Sugar and junk food rewards the brain, releases dopamine to make us feel happy. Eat it while we are working on a difficult task makes the task feel less stressful by building a reward loop. To take advantage of dopamine release,
Before: “2024-10-04 Project ABC v2” After: “241004 ProjectABCv2” The old way worked in year 1 and 2, but as the folder hierarchy piles, two problem surfaced. The objective is to achieve both the need for file sorting and to identify the context.
Spin caps are great for night journals, the seconds it takes to spin the cap off provides a time to recap the day. It enhances the ceremonial process. Snap caps are great for work. The reality is, the time to spin the cap off and adjust the grip is enough to cost an idea or
The feeling of running out of ink in a middle of a meeting and trying to touch the paper lightly to squeeze its last ink drop is disturbing. That made Lamy Safari a fountain pen worth constant revisiting. It’s a bless not having to unscrew the pen and flip it upside down to check the
They gamified my life and satisfied my OCD of tracking every aspect of my life, although the benefit and medical reliability is questionable. The fact it shines every time I turn my wrist is extremely annoying during light out. That half second delay between my wrist position and screen display. Maybe my nitpicking is the
For certain there’s debate on the reliability of MBTI, for which I cannot argue. However, I believe the overall trend could be an interesting indicator. My rest from 2016 was ENFx; in 2024 it’s ENFJ. The way I react to events and how I perceive myself probably stayed.
I revisited Cal Newport’s time block method, a short lived habit I briefly tried during college and a last resolve to my hectic schedule these days. If I don’t schedule my own time, someone else will. The days that worked Aside from getting things on traction, other benefit includes remember to take break and reflecting
I’m one of those who tried to find the “perfect tool”. It’s the fight between perfection and execution, perfection (excuse) wins most battles. I tried a lot: OneNote, Evernote, Joplin, Notion, Obsidian, Keep, Apple Note, and OneNote; it never ends, just circles. Somewhere along the line, rules form: What worked? Spreadsheets, document, folders, and cloud.
This must have been the watch I wore the longest, it’s been close to 5 years. I had two smart watches in between, a Xiaomi and a Huawei, none of which lasted more than few months. What I learned about myself with this watch?
(originally written on December 25, 2021) The first day of owning a dumb phone was not full of anxiety from digital detox. On the morning of December 24, I picked up the secondhand Nokia 3310 that I purchased online. Being late for work, I didn’t swap my SIM to the phone (it requires an adapter
