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You don't need to solve whats going on around you, just whatever works for you. The fact your chose the word "coping" says more about your mindset than those you're generalizing about.
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Now it's your turn, comrade. Share your effective revolutionary strategy in more detail than "collective action." I've posted about mine here and there on this forum, it's a perfectly valid place for it.
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> focused hard for a day on the wrong thing Entirely depends on what the author wanted to focus on. Who are we to say what is the right or wrong thing to focus on?
I built my whole career on focusing on the wrong thing. In fact, focusing on the right thing makes me slow down, struggle, and get bogged down with frustration. I still learn 10+x faster when focusing on the wrong thing, and after two decades of this, I now know I have to regularly focus on the wrong thing with passion - those are the moments I pick up knowledge and experience that, few months to years later, people…
This is an awesome setup. I like it, good job. That said, I do think there's a bit of irony to solving your "paying attention to writing" problem by setting up your OS from scratch, choosing to swap out the default networking stack, installing a novel flavor of your preferred text editor because you're "trying to get to know it a bit more," customizing your battery readouts, tweaking the login sequence, and then, aft…
It it reminds me of a lot of friends who wanted to "start blogging" and their first step was writing a new static site system from scratch.
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Paper notebook. I wouldn’t recommend loose sheets of paper. :) After 15 years of writing notes on loose sheets I would start differently :) Go Tim Ferris way - notebook where the first page is left for the table of contents, and number all even-numbered pages as first step.
My thoughts are so all over the place that I've settled on 3x5 note cards. It also makes the transition to the computer much easier, because I can re-arrange them in a way that is somewhat organized before taking a picture that gets transcribed
This reads like someone with ADHD took Adderall and accidentally focused hard for a day on the wrong thing. It has happened to me. I guess if this writerdeck works persistently for many projects then fine. But if every 2 projects the writerdeck gets revamped then it seems like a way to get a dopamine hit or distract ones self. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't seem like it's a net benefit in terms of focus.
What a strangely hostile thing to say to somebody's earnest post about their setup.
If I feel like I have too many things to do, I can end up installing all sorts of todo list apps instead of doing the things. When I feel like a need a nap, I look up optimal nap times, end up reading stuff and then realising I missed the window I could have had a nap in.
I've set up vimwiki and loads of other note taking type apps (or knowledge management apps as they are often called now) and I export my notes from one system into another, and forget to use it.
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What a strangely hostile thing to say to somebody's earnest post about their setup.
Well if it's strangely hostile I'm sorry but "I need to focus on writing so I spent a few days stripping down a Linux distro" seems pretty disconnected. I mean it's a fun project! But it really reminds me of something I would do that isn't entirely positive.
The reason it feels hostile is because you led with a joke about the whole thing being a big mistake, but also that the author wrote about a thing they built to solve a problem they had and ended their post by saying that it worked, and you've popped up to pitch that it might not work.
Anybody else wonder how the screenshots were taken?
I think Veronica setup an identical demo copy in a VM and thus could easily screenshot the VM.
This is an awesome setup. I like it, good job. That said, I do think there's a bit of irony to solving your "paying attention to writing" problem by setting up your OS from scratch, choosing to swap out the default networking stack, installing a novel flavor of your preferred text editor because you're "trying to get to know it a bit more," customizing your battery readouts, tweaking the login sequence, and then, aft…
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I went with paper and pen precisely because there was always more I wanted to do with my computer work flow.
When I need to write something, and I have a computer, and something is inconvenient, I can quickly (well, within minutes, maybe 30 of them) alter it to my liking, and return to writing. When I only have a pen and paper (which I used extensively for writing at school), many things may be inconvenient, but there's no way to fix it. This may turn into a source of a low-key stress, and interfere with my writing much mor…
For notes during study pen and paper are constraining and force me to organize the thoughts in my mind first and then commit them. Mistakes needing to be corrected here is good: It reminds me what I misunderstood.
But, like the sibling poster, the writing goes onto the computer for later editing.
I keep gravitating toward similar setups. Once you remove the option to fiddle with fonts and layouts, you're left with just the writing. Console-only Debian on an old laptop is about as distraction-free as it gets without going full typewriter.
The only thing holding me back from tty as desktop environment is terminal alt modes - i find it annoying when nvim leaves behind a ghost of itself