Shortform #57 Some Adjustments; Hammertime Days 3 (TAPs) and 4 (Design)
Yesterday was a day of travel, noticing the inadequacy and lack of public spaces, and happily hanging out with friends I haven’t seen in awhile.
Today was quite nice, I don’t particularly enjoy travel days so it was pleasant sleeping in a small bit and not having to deal with travel and instead go spend time around city with friends. I’ve noticed that despite being on vacation, I really want to spend time working and getting things done, and am frustrated that some of the improvement areas from Hammertime benefit particularly from being in one’s domicile and the TAPs and Design lessons in particular don’t lend themselves well to trying to practice when out of town and not in one’s own space. I’ve brought this up with my friends and they feel similarly regarding doing work, they (and myself) want to spend most of the day enjoying our vacation time but also reserve a few hours to get things done, so we’ll start doing that.
I finished sorting, categorizing, and otherwise adding descriptions or context to all the bugs on my bug list! I will reevaluate that list tomorrow and determine what bugs are well suited to fixing or making progress against while one is out of town and not in their own space, i.e. the more mental types of bugs I guess, and maybe ones to do with how I use computers.
Reading ahead for tomorrow’s Hammertime—Comfort Zone Expansion (CoZE), I think the setting a timer and figuring out things I don’t even consider doing, things that scare me, and so on will be very doable practice tomorrow. Definitely should be able to do something from the set a 20 minute timer section and DO the scary thing, I’ll get at least one of those done.
An interesting part of being on vacation is that my media diet is almost automatically enforced because my friends and I go out and do things all day and also the friend we’re staying with doesn’t have a TV, plus we’re not spending too much time using computers or being distracted by phones, it’s nice.
I’m still noticing thoughts about legibility popping up in my mind fairly regularly, and I’m enjoying thinking about the topic further. It seems like the more I produce, the more legible I become to myself, but also the more legible the world becomes to me, and vice versa in a mutually beneficial way. Legible as in: I now have more concrete models and specific examples + ideas to refer to regarding specific thing or even some general thing that exists in reality, including my own self, mental states, emotions, desires, strengths, weaknesses, etc. I think I will look further into quantified self research and practices once I return from vacation, that seems like a good source for increasing legibility of my self with important benefits. I will also figure out more kinds of work and creative things to produce, because engaging with the world and creating something new or at minimum taking some sort of deliberate focused action increases legibility too. I’m not willing to fully endorse legibility as being absurdly powerful and important, but I’m leaning in that direction and am enjoying exploring this more; I wonder what I could exploit because of legibility? (i.e. how much does the idea of legibility pay rent and/or legibility of some specific thing in reality pay rent?)
Go forth and illuminate reality, make more things legible, see how that feels and helps.
Shortform #57 Some Adjustments; Hammertime Days 3 (TAPs) and 4 (Design)
Yesterday was a day of travel, noticing the inadequacy and lack of public spaces, and happily hanging out with friends I haven’t seen in awhile.
Today was quite nice, I don’t particularly enjoy travel days so it was pleasant sleeping in a small bit and not having to deal with travel and instead go spend time around city with friends. I’ve noticed that despite being on vacation, I really want to spend time working and getting things done, and am frustrated that some of the improvement areas from Hammertime benefit particularly from being in one’s domicile and the TAPs and Design lessons in particular don’t lend themselves well to trying to practice when out of town and not in one’s own space. I’ve brought this up with my friends and they feel similarly regarding doing work, they (and myself) want to spend most of the day enjoying our vacation time but also reserve a few hours to get things done, so we’ll start doing that.
I finished sorting, categorizing, and otherwise adding descriptions or context to all the bugs on my bug list! I will reevaluate that list tomorrow and determine what bugs are well suited to fixing or making progress against while one is out of town and not in their own space, i.e. the more mental types of bugs I guess, and maybe ones to do with how I use computers.
Reading ahead for tomorrow’s Hammertime—Comfort Zone Expansion (CoZE), I think the setting a timer and figuring out things I don’t even consider doing, things that scare me, and so on will be very doable practice tomorrow. Definitely should be able to do something from the set a 20 minute timer section and DO the scary thing, I’ll get at least one of those done.
An interesting part of being on vacation is that my media diet is almost automatically enforced because my friends and I go out and do things all day and also the friend we’re staying with doesn’t have a TV, plus we’re not spending too much time using computers or being distracted by phones, it’s nice.
I’m still noticing thoughts about legibility popping up in my mind fairly regularly, and I’m enjoying thinking about the topic further. It seems like the more I produce, the more legible I become to myself, but also the more legible the world becomes to me, and vice versa in a mutually beneficial way. Legible as in: I now have more concrete models and specific examples + ideas to refer to regarding specific thing or even some general thing that exists in reality, including my own self, mental states, emotions, desires, strengths, weaknesses, etc. I think I will look further into quantified self research and practices once I return from vacation, that seems like a good source for increasing legibility of my self with important benefits. I will also figure out more kinds of work and creative things to produce, because engaging with the world and creating something new or at minimum taking some sort of deliberate focused action increases legibility too. I’m not willing to fully endorse legibility as being absurdly powerful and important, but I’m leaning in that direction and am enjoying exploring this more; I wonder what I could exploit because of legibility? (i.e. how much does the idea of legibility pay rent and/or legibility of some specific thing in reality pay rent?)
Go forth and illuminate reality, make more things legible, see how that feels and helps.
Cheers,
Willa