I did not write a shortform yesterday, which broke my ~20 day long daily shortform writing streak. Back to it I go, starting a new streak with #89 :)
What do I get out of writing daily shortforms?
I keep a general (though sometimes detailed) log of my daily activities, feelings, thoughts, and experiences which helps me in a few ways: emotional processing, serving as a memory prosthetic, and discussing things I find interesting.
I increase how comfortable writing publicly feels to me.
I practise the art of short blog post writing on a regular basis
I practise consistency. A habit or virtue I wish to strengthen & improve at.
I stay centered, focused, less likely to veer off in some wild direction: deliberate, written out reflection time everyday is immensely helpful!
I’ve struggled with time & prioritization since returning to work on Wednesday. I’m so happy I made time to hangout with my co-organizer for Norfolk Rationalists on Tuesday, we had fun, and I was glad to share some of the huge amount of things that I learned from the organizer’s retreat. I want to meet again soon to share more of that knowledge so we can finish that debriefing, integrate the lessons learned into our plans, and build Norfolk Rationalists into a bigger & better community group that also has a separate productivity focused group (dojo). Similarly, there are so many messages in the organizer’s discord or direct messages I want to reply to or send to people I met, but haven’t had the time yet since returning to work. I suspect I’ll spend a lot of this weekend continuing the debriefing, integrating more lessons learned, and reaching out to so many people from retreat & elsewhere, plus contributing back to the broader pool of knowledge all us organizer’s are building since the retreat.
I’m doing another video related content intake diet: From 29 July, 2022 through 5 August, 2022 I will not watch TV shows or YouTube, nor play video games without scheduling them first and only if during that play session I’ll be playing with friends and hanging out in voice comms with them. I am allowing myself to watch two movies during this time period. Exceptions allowed for Guild of the ROSE video workshop content (if any), work related duties as strictly necessary, and if a friend wants to show me something in-person.
Shortform #89 Consistency Matters
I did not write a shortform yesterday, which broke my ~20 day long daily shortform writing streak. Back to it I go, starting a new streak with #89 :)
What do I get out of writing daily shortforms?
I keep a general (though sometimes detailed) log of my daily activities, feelings, thoughts, and experiences which helps me in a few ways: emotional processing, serving as a memory prosthetic, and discussing things I find interesting.
I increase how comfortable writing publicly feels to me.
I practise the art of short blog post writing on a regular basis
I practise consistency. A habit or virtue I wish to strengthen & improve at.
I stay centered, focused, less likely to veer off in some wild direction: deliberate, written out reflection time everyday is immensely helpful!
I’ve struggled with time & prioritization since returning to work on Wednesday. I’m so happy I made time to hangout with my co-organizer for Norfolk Rationalists on Tuesday, we had fun, and I was glad to share some of the huge amount of things that I learned from the organizer’s retreat. I want to meet again soon to share more of that knowledge so we can finish that debriefing, integrate the lessons learned into our plans, and build Norfolk Rationalists into a bigger & better community group that also has a separate productivity focused group (dojo). Similarly, there are so many messages in the organizer’s discord or direct messages I want to reply to or send to people I met, but haven’t had the time yet since returning to work. I suspect I’ll spend a lot of this weekend continuing the debriefing, integrating more lessons learned, and reaching out to so many people from retreat & elsewhere, plus contributing back to the broader pool of knowledge all us organizer’s are building since the retreat.
I’m doing another video related content intake diet: From 29 July, 2022 through 5 August, 2022 I will not watch TV shows or YouTube, nor play video games without scheduling them first and only if during that play session I’ll be playing with friends and hanging out in voice comms with them. I am allowing myself to watch two movies during this time period. Exceptions allowed for Guild of the ROSE video workshop content (if any), work related duties as strictly necessary, and if a friend wants to show me something in-person.