Good morning ☀️ 📷
So, this happened:
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado arstechnica.com
Sounds like a teaser to a movie, if you ask me…
I’m starting my fourth week of morning workouts, and I wanted to write a few thoughts down.
First, I wouldn’t be able to keep up if these workouts weren’t very short. Each “workout” consists of stretches, two (only two) exercises, and meditation.
For stretching, I focus on my back. First, there’s arms against the wall (this video explains it pretty well, especially the second part). Then toe-touches (side to side), then to the floor (well, my rug), with cat-cow for a few repetitions. I repeat this whole thing twice.
For the actual exercises, I just do slow push-ups and then crunches (a combination of straight and side-to-side). Again I repeat it twice, so two sets for stretching and two sets for exercises.
After I’m done with both, I finish up with meditation of five minutes, which at this point is mostly a breathing exercise while looking out the window at the start and then closing my eyes for the rest of the time.
The more “serious” exercises happen sporadically throughout the week in the afternoon. For these, I don’t have a routine yet. That’s what I’m trying to work on next.
Another critical factor in maintaining a routine is to repeat the same exercises in a familiar and simple pattern (this is why doing it every day in the morning works well). Progress in exercises is something that, in my opinion, needs to be completely on hold until there is a routine, and then it comes on its own. If you do a certain number of push-ups, for example, you’ll find that after a couple of weeks it’s easier to push forward automatically and do more. The same is true for everything else.
This is why the key to advancing my afternoon routines (which is a bit longer and a bit more intense) needs to be “docked” into persistence, and I’m trying to figure out what that is. For example, if I had lunch at a fixed period, or if I had an event happening every day at 15:00 or 16:00, it would be helpful, but the nature of my work and life balance means it’s flexible and changing. It’s also not helping that I don’t do these every day (at least not for now), so I need to figure out dedicated workout days.
How I use AI to write, maintaining my voice: curious.port111.com
Reflections on intimacy and alone time
I reflect on past relationships: the importance of personal space and understanding one’s emotional needs for intimacy and solitude at the same time.
Hank Green explains why your DnD campaign will most likely fail if you go for a group of over 3 or 4 people. Science!
A website called “DOGEQUEST” has posted on a searchable map what it claims to be the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of Tesla owners across the United States, and says it will remove the data if an individual proves that they have sold their Tesla. The map also includes the addresses of Tesla dealerships, the rough locations of Tesla superchargers, and the personal information of employees of the Elon Musk-headed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
I’d go as far as to say that it’s good to see something opposing to the DOGE-ish takeover of the government, but not this way. People who own Tesla may or may not be supporters of Musk at the moment, and not everyone can just get up and sell their car. Besides, the information can be outdated, incorrect, or misleading - there’s no way of telling (404 media themselves explain this)
The site’s cursor is a molotov cocktail.
Burn everything down and ask questions later. I understand the anger, but we can do better than this. Left or right, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side. It matters not.
Someone else will always tell you their issue is the most pressing; it’s up to you, if you have the bird’s eye view, to correctly assign it to your time as you deal with everything else. And don’t forget to water your plants.
