This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for May 16-31.
It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:
- Established a useful new habit
- Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some belief
- Decided to behave in a different way in some set of situations
- Optimized some part of a common routine or cached behavior
- Consciously changed your emotions or affect with respect to something
- Consciously pursued new valuable information about something that could make a big difference in your life
- Learned something new about your beliefs, behavior, or life that surprised you
- Tried doing any of the above and failed
Or anything else interesting which you want to share, so that other people can think about it, and perhaps be inspired to take action themselves. Try to include enough details so that everyone can use each other's experiences to learn about what tends to work out, and what doesn't tend to work out.
Thanks to cata for starting the Group Rationality Diary posts, and to commenters for participating.
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sat and thought for a few minutes about what I was attempting to do with my journal. Realized that I had several different objectives that were kind of mutually exclusive, such as wanting to have all my hardcopy data organized CHRONOLOGICALLY and by TYPE at the same time. My phone will now ping me at random intervals to get a better distribution of my day. I have a page dedicated to listing which wellbeing indicators I'm collecting at any given time, such specific indicators (as opposed to random thoughts and a general description of my day) are written in the left page margin. Emotion/Belief processing is to go on a separate sheet of paper--or, even better, done digitally so thoughts don't have time to mutate as I transcribe them--with only the premises and end conclusions referenced in the journal proper.
Stopped using anki and duolingo as my default action when bored. This was not intentional. Anki because it keeps crashing on my phone, duolingo because I've discovered the web app is so much better. I've also been generally mentally exhausted, it was only this week that I've succeeded in doing perfect day streaks on HabitRPG again. I have so many little to-do's that need doing... It hurts just to look at the list.