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Bad Youtube

AI Lofi

Many years ago, my podcast cohost Josef made a Youtube channel called Vaporgen. He had a script running on his server which (if memory serves) pulled a random bit from the middle of a song, stretched it out to 3 minutes and added a distorted picture of something or other

How To Think About Your To-Dos, Part 2

How To Think About Your To-Dos, Part 2

more not being a productivity blog

How To Think About Your To-Dos

How To Think About Your To-Dos

a reminder system, not a reward system

Actually Good Writing

Actually Good Writing

Last year Slate Star Scott referred to Boris Johnson as "a shockingly good writer". If you read the article in question, leaving aside quibbles about the complete lack of substance in the content you'll find a perfectly passable Wodehouse pastiche; the written equivalent of Johnson'

Personality In Politics

Personality In Politics

I really liked Matt Bruenig's piece on how the form and content of people's political persuasions are perhaps better mapped on separate axes: A better way to think about this may be that how a particular person approaches their political advocacy is just a (mostly) separate

ADHD: Full Life Consequences

ADHD: Full Life Consequences

I was helping a friend who was looking to get some ADHD coaching a while back, and in the course of the research came across some stats for ADHD sufferers' health outcomes which were bonkers: 37% more likely to get into car accidents? 11-13 years decreased life expectancy? This

Miss Congeniality Made Me Feel Like A Targeted Individual

Miss Congeniality Made Me Feel Like A Targeted Individual

Back in the day, before I met my girlfriend, I was on various dating apps. Not the best experince in the world, though I did end up meeting my girlfriend through one of them (Hinge, which is therefore the one I'd recommend—though obviously a lot can change

How To Cure Your Eczema In A Week: Follow-Up 1 (In Which N Expands To 3)

How To Cure Your Eczema In A Week: Follow-Up 1 (In Which N Expands To 3)

mometasone, mo problems

They’re Coming For Librivox

They’re Coming For Librivox

This is something that happened a while ago, and let's go for the most generous interpretation: Microsoft decided to take a small fraction of their huge piles of money and do something good with it by letting Project Gutenberg, the free ebook people who've been going

How To Cure Your Eczema In <1 Weeks, An n=1 Study

How To Cure Your Eczema In <1 Weeks, An n=1 Study

just call me adam englebrightoianni

Why Are You Struggling?

Why Are You Struggling?

seriously not a productivity blog

Information Landscape

Information Landscape

I went to a book talk on Monday, the topic of which was QAnon. I've been fascinated with QAnon for years, but something I keep coming back to is that it seems to have a weirdly mass appeal despite large sections of it seeming on their face not

Project Decay

Thinking about projects which fail before they've really got going got me thinking about another phenomenon which certainly isn't the same but is partially related—projects which used to have vitality but don't any longer, they just have a long fade-out. I feel like

Does Culture Matter?

Does Culture Matter?

Adaptivity or acracy?

Adaptivity or acracy?

i am the gravedigger of the project graveyard

Projects I Won't Do: Dogfinder

Projects I Won't Do: Dogfinder

Everything Is Content Marketing

Everything Is Content Marketing

in the same way that everything is event promotion

Relationship With The System

Relationship With The System

I'm remembering the 90s again

What Got Us Here Won't Get Us There

What Got Us Here Won't Get Us There

no general but ludd means the poor any good

Past Evil As Evidence Of Current Sagacity

Past Evil As Evidence Of Current Sagacity

I'm also trying to get 'the nerd department' going as a phrase I use

The Role Of Discipline

The Role Of Discipline

I promise I’m not turning into a productivity blog!

Seeing The Matrix

Seeing The Matrix

When I play videogames, especially big ones with Expansive Open Worlds &c., I tend to play them intensely for about a week or so, burn out, come back a while later and finish the story, then never play them again. The initial break is the point where I’ve

A Year In Focus

A Year In Focus

watch only, no items, final destination

Not Putting Off

Not Putting Off

I'm going to describe something that might sound like procrastination, but isn't, quite. Or possibly it is and I've had a different definition of procrastination than everyone else this whole time. There's a thing that happens when I encounter a task that,