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The power of daily rituals (2021)

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Re: The power of daily rituals (2021)

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Post by pitched »

spudlyo wrote: post #14

Every morning for the past 14 months or so I've sat down at my desk with a cup of coffee and spent ~20 minutes writing out a page of thoughts in my Hobonichi Techo journal with my trusty Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen. I try to write plainly and honestly about whatever pops into my head, and before I know it, I'm done. It hasn't been super life changing, but I do enjoy doing it. Sometimes during the course of the da…

I do this too but on a laptop. It is more beneficial to use paper but I don’t want readers to think it isn’t incredibly important even without the gear. Like how good running shoes are not important to start running.

Re: The power of daily rituals (2021)

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Post by nebezb »

tokenless wrote: post #9
ryan-duve wrote: post #6

My work ritual every morning: 1. Power on laptop (it is powered off every day at 5 PM). 2. Log into VPN. 3. Log into Okta. 4. Log into AWS accounts, one per container (about 7 or 8). 5. Log into Docker Desktop. 6. Log into AWS CLI to get daily credentials. The whole thing takes about 3-4 minutes. A former colleague referred to this as my "mise en place", or my daily arranging of my working environment. Like the artic…

All that should just happen. Unless it is FedRAMP or something insane like that.

I have set my own cli credentials ttl to 8 hours and require 2FA to refresh. Once daily works fine for me. It all takes ~30 seconds, really.

Re: The power of daily rituals (2021)

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Post by caminante »

rkagerer wrote: post #7
ryan-duve wrote: post #6

My work ritual every morning: 1. Power on laptop (it is powered off every day at 5 PM). 2. Log into VPN. 3. Log into Okta. 4. Log into AWS accounts, one per container (about 7 or 8). 5. Log into Docker Desktop. 6. Log into AWS CLI to get daily credentials. The whole thing takes about 3-4 minutes. A former colleague referred to this as my "mise en place", or my daily arranging of my working environment. Like the artic…

I'm glad it helps you center. But does anyone else think it's crazy how many logons you need to do on a repetitive basis?

I know you mean crazy bad, but only needing 3-4 minutes is crazy good.

Go ask your baker how early they had to arrive to make sure your croissan'wich was ready at 8:23 AM.

Re: The power of daily rituals (2021)

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Post by Topgamer7 »

ryan-duve wrote: post #6

My work ritual every morning: 1. Power on laptop (it is powered off every day at 5 PM). 2. Log into VPN. 3. Log into Okta. 4. Log into AWS accounts, one per container (about 7 or 8). 5. Log into Docker Desktop. 6. Log into AWS CLI to get daily credentials. The whole thing takes about 3-4 minutes. A former colleague referred to this as my "mise en place", or my daily arranging of my working environment. Like the artic…

Hello internet friend. I may be able to make your life easier for 4.

You can use aws vault to open the aws console using roles:

    aws-vault --help
    usage: aws-vault []  [ ...]
    ...
    login [] []
        Generate a login link for the AWS Console.
Which when combined with this plugin: https://github.com/blimmer/zsh-aws-vault

You can just to `avli some-role` and it will pop up in the browser in a new profile.

The only downside here is that you can't combine them into one window.

But it takes the pain out of logging in, and 2 factor, etc.

Re: The power of daily rituals (2021)

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Post by markdown »

candiddevmike wrote: post #2

Show and tell daily helpful rituals? Here's mine: I shower before bed and put out my clothes for the next day before bed. When I wake up, I roll out of bed into a predetermined outfit and not have to waste precious pre-coffee clock cycles picking one out.

Everyone showers before bed so that's not exactly novel. Prepping your clothes for the next day is a good one.

Do you not shower in the morning as well?

Re: The power of daily rituals (2021)

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Post by irishcoffee »

markdown wrote: post #26
candiddevmike wrote: post #2

Show and tell daily helpful rituals? Here's mine: I shower before bed and put out my clothes for the next day before bed. When I wake up, I roll out of bed into a predetermined outfit and not have to waste precious pre-coffee clock cycles picking one out.

Everyone showers before bed so that's not exactly novel. Prepping your clothes for the next day is a good one. Do you not shower in the morning as well?

> Everyone showers before bed so that's not exactly novel.

I hate to break it to you, but this isn’t accurate.

Re: The power of daily rituals (2021)

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Post by goodmythical »

pitched wrote: post #21
spudlyo wrote: post #14

Every morning for the past 14 months or so I've sat down at my desk with a cup of coffee and spent ~20 minutes writing out a page of thoughts in my Hobonichi Techo journal with my trusty Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen. I try to write plainly and honestly about whatever pops into my head, and before I know it, I'm done. It hasn't been super life changing, but I do enjoy doing it. Sometimes during the course of the da…

I do this too but on a laptop. It is more beneficial to use paper but I don’t want readers to think it isn’t incredibly important even without the gear. Like how good running shoes are not important to start running.

I was honestly just thinking the same thing. Like...damn, why is OP advertising such expensive gear to people who might want to just try something?

You can do exactly the same thing with a mead spiral bound and a ticonderoga pencil...

Or text notes on an existing device

Or audio notes on an existing device

Or for the price OP is advertising, get a whole drawing tablet to plug in

Or for the price OP is advertising, get a used android tablet

There are both cheaper options and, to me, better options that are also cheaper as they offer search, cross linking, algorithmic analysis (what have I been writing about lately, what have I stopped writing about), and easy duplication so that I don't lose my notes.

Personally, I use an obisidan vault in a cloud folder...easy duplication on any device, easy review, easy search, easy cross reference...

To do what I do on with my notes with a pen and paper, I'd be spending half of my time indexing and notating rather than producing results driven by the notes...which, I guess is valid if the entire goal is spending time with your notes, but I just personally feel like I've got to get something out of the process other than staring at shit I used to think about.

For instance, on paper, I'd have to underline or otherwise mark key words and maintain a live index in order to find: what's been worrying me lately, what was that dream that one night, what's my second most common topic of thought...and a million other things. Whereas in reviewing my obsidian vault all of those things are at most 30 seconds away, and I didn't have to do any work on top of writing the notes to get that functionality.

Re: The power of daily rituals (2021)

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Post by goodmythical »

irishcoffee wrote: post #27
markdown wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone showers before bed so that's not exactly novel. Prepping your clothes for the next day is a good one. Do you not shower in the morning as well?

> Everyone showers before bed so that's not exactly novel. I hate to break it to you, but this isn’t accurate.

don't tell them some people:

only shower in the morning

shower infrequently

only shower "when dirty"

don't shower

don't have showers

Might blow their whole worldview.

Re: The power of daily rituals (2021)

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Post by bee_rider »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #23

I always feel a little jealous of religious people when they do these things. I guess us secularised, atomised people should just make our own.

I strongly suspect it is just “obviously alive” things that have any sort of subjective experience. But we can’t really prove a negative, so we can thank our coffee machine spirits as a ritual, if we want.
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