• Reading still brings me joy

  • Reading together is a much better experience. It makes difficult books easier to stick with.

  • If pen & paper is something I come back to any time I’m overwhelmed, maybe it’s best to just stick to pen and paper always

  • Especially if new stationary brings me so much JOY.

  • Social networks are a platform. You’d never choose to stand on an unstable platform IRL, why stand on one online?

  • Everyone needs to have their own website

  • RSS is still low-key the best thing about the internet.

  • Newsletters and knowing the emails of your friends is a close second.

  • It’s possible to get used to the worst things.

  • It’s important to continue to work to make them better.

  • The only two options are to accept or to change.

  • Knowing what you can change makes it easier.

  • Journaling helps

  • Morning pages help.

  • None of this helps as much as therapy or taking the necessary medications.

  • The “peak” of the internet was always the “small community” aspect of it. Forums. Blog comment sections. Local meetups. The closest thing that exists now is Mastodon, I think.

  • Them Apple products with the M123 chips are really the best things ever. Haven’t experienced this much joy using a new product since my first iPod Nano.

  • A lesson I’ve learned but not really “internalized” yet is that a little work every day really is better than lots of “thinking” and then one crazy sprint to get it all done last moment.

  • Looking for a new job is fucking scary and takes forever. (and I’m one of the lucky ones)

  • Kindle is the best way to read for me.

  • My ideal number of “books to read at the same time” is between 4 and 5. Any less than that and I get bored. Any more than that and I get overwhelmed.

  • You know what’s better than sex? A really good book.

  • Knowing the truth when everyone around you believes lies is worse than not knowing anything at all.

  • It’s also better, but I’m not sure that in the end it’s a net positive for me, personally.

  • Depending on how you count there are either six or seven types of rest and you have to make sure you’re “hitting” each type to actually get rest.

  • You don’t really “own” anything digital that you buy unless you take the kinds of steps that some jurisdictions deem illegal.

  • L-Theanine to help with coffee jitters

  • The whole “different” generations thing is booooooriiiiiing because I feel like there are more similarities than differences and focusing too much on the differences is just cringey either way (but more so when the olds comment on the youths).

  • Future developments notwithstanding, AI looks like it’s going to do more harm than good.

  • Luddites aren’t the same thing as the amish. They’re not against all technology — they’re against harmful technology.

  • I accept that twitter has always sucked in the “abusive relationship” kind of way.

  • Being on twitter now is just… saying to yourself that you don’t deserve to be happy.

  • This one isn’t 100%, but living with two cats is better than living with one cat, but I think two is the cutoff.

  • Old stuff that withstood the test of time (like, stuff that’s before my time and even before my parents’ time) is good. A lot of the “new stuff” we’re seeing now costs more than the benefits that it brings.

  • Do not sync Obsidian using iCloud. It makes shit slow.

  • Ember Mugs, dude!

  • If you’re struggling on making something long, make something short instead

  • If you don’t drink enough water during the day you should try getting a SodaStream.

  • Everyone could benefit from a really good pair of headphones with noise cancellation.

  • Air out your room before going to sleep and try to keep the temperature low (and the covers warm). 10x improvement in sleep quality.

  • Get a good pillow.

  • Fountain pens rock.

  • As much as I hate it, I think time blocking kinda works for me.

Getting Things Done is the foundation of all good productivity systems. Skip all other “productivity” books/videos/lectures and just read that.

  • The fact that Adobe is a subscription-based service is stupid. I got all the Apple apps for the price of one year of subscribing and it does 99% of what needs to be done.
  • You gotta have soup at least once a week.
  • The more I look around the less crazy the preper people seem to me.
  • If you’re not subbing to YouTube Premium, what are you doing? Best bang for the buck in the world.
  • Everyone needs to learn how to use torrents. Not for piracy reasons… but… for reasons.
  • “It’s about the friends you make along the way.”
  • Getting the ability you have to influence/improve your local community will be one of the most rewarding things you can strive for.
  • The propaganda machines (plural) are working overtime right now, and it’ll only get worse in 2024. Media literacy is not a “nice to have” — it’s basically a prerequisite for survival.