What I Did & What I Learned This is a story of domestic violence. I never thought it would be part of my life after I escaped my childhood, but it has come back after nearly 20 years of dormancy. This is a long story, and I don’t think it’s possible to pare it down […]
2024-09-04 A Felony Postmortem
What I Did FRONT-END – I’ve now made a few neat little essays: I’m particularly proud of the networks essay I’ve been chewing on. BACK-END – I reorganized what I have left. Things have now simmered from manic anxiety into a type of flow. What I Learned I have wallowed in a state of incessant, […]
2024-08-12 The Value of Devaluation
What I Did Well, I’ve updated my toolbox to conform to my present set of essays. I’ve also edited through half of my portfolio site here and the AdequateLife essays. What I Learned On the mental level, our lives are an incessant dopamine flow. We engage in activities that we interpret as having significance, the […]
2024-08-02 Dopamine Privilege
What I Did I can finally say I’ve paid off all my technical debt. This may be the largest intermediate-stage project I’ve ever done without it creating any directly observable output. The consequences of this project have not paid out for me yet. I have had to fight multiple existential battles the past few weeks, […]
2024-07-14 Obsessive Deficient Attention Disorder
What I Did More tedium, more misery. However, I can say that I’ve successfully wiped out the most terrifying portion of my project: the Unknown-I-Don’t-Know-What-I’ll-Do-With-This pile. Most notably, I ran across this particular vast repository of information. Parsing it has been a stress test of my current system, and has yielded me quite a bit […]
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2024-06-16 Momentum Mori
What I Did Pounded my head into a big pile of not-sure-these-piles-are-big-hoo-boy-I-don’t-want-to-do-them elements. I also grouped the files into 30-file folders. More marching along, but I’m making headway. What I Learned Momentum is difficult to maintain, but even harder to regain. After my vacation, it’s been absolute torture getting back on track. I’m barely getting […]
2024-06-04 Walden, Waldout
What I Did I went on vacation, so not much done relative to other updates. However, there’s still value in basic maintenance throughout each day. More on that in the next section. More technical debt payments. I did use the time to divide-and-conquer the worst part of the pile. What I Learned Vacations are overrated, […]
2024-05-16 Tribalism -> Decay
What I Did More technical debt payments. Nothing new to report there. It gets boring at times. I’m also slowly creating a new workstation in preparation for an upcoming trip. Also nothing exciting to talk about there. What I Learned What is exciting to talk about is a new discovery of how societies break apart. […]
2024-05-07 The Technical Debt Snowball
What I Did I’ve been atomizing the groups into their respective domains. It’s tedious work, but I’ve been learning to enjoy it, especially after my Technical Debt Snowball (more in the next section). Plenty of drudgery, nothing interesting to talk about, though I was able to add actionable TheoLogos reading list items instead of letting […]
2024-04-24 Someone Stole What I Stole
I have a severe love of order. This post defies that order, since I’ve been blasting through things recently and wanted to post about it. I told myself I’d do it twice a month. But, it’s my blog, and nobody says I can’t be sporadic, so here we go. What I Did Working through more […]