This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for August 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.
Optimizations: I moved my physical filing system into my laptop bag. More of my home base is now portable, yippy.
I am making an effort to get my stuff down to a manageable number of things for nomadism. Not because I think I'd do that, but because having the affordance is useful for not feeling too claustrophobic to think rationally about where I live. I'm hunting down yard sales to buddy up on every other week, and my laptop now has the driver to run the document scanner we've got.
Had an emotional breakdown on Wednesday. The culprit is likely some combination of forgetting to take medication and getting not enough sleep. The straw was looking at a box I'd made for the family to collect happy positive thoughts in: a hopeful initiative which had crashed and burned upon contact with said family.
I wonder whether it would have been better or worse without the melatonin. I was procrastinating going to grab the pill until it was past any reasonable hour. (I've now fixed this by having an alarm and leaving it ready to take next to my computer. Some solutions are embarrassingly simple as soon as you bother to think about them.) Perhaps I was dead tired enough by then that the melatonin had no benefit in helping me get to sleep, while convincing my body that the night should last longer than I had time for.
Texting random people every day has fallen out of use, habitrpg was much better for daily challenges like that than my new system.
This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for August 16-31.
Thanks to cata for starting the Group Rationality Diary posts, and to commenters for participating.
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