Positive Peer Pressure
I do enjoy writing. Well, I enjoy the output of writing. It’s been about 6 months, though, since I last wrote. It’s a new year and my experiment with JonathanOS continues. I’ve thought about moving an update on progress from my head to the keyboard and just didn’t feel motivated enough for one reason or…
Five weeks in
I started work on upgrading my personal operating system with a fairly straightforward motivation. For years, I’ve been experimenting with tiny habits that require 5 minutes or less to complete and I’ve found that they work well for me. There are worthwhile efforts, though, that simply require more than 5 minutes per day and where…
Progress
I’m 5 days in to running the upgrade to my personal operating system. A couple of highlights so far. Day Planning Historically, I haven’t been one to plan out my day except around what’s already on the calendar. With now roughly 2 hours of additional items that I want to get done within a given…
Upgrading my Operating System
With 38 just behind me, I’ve been thinking ahead over this past week about the mental “operating system” I use to manage my life, particularly how and where I invest my time and energy. My experiment with tiny habits, has gone on for over 5 years now and habits have become a core part of…
Failure
In Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, there’s a key moment where they’re trying to decide whether to create new tools or to create an environment with gravity where existing tools will work. They decide to do the latter, reasoning that it’s far better to use tools that have gone through millions of hours of testing,…
