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Yes, I think having a tangible task is really important! Since I’m in Europe, we don’t really have paper with bisphenol anymore, but that’s not the case everywhere.
What about the ink? What's the keyword to search for nom toxic printer ink/cartridge
That BPA/analog ink is going to do your health no good. Estrogen-mimickers are not exactly your friend.
> Why can I focus for hours on a game but procrastinate when writing an email? OK I got a bit triggered by this sentence. Not at TFA, but sharing my own experience: Games are fun . And I don't mean Type 1 vs Type 2 fun and the email is somehow type 2 fun. I mean that the stimulation / "hit" from a game is just higher than 90-99%% of work tasks (writing a new CLI or optimizer excluded!!). We pile on much stimulation t…
I'm going to try and see if this works better for me. The daily printout of "things that need to happen today" is a fun idea, especially if I could keep it by my bed and have it print off when my alarm goes off. Are there any receipt-style printers that can directly print some kind of sticky note? I feel like that would be even more useful since you don't have to keep pins around, though I can see the running cost ge…
Many short order restaurant kitchens use an overhead bar you can clip orders into. Should work just as well for these tasks. Amazon search for ‘restaurant ticket holder’ reveals many options for under $20
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Do not Mac sticky notes do all that, except they don't live in the physical domain? Isn't it just reflective of the fact that you are more disciplined about tidying up your physical world than the virtual one? (And this might be the basis for why the hack works).
I switch virtual desktops. Physical objects don't disappear. I switch tabs. Physical objects don't disappear. The power goes out. Physical objects don't disappear. Hard to understand in 2025, isn't it?
They also have the advantages associated with not being physical of course.
> Why can I focus for hours on a game but procrastinate when writing an email? OK I got a bit triggered by this sentence. Not at TFA, but sharing my own experience: Games are fun . And I don't mean Type 1 vs Type 2 fun and the email is somehow type 2 fun. I mean that the stimulation / "hit" from a game is just higher than 90-99%% of work tasks (writing a new CLI or optimizer excluded!!). We pile on much stimulation t…