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https://spokengoods.com/ - a podcast summary site that also pulls out product mentions. I kept forgetting which books were mentioned while I was out doing stuff.

Feeling Good and/or Feeling Great by David Burns. It should be on everyone's bookshelf, imho. It has the exact step by step process that you're looking for.

Continuing hacking on my podcast summarizer, https://spokengoods.com/

I would focus on the games first, and then spin up the LLC if one of them takes off. Otherwise you just have the maintenance and fees of the LLC which is a distraction.

Be an organ donor. Donate blood on a regular basis. Skeptoid had a podcast today that talks about blood donation with some interesting tidbits about shelf life of platelets and who…

https://spokengoods.com - Podcast summarization and organic product mention extraction.

Some time ago, I wrote a few stories along these lines mostly for fun. https://www.hardmode.app/ I'm quite aware of survivorship bias, and it is a theme I had thought about but was…

Consider activities that broaden your perspective, e.g. reading a biography or travel somewhere. Consider journaling deeply about areas that trouble you, whether recent or distant …

When and how long was your last vacation?

Next time try 8 hours on an Amtrak Northeast Corridor train in business class over Thanksgiving :)

During this period of tech layoffs I just wanted to highlight some research done 30 years ago which is part of a larger body of research around expressive writing. My apologies for…

I loved the book Founders at Work when it came out in 2007. Is there an equivalent today with more recent stories and interviews? I know there are plenty of one-off interviews with…

Sample size of 1, but my blog still isn't showing up in Google after launching almost a month ago. Bing and DuckDuckGo do have it.

Pretty much everyone in a developed country. Just zoom out your time perspective. I'll go ahead and say paramedics, but there are examples all over the place.

Language is not precise, and companies define their roles differently for a variety of reasons, including the nature of the business each company is in. I'll take a stab though. In…

I wrote a simple stopwatch menu bar app called Mini Time Tracker [1] for Mac. I use it to track how much time I do a single thing, e.g. coding. It's like pomodoro in reverse and on…

You might find the concept of Ikigai interesting. Also, Arthur C. Brooks recently wrote a book, From Strength to Strength. I think his audience skews slightly older than you, but i…

What if you turned it from a solitary activity to a pair activity. e.g. ask a trusted peer to take notes as you explain the design of your system with whiteboard. Then clean up the…

A journaling app based on the body of research around personal writing and a newsletter to go along with it.

The Body Keeps the Score lists a variety of therapies, and trigger warning, contains details about traumas of people the author has interviewed. Good luck.

`weather` into google works fine for basic stuff. wunderground.com for hourly rain forecasts, for when I want to keep an eye on potential flooding around my house.

I actually enjoy the process of re-reading and editing. It takes me days as well and I am a native speaker! Maybe just shoot for good and not perfect. Limit yourself to one re-read…

Try timing how much actual work you do each day. Track it. Also time procrastination and track. Then increase first number while decreasing second number. Just try to beat the prev…

Yes, I was a PM.