You get your best ideas in the morning.


Due to life and circumstances, the only time you get the time, space and bandwidth *actually* write is in the evening. How do you cope? How do you retain your ideas?


All answers appreciated. Please boost for reach!


#AskFedi #AskWritingFedi #Writing #Blogging




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#askfedi, #AskWritingFedi, #writing, #blogging


Every single sound 9.6k upwards is seared into memory taking up valuable mental space!
I’d know something was up if the sounds didn’t follow these predictable patterns 🤣


https://dragonscave.space/@KaraLG84/111079192607346804


#SysAdmin #OldManMemories




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#sysadmin, #OldManMemories


This 👇


“unfortunately social media puts the activist meeting, the bitching session, the public outreach, the group therapy session, the silly blow off some steam gossiping about people private chat, and the group d&d session all in the same place,


and so people mistake, for example, an outpouring of legitimate grief and rage as somehow a public-facing political statement, or a carefully edited and tactical political statement as a reflection of a person’s most deeply held private feelings, etc”


— Devon Price


https://drdevonprice.com/post/724467763916177408/unfortunately-social-media-puts-the-activist




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Here’s what I read last week


  1. A Guide to Writing Mathematics, Dr. Kevin P. Lee
    Everything You Need to Ace Computer Science and Coding in One Big Fat 134. Notebook, Grant Smith, Chris Pearce, Dawn Dupriest & Abby Dening
  2. How to Prove It, Daniel Velleman
  3. The History of English, Episodes 31-40, Kevin Stroud
  4. The Fourth Protocol, Frederick Forsyth
  5. The Deceiver, Frederick Forsyth

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/


#mjbReads #Books #mjbBooks #Reading #mjbReading




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#mjbreads, #books, #mjbbooks, #reading, #mjbreading


Weekly fitness update


https://janusworx.com/fitness/#2023-09-15


#mjbgettingfit




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#mjbgettingfit


i ought to play social media catchup in the evening.
one little matter of interest and i’ve gone down the rabbit hole of researching it and then finding a nuanced take that helps me understand.


Yesterday, it was the fight on here with fediverse block lists and their biases
Today it was all about artists playing guerilla warfare, against entrenched duopolies [1]


One little rabbit hole and 2-3 hours gone. And then I wonder what is happening to my work blocks 😂


Get up, get coffee, get to work is the new motto


1: https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the




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but that thing is important and I just *have* to do it. i just *have* to join up
no. this has not worked well so far.
best to try the other, slower approach now.




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Thoughts after a few days of #TimeBlocking



Here’s to slow, steady progress




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#timeblocking, #focus


Herbert Lui on doing the work and self promotion


“Making good work is like a muscle, one that wears away within days or even hours. The best thing you can do is exercise it every day. While you may publish every day, you don’t need to promote all of it; just the good stuff.”


https://herbertlui.net/an-author-on-both-sides-of-publishing/


#mjbDoTheWork




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#mjbdothework


derb; Script to Create podcast RSS feeds


https://janusworx.com/blog/derb/


#Python #Scripting #mjbWrites




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#python, #scripting, #mjbwrites