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Today I wrote.

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I wrote a lot, in fact. I rewrote the entire first scene of TBSOL which is back to being about Kris.

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Is it better? Arguable. Will I still like it tomorrow? Who knows. The point is that I wrote.

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From another great piece of writing by Joan Westenberg, “Why Belief Beats Discipline”:

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We are not consistent with our goals. We are consistent with our identities. And if your identity says you’re inconsistent, undisciplined, doomed to flake or drift or binge or relapse, then the moment you raise your standards, your subconscious files an objection. You “forget” your commitments. You postpone things “just for today.” You start researching better productivity tools instead of doing the actual work. All of it in the service of returning to your known baseline - the set of standards you believe you can meet.

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The exits you’ve carved so carefully have become cages, keeping you from the growth you envisioned. Every time you choose distraction over presence, you’re training yourself to believe that this moment — this exact, unrepeatable configuration of breath and heartbeat and possibility — isn’t worth your full attention. You’re teaching yourself that you can’t be trusted with your own experience.

\n🔗prickly.oxhe.art/avoidance…

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Watching the video “You need to be bored. Here’s Why” where Harvard Professor Arthur C. Brooks explains why boredom is a necessary part of our lives.

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One of the reasons we have such an explosion of depression and anxiety in our society today is because people actually don’t know the meaning of their lives.

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Good reminder to carve out some boredom time. No phone. No Internet. No distractions.

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My favorite hack lately is adding detailed AI prompts to my text expander. Really useful for repetitive tasks like translation requests. Since I use AI primarily for Thai to English translation giving it specific instructions/added context is very useful.

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Watched a video on the controversial question “Are wooden pencils better than fountain pens?” and it convinced me to order a wooden pencil and a pencil sharpener. I think it’s been decades since I used a wooden pencil. I have a really nice mechanical pencil that I almost never use because pens have always been my go-to and more so now that I’ve discovered fountain pens. But I’m willing to experiment.

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I guess the question is: which wooden pencil? I’ll have to do some research.

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Jack Edwards, the “internet’s resident librarian,” shares his book reviews and bookish thoughts on his Substack, Constant Reader. This week, he’s clapping back at bookish snobs. “Perhaps it’s more helpful to think of collecting books like collecting wine: you pick up novels you know you will enjoy at some time in the future. That time might be right now, or it might be next year. Like a bottle of Sancerre, you’ll bring it down off the shelf at the perfect moment, when you’ll enjoy it most. That’s okay, even encouraged, because the pursuit of literature is a deeply personal endeavour: it’s about reading things you want to read, when you want to read them."

\n🔗wiseup.readwise.io/wiseup-vo…

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The Ritman Library has digitized 2,178 rare Occult books and made them available in their online reading room.

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“Nature connectedness is now accepted as a key root cause of the environmental crisis,” Richardson told Guardian journalist Patrick Barkham. “It’s vitally important for our own mental health as well. It unites people and nature’s wellbeing. There’s a need for transformational change if we’re going to change society’s relationship with nature."

\n🔗www.sciencealert.com/the-words…

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Back in 2016, deep inside a Canadian mine, geologists stumbled upon something extraordinary. At nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) below the surface, they found water that had been sealed away for up to 2.64 billion years, the oldest known water on Earth.

\n🔗www.iflscience.com/a-geologi…

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Explorers have discovered the world’s deepest shipwreck, lying 6,895 meters (22,621 feet) beneath the Philippine Sea.

\n🔗www.iflscience.com/the-world…

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That’s right – in the town of St Paul in Northern Alberta lies the world’s first ever UFO landing pad. The idea came about as part of Canada’s centennial celebrations, and once approved by the government, saw the construction of a large platform sat atop six 75-centimeter (30-inch)-tall concrete pylons. The platform is circular, of course, because all UFOs are flying saucer-shaped, right?

\n🔗www.iflscience.com/canada-is…

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The disgustingly educated are not “know-it-alls.” They’re “want-to-know-it-alls.” They collect questions like souvenirs and chase answers like lovers. Google should be tired of you.

\n🔗theebookclubx.substack.com/p/how-to-…

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I may have broken my website somehow so I’m not sure when today’s post will be going up. If you’re reading this the good news is my website isn’t all broken. Just partly broken.

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I worked on Project Midnight last night. The writing itself is terrible and I’m unlikely to keep any of it, but I did gain some clarity.

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Mostly, I realized that:

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Zoara = Azure
\nAlyra = Aeryn

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I intended for this to be a prequel to a story I started twenty years ago, but I think I’ve come upon the missing pieces of what I was originally trying to create in the first place.

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What if this isn’t meant to be a prequel at all? What if Project Midnight has been Rayne all along? Once I started thinking of it that way a lot of plot points I’d been struggling with started to make sense. And I think – I think – I’ve got this now.

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Checking out Kite, which is Kagi’s news aggregator. Very simple and easy to set up. You can keep an eye on the news you’re interested in without being overwhelmed by it. Very cool. You can even add it as an RSS feed.

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I managed to make enough gold in MoP classic to buy myself a WoW Token. Way easier to make 11K in classic than 300K in retail right now, though I guess it’ll depend how many people keep playing classic. I also played a bit of the new retail patch, but I think I’m having more fun questing through MoP.

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I’ll likely return to New World before the October content drop. But for now I’m having fun being zen in Pandaria.

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I’ve enjoyed doing laundry lately, and not in a productive, getting things done kind of way. In a “this is really fun” kind of way.

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It’s weird and it won’t last but I’ll enjoy all the clean clothes in the meantime.

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As Albert Einstein famously said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Except there’s no evidence that he said or wrote those words. The earliest evidence for this quote comes from a 1981 newspaper article reporting on an Al-Anon meeting. That’s more than a quarter century after the acclaimed physicist’s death.

\n🔗bigthink.com/high-cult…

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So when I said I was going to post here every day in August I guess what I meant is that I will post here at least 31 times in August.

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Happy to report that my blogging adventures have inspired at least one person to start blogging (livejournaling) again. My new goal in life is to get all my friends to start/resume blogging. Join the revolution.

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I spent all of yesterday playing Mists of Pandaria Classic and I have no regrets. WoW Classic is very relaxing for some reason. But as soon as I got to Pandaria on my newly-boosted level 85 Orc Warlock, I realized I had to turn around and go back to the old world to level my gathering professions. I don’t miss that part.

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I watched some of Dark Winds S3 while flying around gathering ore. Today I might listen to some podcasts. See? Relaxing. I’ll either listen to Astonishing Legends or And That’s Why We Drink. Probably the latter.

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My bulk order of socks arrived and I took out all the other socks in the drawer, stored them away in a safe location (far away from the laundry vortex) and replaced them with the new socks.

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I suppose this isn’t so much defeating the laundry gnomes as it is resigning myself to paying them sock taxes every once in a while, but at least I don’t have to waste time pairing socks since they’re all the same.

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I finally got around to ordering ALL the socks. They should arrive tomorrow.

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The sock gnomes may have won the battle, but they won’t win the war!

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According to a new study, humans can inhale more than 70,000 microplastic particles each day in an indoor environment – far more than previously thought. Worse still, most of them are small enough to penetrate deep into our lungs.

\n🔗www.sciencealert.com/study-rev…

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It’s been my goal since the start of the year to eventually (one day, maybe) launch a physical newsletter. You know, something that arrives in the mail, as opposed to something delivered to the inbox. Yesterday I purchased themidnightletter.com domain, just to have it. It might start out as a newsletter for Project: Midnight. I haven’t quite decided yet.

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Within Project: Midnight (temporary title), the Midnight Letter is part of a bigger plot. I have this in my story bible so far:

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Went to the dentist.

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Broke a tooth.

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(In that order).

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