My consume vs produce ratio is not well balanced, I consume dramatically more media, information, entertainment, and other such things compared to what I produce. How can I even notice let alone refine my own thoughts and opinions amidst the ruckus and maelstrom of external inputs rummaging around my mind constantly? Furthermore, many if not most of those external inputs don’t actually pay rent, though there are (and in some ways quite notable) exceptions (e.g. what I learned reading The Sequences).
In response to this problem, I am altering my media consumption “diet” to restrict non-deliberate consumption and increase deliberate, focused, helpful consumption plus increase conscious production efforts to generate significantly more outputs / products than I do now.
These efforts should help me notice and cultivate my “voice”, and give voice to myself. Developing my thoughts into refined ideas and producing them is highly aligned with my interests, goals, and more, so I’m excited for this! (note to self: the actual methods for how I do these things and what I actually do, plus what my successes and failures turn out to be are good source material for two posts: 1 post detailing the plan and effort and a 2nd post detailing successes and failures; I think writing those two posts will beneficially effect my structuring of this effort, increase my likelihood of follow-through, and provide myself with useful analytics after the fact to reflect on; others who read the two posts may find some benefit too)
I am taking my website offline to undergo maintenance and possibly switch hosting providers so that the site is more aligned with how I want to use it and easier to push content out to, and hopefully be cheaper to operate. The present setup is WordPress on AWS Lightsail, and I don’t like the experience of using + maintaining WordPress, don’t want to continue with AWS Lightsail as my hosting provider, and think that a different website CMS or generator would work better for me than WordPress does. This effort will impact my choices for hosting a second soon-ish to be announced website where I will produce exciting and good outputs in a field I care deeply about and am pursuing as a career.
It has been ~2 weeks or so since receiving my second Pfizer vaccine shot, so while I still wear a mask where mandated, or seems generally sensible and/or low cost/effort, I’m returning back to normal with regards to hanging out with people IRL since there doesn’t seem much reason not to do so once fully vaccinated. This has had an immediate and greatly positive effect on my mood and general happiness. Fuck quarantining and not being able to see people, that was a terrible experience. I went axe throwing last night, and that was an amazing and delightful experience! So Much Fun :)
I’ve started CrossFit! I’m only a few classes in, but wow am I loving it. Attending a class has a ridiculously highly positive impact on my mood and well-being for the day and increases my self-confidence. I am not presently self-motivated enough to exercise by myself on a regular basis, so going to CrossFit classes solves my “doesn’t consistently exercise” problem quite nicely.
I’m committing to attending CrossFit classes three times per week at a minimum, and because it seems helpful to pre-commit when I’ll attend on a given week, I’ll do that now:
I updated my calendar for each day based on class time and likelihood of attending. Barring genuinely excessive soreness or injury potentials, I’ll generally aim to do 4 or 5 classes per week with 3 classes as my baseline mandatory attendance rate.
It’s good to develop a voice and voice it, here we go!
Shortform #50 Voicing Voice
My consume vs produce ratio is not well balanced, I consume dramatically more media, information, entertainment, and other such things compared to what I produce. How can I even notice let alone refine my own thoughts and opinions amidst the ruckus and maelstrom of external inputs rummaging around my mind constantly? Furthermore, many if not most of those external inputs don’t actually pay rent, though there are (and in some ways quite notable) exceptions (e.g. what I learned reading The Sequences).
In response to this problem, I am altering my media consumption “diet” to restrict non-deliberate consumption and increase deliberate, focused, helpful consumption plus increase conscious production efforts to generate significantly more outputs / products than I do now.
These efforts should help me notice and cultivate my “voice”, and give voice to myself. Developing my thoughts into refined ideas and producing them is highly aligned with my interests, goals, and more, so I’m excited for this! (note to self: the actual methods for how I do these things and what I actually do, plus what my successes and failures turn out to be are good source material for two posts: 1 post detailing the plan and effort and a 2nd post detailing successes and failures; I think writing those two posts will beneficially effect my structuring of this effort, increase my likelihood of follow-through, and provide myself with useful analytics after the fact to reflect on; others who read the two posts may find some benefit too)
I am taking my website offline to undergo maintenance and possibly switch hosting providers so that the site is more aligned with how I want to use it and easier to push content out to, and hopefully be cheaper to operate. The present setup is WordPress on AWS Lightsail, and I don’t like the experience of using + maintaining WordPress, don’t want to continue with AWS Lightsail as my hosting provider, and think that a different website CMS or generator would work better for me than WordPress does. This effort will impact my choices for hosting a second soon-ish to be announced website where I will produce exciting and good outputs in a field I care deeply about and am pursuing as a career.
It has been ~2 weeks or so since receiving my second Pfizer vaccine shot, so while I still wear a mask where mandated, or seems generally sensible and/or low cost/effort, I’m returning back to normal with regards to hanging out with people IRL since there doesn’t seem much reason not to do so once fully vaccinated. This has had an immediate and greatly positive effect on my mood and general happiness. Fuck quarantining and not being able to see people, that was a terrible experience. I went axe throwing last night, and that was an amazing and delightful experience! So Much Fun :)
I’ve started CrossFit! I’m only a few classes in, but wow am I loving it. Attending a class has a ridiculously highly positive impact on my mood and well-being for the day and increases my self-confidence. I am not presently self-motivated enough to exercise by myself on a regular basis, so going to CrossFit classes solves my “doesn’t consistently exercise” problem quite nicely. I’m committing to attending CrossFit classes three times per week at a minimum, and because it seems helpful to pre-commit when I’ll attend on a given week, I’ll do that now:
17 - Likelihood Low; 18 - Definitely; 19 - Likelihood High; 20 - Definitely; 21 - Neutral; 22 - Definitely
I updated my calendar for each day based on class time and likelihood of attending. Barring genuinely excessive soreness or injury potentials, I’ll generally aim to do 4 or 5 classes per week with 3 classes as my baseline mandatory attendance rate.
It’s good to develop a voice and voice it, here we go!
Cheers,
Willa