Who 'ya gonna trust? CNN, Podcasts, ChatGPT…
On my Mastadon feed this week, the question was asked
“Why have #podcasts become so popular in the last few years? What’s changed?”
I think there are a lot of answers…
Hikers, Volunteers, Hard Work and Relationships
In your “Presidents Log Book Entry” article in the monthly newsletter, you talked about the need for the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) to build its “brand identity” to reach our target “consumers”. About that…
Count Your Blessings
Do something radical. Count your blessings, name them one by one Literally. Do it. Write them down. Meditate on all the good stuff in your life. Maybe even give thanks. https://hymnary.org/text/when_upon_lifes_billows_you_are_tempest (the fact that this follows yesterdays “Making Lists” musing is just coincidental … he asserts … our maybe it’s the positive application) #47 of #100DaysToOffload take 2.1, https://100daystooffload.com/
Making lists
Dad made lists. Lots of them. I have Emacs org mode.
Making lists is part of the story I tell myself about how I’m working on the right things and getting them done.
Try writing more, you'll worry less
The past couple weeks, I’ve intentionally cut the phone out my morning routine. I was already writing a daily journal (on paper), about a page or two a day. I’ve always found that to be cathartic, as well as a good way to organize my thoughts and do some day-to-day planning. Now I’m writing two daily journals.
mornings without the phone (regaining my mind)
Believe it or not, you will be OK if you don’t use your “smart”-phone to look up everything the minute you think of it, if you don’t have it by your bed at night and you don’t turn it on for a few hours. You might even regain a less-addicted, more thoughtful “smart”-you.
Death, Taxes, and Job
Today I’m going to pay my taxes, work on updating my living will and health care power of attorney, telling others when I want doctors to pull the plug if I can’t make that decision myself.
Death and taxes. You can’t live with them, and they get you in the end.
When discussing death, taxes, and “I know I’m right, why is all this bad stuff happening to me?”, there’s no better place to turn than Job…
Generation P
I think I’m a member of “Gen-P”, the “Peter Pan” generation who grew up in the shadow of the 1953 Disney production that touted the idea that we never have to grow up.
Figure 1: “Boat off Jeckyll Island” by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Successful?
In http://curious.galthub.com/blog/2022-12-25/ I said Bruce moved on from there to be VP of MSN at Microsoft for a while. Arguably a “Highly Successful Person” Which, of course, begs (assumes, cedes) the question: What is success? Bruce embraced the management track. I’ve fairly consistently and actively dodged it, ironically after Bruce promoted me to my first supervisory role … managing the development of a web-page creation tool for CompuServe’s “MySpace”-like web page publishing system … from there I took a hard career turn into the security world focusing on Internet security, routers, linux/unix, etc.
The unnumbered habits of a questionably effective person
This is two part rant on planning with (and without) Emacs Org Mode, shoved together into one post in much the same way as Lennon-McCartney songs were shoved together from musical scraps they had laying around. My Frankenstein post will probably have less impact and reach than “A Day In The Life”, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.