Fables and Spells by adrienne maree brown
"if you can’t see the small you will keep leaping from built thing to built thing"
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Who invented habit tracking?
An informal continuation of Remember when habits were bad?
I’m still surprised that I can’t find much on google regarding how habit tracking was invented. It seems like the kind of thing someone would pitch a deep dive into, especially given how easy it is to find articles
Casual experiments in productivity
I don’t know what I believe anymore about getting things done.
I’m writing this while my toddler pushes trucks around on the floor, so I have one eye on him and an awareness that I don’t know how long I’ll have to work on this before
“What would it mean to be done for the day?”
Just as I was going to resign myself to not writing this evening (a huge disappointment, as I’m surprisingly susceptible to the smiley faces in this low-key habit tracker, I opened an email about being done for the day from Oliver Burkeman (author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management
What is it about a good workbook?
That satisfying feeling of turning to the first exercise, with that virtuous thrill of embarking on a journey that will no doubt transform you in the exact ways the book’s title promises.
New tools, new formats, new thoughts
Today I learned how to make slides using Advanced Slides in Obsidian, and how to make diagrams using Mermaid.
Both of these involve making something visual with just text commands. Instead of dragging shapes and text around, in Advanced Slides, you identify where you want it in relation to the
What does a good nonfiction book do (and how does it do it)?
Why a book and not a pamphlet?