TwitterDayOff
- I have some inclincation to have an even more disconnected day once a week too (Sunday?)
maybe not "zero screens" although that would have appeal in an adequate in-person social context
but perhaps zero internet? can read+write on computer, but no convos and no
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February 23rd, 2021
- found myself idly thinking of a good magic act, that would involve a reference to the psych studies showing that when kids are young, they can't handle conservation of volume of liquids, and (separately but relatedly) they think you have more liquid if you pour it from a short stout glass to a tall skinny one
- and using some various physical trickeries
- whether
- geometric (weirdly shaped glasses that have nonobvious thicknesses)
- optical (lens shit)
- hiding liquid somewhere (a la infinite soup bowl)
- chemical (maybe there's a little powder that could react with a liquid to make something either have more volume or just change in color in a way that seems to affect size)
- one could get grownups to have similar confusions as little kids
- and with the right framing this could be a very funny act
- fascinating to see which basic concepts don't have a common iconography associated with them
- eg willpower, why, desire
February 16th, 2021
- #TwitterDayOff is feeling quite liberating. more space to ask what I really want to do
January 29th, 2021
- things maybe #2tweet from this #TwitterDayOff
- Among Us memes are affecting my programming. I was like "wait, this line sus"
- random thought: I wonder if there's a safe or safe-ish way to build a male to male "suicide cord", if you somehow make it so that the middle circuit isn't actually completed unless some condition is fulfilled like "there's x amount of pressure at 3 points on the surface that the plugs stick out of"
- oh wait, no, there's not!
- because if you plug the female end of xmas lights into this hypothetical thing, no matter how safe "it" is, there is now an exposed hot male end of the suicide cord, as illustrated here:
- my original idea is still good though, which is something that looks like a suicide cord (though explains on the packaging that it's not) but actually there is no connection between the respective ends and when you plug it in it just plays xmas carols
January 26th, 2021
- Thoughts I didn't tweet during #TwitterDayOff #2tweet
- the experience of interacting with my cousin's dog is very different now that I've learned a lot more about attachment and limbic regulation & the emotional brain. I feel like I basically get him and his needs, and he's just very down to be comforted when he gets spooked.
- Something here about nonverbal consent and "I pet myself". He can't say "yes" or "no", or ask for things to be different, but I can pay attention to whether he's vibing with what I'm doing, and what his control systems seem to want.
- <append to #TwitterDayOff thread a tweet saying>
- also have a place to put tweet ideas!
- also decide in advance if checking twitter messages is okay (I recommend at least trying not that) and if you do intend to do that I recommend <these notification-dulling styles/scripts>
- sometimes I practice Inadvertent Fasting
- > we are but babes suckling the milky way
- > idk who needs to hear this but:
it's not all in your head
literally, not even figments of your imagination are all in your head. reality is way too intertwingled for that. - > "One marshmallow now is *infinitely* better than two marshmallows in 10 minutes," Tommy said hyperbolically.
- How many of your ancestors can you name off the top of your head? (Uncles & cousins don't count)
How many could you name with access to your own files? (Literally check, or guess)
How many do you think you could enumerate if you got to ask all of your living relatives? - > Can you imagine not having the word "fun" and having to say the word "amusement" instead? This is the tragic reality french speakers are living with EVERY. DAY.
(Sure, it has different connotations than in English, but let's face it: the word amusement is way less fun.) - Every time I send an emoji in gmail, it turns into a godawful ugly blob... and every time, I submit a bug report to the gmail team. Embarrassing that their bureaucracy can't get those removed even though their own guidelines no longer approve of them.
- You've seen @visakanv at army bootcamp, but have you seen.... preteen Malcolm as an air cadet?
- I'm impressed on my #TwitterDayOff by how many of these tweets I'm writing in Roam to send later are between 250 and 280 characters. I guess I know the medium pretty precisely at this point!
- I'm doing a single-tasking experiment today as part of #TwitterDayOff, and want to take notes here
- < pull in init notes from CoTh cards >
- @ 11:26 - just finished a shower in which I began reworking a song I'd started writing almost 9 years ago! so juicy!
- and the song is called Breathe for a Minute ♫ and it's actually kind of about single-tasking
- and I'm noticing that, as part of the single-tasking workflow, I want to mark complete having done what I did on the song in the shower
- that was its own thing, it's done, fuckyeah
- marking it as complete allows me to feel WAY more present journalling here
- and then I maybe want to add an additional intention immediately that is like "write the lyrics somewhere" or "record a demo"
- (oh, realizing I hadn't actually added "8,3) take notes on single-tasking workflow", ie what I'm doing now, to my intentions. okay, done)
- there's an interesting Intend design question here actually, which is about a way to have like, progress marks/stamps on intentions, that are like, in some sense complete but you could still do more of them
- because it's not like I now want to mark this intention as complete, since I still intend to do more, but I want
- the satisfaction of logging a thing
- that intention to be complete when I get to my outcomes
- for now I think I'll use sandpiles for this, although it doesn't get that intention to be complete when I get to my outcomes
- I guess I could experimentally actually mark it complete then uncomplete it to set it as next action
- (whoa, how would it feel if "next action" were instead called "current action" or "on deck" or "right now" or something? 😮)
- might encourage people to use it in a more single-tasking way
- and there's ofc a question of like, am I gonna put "make lunch", "eat lunch" on there? I probably will today, but that would feel like noise most days - there needs to be a placeholder intention or even a placeholder mode or something
- anyway, I'm going to try this completion thing!
- @ 12:32 - man, single-tasking does not go well with having notifications of any kind turned on. I mean, I knew this, but seriously.
- ...update from a bit later: I ended up having some chats, some of which were single-task-ish though I didn't actually put the intention in Complice til after
- and some of them were like, a thing I was half-doing while the other half was writing that I did have as my Complice next action
- so yeah