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333 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 14 May \ on: journal-003 mostly_harmless
Here's a thing I'm trying to be more diligent about doing:
At a minimum, jot down the briefest outline of "notable" events that happen. The scare quotes mean that it doesn't have to be noteable to someone else, just some of the things that anchored the day and that made me pay attention a little, that could be said to characterize what it feels like to be me right now. Something like:
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Small-group training where trainer was out, so we all picked an exercise last week and assembled them into today's routine. X and Y didn't show up -- funny how it made we remaining three feel like part of something together, even though we barely know each other.
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Talked to Z about letting the idea of having kids slip away. I said it's better to be decisive about big sad decisions and really decide; she said it's better to let them incrementally become real: you don't put an ailing pet down at the first sign of ailment.
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Dinner w/ C at Korean place. C orders everything for both of us; waitress literally ignores me, like totally freezes me out. Is it bc C took charge? She hates guys? What?
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CORECURSIVEpodcast on learning, the conditions in which one can learn, Bret Victor, Seymour Papert. Super interesting, full of implication for life in general. Felt a click.
(This is literally going to be today's entry, once I de-obfuscate a couple things. Thanks for the provocation.)
That took ... six minutes, maybe? The virtue will be that, because I took the time to consolidate it, I will have those things as an anchor into the experiences. I possess them more fully, now. They're available for insight.
Something to consider, if you're searching for a way to do it that isn't too oppressive.