so when the olds comment on the youths).
- Future developments notwithstanding, AI looks like it’s going to do more harm than good.
- Luddites aren’t the same thing as the amish. They’re not against all technology — they’re against harmful technology.
- I accept that twitter has always sucked in the "abusive relationship" kind of way.
- Being on twitter now is just… saying to yourself that you don’t deserve to be happy.
- This one isn’t 100%, but living with two cats is better than living with one cat, but I think two is the cutoff.
- Old stuff that withstood the test of time (like, stuff that’s before my time and even before my parents’ time) is good. A lot of the "new stuff" we’re seeing now costs more than the benefits that it brings.
- Do not sync Obsidian using iCloud. It makes shit slow.
- Ember Mugs, dude!
- If you’re struggling on making something long, make something short instead
- If you don’t drink enough water during the day you should try getting a SodaStream.
- Everyone could benefit from a really good pair of headphones with noise cancellation.
- Air out your room before going to sleep and try to keep the temperature low (and the covers warm). 10x improvement in sleep quality.
- Get a good pillow.
- Fountain pens rock.
- As much as I hate it, I think time blocking kinda works for me.
- Getting Things Done is the foundation of all good productivity systems. Skip all other "productivity" books/videos/lectures and just read that.
- The fact that Adobe is a subscription-based service is stupid. I got all the Apple apps for the price of one year of subscribing and it does 99% of what needs to be done.
- You gotta have soup at least once a week.
- The more I look around the less crazy the preper people seem to me.
- If you’re not subbing to YouTube Premium, what are you doing? Best bang for the buck in the world.
- Everyone needs to learn how to use torrents. Not for piracy reasons… but… for reasons.
- "It’s about the friends you make along the way."
- Getting the ability you have to influence/improve your local community will be one of the most rewarding things you can strive for.
- The propaganda machines (plural) are working overtime right now, and it’ll only get worse in 2024. Media literacy is not a "nice to have" — it’s basically a prerequisite for survival.
