November 2013
Delete guilt tasks
A few items on my personal to-do list had lingered, untouched, for more than a month.
I just deleted them.
Those tasks did nothing but make me feel bad about what I had yet to start doing. They were guilt tasks. Maybe, now that they’re gone, I’ll be able to work on them again.
Systems > Goals
Striving after goals means failing every day until you succeeds. Living a system means succeeding every day, building on the momentum of earlier successes, and living with a more positive sense of self. Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, recently wrote:
My problem with goals is that they are limiting. Granted, if you focus on one particular goal, your odds of achieving it are better than if you have no goal. But you also miss out on opportunities that might have been far better than your goal. Systems, however, simply move you from a game with low odds to a game with better odds. With a system you are less likely to miss one opportunity because you were too focused on another. With a system, you are always scanning for any opportunity.
Pencil by FiftyThree
The @GSElevator gift guide
This clever holiday gift guide is filled with all the stuff I’d buy myself if I had the money to afford more expensive taste. There are no gift suggestions in this guide for my wife. However, the writer has a good reason for his omission, which he expressed like this:
My apologies, there are no gift ideas for women in here. If you don’t know what to buy a woman for Christmas, you’re an idiot.
@GSElevator, who authored this post, is behind what is very possibly my favorite non-personal Twitter account, mostly because of his quips like this and seasonal jokes like this.
‘This one runs on fat & saves you money’ by Peter Drew of Adelaide (photo by…
‘This one runs on fat & saves you money’ by Peter Drew of Adelaide (photo by carltonreid).
I previously posted this image more than three years ago, shortly after I started commuting to work by bike. It represents one of the many reasons I ride to work, which I will continue to do for the foreseeable future.
Slob vs. Sharp (by Jim Benton )
Slob vs. Sharp (by Jim Benton)
Comments suck
Web comments are awful. Most comment threads are complete garbage. They are full of the worst of what people say and think. But you knew that already.
I recently installed Steven Frank’s Shutup.css extension to shut down the cesspool of Internet comments. Shutup.css hides the comments sections on most popular websites. I’ve only had it for a few days, but it’s already making the web a much happier place.