I really love how Kosho Uchiyama describes meditation with the metaphor "opening the hand of thought"

https://wisdomexperience.org/product/opening-hand-thought/

I'll jump in too. Also started coding with HTML in Neopets and then joined the middle school's programming club! We were playing around with C++ and Visual Basic. Love seeing these updates!

If you haven't already, you can turn off your YouTube watch history, which stops all recommendations. It makes it way less addicting.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725

The worst customer support experiences of my life have been from Google, both while using Google Fi personally and GCP while working at Replit in its early days. Thankfully I'm no longer using either of those products now.

Only tangentially on-topic, but I do all the financial modeling for the past several (early stage) startups I've worked for in Google Sheets.

The ease, collaboration/sharing, and array formulas win out over the faster speed for calculations, better shortcuts, cross-workbook linking, and customization in Excel.

That said, it's been a few years since I've tried Excel so would love to hear someone convince me to try it again.

I'm using the MS suite for the first time in over a decade...and the collaborative aspects are still nowhere near Google's. I routinely get problems when multiple people are editing the same content (Word doc, spreadsheet, or PowerPoint). And sometimes the thick client works best, sometimes browser editing works fine...but it's inconsistent.

For all of them, Microsoft has a more complete feature set...but for 99% of things (and anything with lots of collaboration), I prefer Google Work Suite or whatever it's called this month.

Check out the work from the meditation research lab at Harvard [1] for more

[1] https://meditation.mgh.harvard.edu/

Great read. We've been seeing some wild emergent behavior at Rime (tts voice ai) too, e.g. training the model to <laugh> and it being able to <sigh>.

I recently picked up Mirrorshades and The Big Book of Cyberpunk (edited by Jared Shurin) [1]

Will check this one out too!

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700576/the-big-book...

Thanks for the recommendation. I just ordered a copy of "The Big Book of Cyberpunk".

Thanks, picked up the big book, but I got it as 2 volumes. So not quite so big perhaps

Came here to say this, thanks.

Only thing to add is that I like the "inbox" feature in Todoist (plus a single catchall project). I get overeager during the day and add a bunch of stuff. The inbox makes it easy for me to mostly just remove things I won't actually do but then file away the stuff I might for later.

I've put weekly chores into a single recurring task and do them on Sundays or kick back another day or two (or just skip) if I'm busy.

It’s hypocritical for me to offer personal productivity advice, but here I go.

Weekly chores should be on a printed checklist on a clipboard kept in the kitchen or similar. These are wholly predictable items and are just clutter in a todo application, which should be devoted to making sense of the “everything else” in life.

I do this with just an ever expanding notes file. Works!