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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…
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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,…
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Thirty-Eight
It’s been 19 and a half years since I wrote my first entry, just over half my life ago. I’ve been feeling the itch to write again for a bit. Joshua has been crushing it lately, which has been part of my inspiration. I’ve also had more folks express appreciation for my writing and encourage…
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Loss and Sorrow
For anyone who asked I described 2023 as the best and worst year of my life. Now, nearly halfway through 2024, I’m ready to write about it.
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Broken Streaks
This year has been simultaneously the best and worst of my 37 years on earth so far. Through the ups and downs, tiny habits have continued to do their part to keep me on the rails. Two habits in particular have stayed with me the longest: pushups, and a daily cold shower. Today would have…