I read this sequence almost a year ago. It helped me figure some things out, but I felt like I didn’t get enough reps in—some days I just read the posts and simulated myself doing something instead of actually doing it.
Here’s my plan/experiment this time:
I made it a goal for the past 30 days to read each post in the sequence and reflect, experiment a bit and not hold myself to too high of a standard (basically what I did last year)
Now I’m going to dedicate a portion of my day to really trying the exercises and techniques in each post—doing rather than just simulating. If one technique seems especially fecund, I might spend two days on it
I will post a comment for each day, introspecting and explaining my experiences as openly as possible. (For many reasons: tie me to the mast, social CoZE, etc.)
I came up with 170 bugs this time.
Weirdest bug fix: Switching from wired headphones (while sleeping) to wireless ones.
I need to listen to a podcast in order to fall asleep (a bug in itself), but I shared (pre-covid) a bed with my girlfriend and didn’t want to annoy her with the audio.
I was procrastinating sleeping because I’d get sucked into my phone while picking a podcast, which would often lead me to wake up late for work stressed out and tired.
Since my headphones were wired I’d have to sleep with my phone in my bed, which lead me to stare at it first thing in the morning and use it my entire commute.
Getting wireless headphones enabled me to play a podcast, put my phone in my backpack across the room, and go to sleep with the podcast still playing.
This bug is now obsolete as I moved out of the city during the pandemic, but I’m hoping to be able to fix a few more like this in the next month.
I made an account just for this, having lurked LW for the past year or so—apologies if I break any rules, please let me know.
I read this sequence almost a year ago. It helped me figure some things out, but I felt like I didn’t get enough reps in—some days I just read the posts and simulated myself doing something instead of actually doing it.
Here’s my plan/experiment this time:
I made it a goal for the past 30 days to read each post in the sequence and reflect, experiment a bit and not hold myself to too high of a standard (basically what I did last year)
Now I’m going to dedicate a portion of my day to really trying the exercises and techniques in each post—doing rather than just simulating. If one technique seems especially fecund, I might spend two days on it
I will post a comment for each day, introspecting and explaining my experiences as openly as possible. (For many reasons: tie me to the mast, social CoZE, etc.)
I came up with 170 bugs this time.
Weirdest bug fix: Switching from wired headphones (while sleeping) to wireless ones.
I need to listen to a podcast in order to fall asleep (a bug in itself), but I shared (pre-covid) a bed with my girlfriend and didn’t want to annoy her with the audio.
I was procrastinating sleeping because I’d get sucked into my phone while picking a podcast, which would often lead me to wake up late for work stressed out and tired.
Since my headphones were wired I’d have to sleep with my phone in my bed, which lead me to stare at it first thing in the morning and use it my entire commute.
Getting wireless headphones enabled me to play a podcast, put my phone in my backpack across the room, and go to sleep with the podcast still playing.
This bug is now obsolete as I moved out of the city during the pandemic, but I’m hoping to be able to fix a few more like this in the next month.
I made an account just for this, having lurked LW for the past year or so—apologies if I break any rules, please let me know.