I don’t have strong takes on the “idiot” stylistic choice; introspectively it feels fun and it takes the bite out of my self-flagellations when I notice leaving value on the floor. I won’t claim to have any empirical support that this actually works better or worse for me.
I mostly like this post for the advice. Concretely, after reading it:
I’ve bought copies of exercise equipment I like for my parents’ house so that when I am exercising relatively regularly, I don’t break a streak by visiting them.
I own two laptops, two kindles, have multiple chargers (some of which live in travel bags so I always have them)
I often invoke this when deciding whether to try an experimental purchase that might make my life better, but is a little pricey.
Rebought multi-colour pens, which tend to be useful for me for a stretch, and I don’t consider rebuying them when they might be useful again.
Bought an external battery.
That collection feels like it was probably net-positive.
Some of the things that Mark suggests have been really good for me but I already did them (have a password manager, bright rooms). There are some I disagree with, so haven’t (re)tried after reading it (drink lots of water, summarize things you’ve read, reliably sleep 6-9 hours a night (on the margin, for me)). And then there are some that seem likely good that I haven’t tried.
I don’t have strong takes on the “idiot” stylistic choice; introspectively it feels fun and it takes the bite out of my self-flagellations when I notice leaving value on the floor. I won’t claim to have any empirical support that this actually works better or worse for me.
I mostly like this post for the advice. Concretely, after reading it:
I’ve bought copies of exercise equipment I like for my parents’ house so that when I am exercising relatively regularly, I don’t break a streak by visiting them.
I own two laptops, two kindles, have multiple chargers (some of which live in travel bags so I always have them)
I often invoke this when deciding whether to try an experimental purchase that might make my life better, but is a little pricey.
Rebought multi-colour pens, which tend to be useful for me for a stretch, and I don’t consider rebuying them when they might be useful again.
Bought an external battery.
That collection feels like it was probably net-positive.
Some of the things that Mark suggests have been really good for me but I already did them (have a password manager, bright rooms). There are some I disagree with, so haven’t (re)tried after reading it (drink lots of water, summarize things you’ve read, reliably sleep 6-9 hours a night (on the margin, for me)). And then there are some that seem likely good that I haven’t tried.