Today's high will be 80 degrees Fahrenheit; by next Wednesday we will have a high of 105 degrees Fahrenheit 1. Looks like stuff is heating up! 2 As the summer heats rolls around, will people readily accept the "new normal" of locked-in life as they wish to stay where the …
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It is trashcan pickup day where I am, which means walking around outside in circles is less pleasant. Sometimes I have to step off the sidewalk or otherwise navigate around an obstructing trashcan. Sometimes I have to move to dodge some stink. On top of that, there are leaf blowers …
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The morning air is refreshing—getting up and moving (location) makes stuff feel better. Staying in the same room, even if doing exercises like pushups and stuff, is not the same as using one's feet to move about. The explainers of the world may speak of Vitamin D or Serotonin …
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Today's topic is making progress learning technical skills. By "technical" here I am talking about skills where there is a clear, measurable way to tell how some result is better or worse.
For instance, drawing realistically—or emulating the style of a particular artist—may be viewed as a technical …
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This morning I was going through my inbox for a not-used-so-much email account. I hadn't cleaned out this inbox for a month or two so. On this email account I'm subscribed to some newsletter things, so I was able to take a step back and view how the whole "COVID-19 …
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This crisp morning air greets me as I clean out some coffee grounds from yesterday and prepare a new pot of coffee for today.
"Siberia"
There is a corner of the yard in the place I am renting which I call Siberia. When I first moved to that location, there …
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This morning at eight something AM I decided to drive out a bit to deposit a check. Though I didn't really have to drive, I figure it is useful to make sure my car starts at least once every couple weeks; I haven't been outside of a small, less than …
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Today I'm going to return to a psychological/philosophical topic: words and thinking. I'll elaborate more below, but the main way this all relates to COVID-19 is that the primary way most of us understand what's going on is through words.
Words are great for lots of things, but they …
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When discussing any data, we must make assumptions about the validity of the data. Sometimes, this is pretty concrete. For example, if you manage a café, you might have counts of how many coffees you sell each day. This can help you answer questions such as how many pounds of …
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Today's topic is accountability as motivation. Specifically, I'll be looking at how the tough-times of COVID-19 lock-in have weakened many accountability mechanisms that keep many of us going day-to-day. Then, I'll go into some strategies I've successfully used to keep myself motivated and working hard. My goal here is to …
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