Aaaaahhhhcrap, it’s only the third day I’ve tried to use my Unideal Industrial Landing for napping, and I straight-up got caught. Maintenance guys with toolboxes just stormed right up there, and I heard them in enough time to stand up and be holding my mat - they gave me the eye and said “catching a little workout, eh?” and I said “Why yes, yes I ( Read more... )

PRO TIP: When carrying what is obviously a pillow, blanket and yoga-mat through an office park, just keep your chin up and roll your eyes at anybody who looks at you inquisitively, like they’re a dumbass for not realizing how this is normal.

Which, frankly, is kinda true.

Man, I am SICK of fighting this world to be able to sleep. It’s not like my ( Read more... )

…and no time to even try saying it right now, so here, watch ten thousand people sing the Ninth!

(Video cuts straight to the money shot, but definitely put on the whole thing if you have time.  I mean duh.)

Love and O.O,

PD

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Many bad habits, most of which sprung up in response to dealing with the "On Doing Badly" stuff, need to be reduced or eliminated from my life now, in order to proceed.

I think I'm going to choose to focus on replacing them with good things, rather than on restricting them.  They're there for a reason - in response to feelings of ( Read more... )

This is a story about shopping for clothes. No wait, it's a critical piece about women in tech.

I work the salaryman gig - like many techs with people and organizational skills, I got pushed into management early, and now in order to make money that’s worth the office grind, I do the not-quite-executive managing-tech-departments thing. (So ( Read more... )

Both the single best TED talk I've ever seen, and one of the best *things* I've ever seen, period.

I want to live in a world where everyone has watched this.



Originally published at counterclockwise. You can comment here or there.

I'm normally quite in favor of stretching your mind in any direction - but allowing some thoughts to exist, and especially to settle in and become habit, is downright poisonous.

These thoughts are the harbingers of feeling and getting old, of being stuck in a rut, of allowing unhappiness and regret and dissatisfaction to run your life ( Read more... )

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” - H.W. Longfellow

When you think of people who try to live "modestly", or with humility - meaning that they do not boast, show off, or elevate themselves above others; and that they seek ways to serve others - you often think of spiritual devotees: ( Read more... )

Some thoughts about polyphasic sleep:

• There seem to be as many methods of adapting as there are people.  I've heard from many successful polyphasers lately - a particular lot, actually, which means both a) wow cool, catching on! and b) I'm super behind on my emails; sorry if I've neglected you - and nearly all have told me about their ( Read more... )

Motivation is a weighting-the-scales game.

One way of weighting the scales in the direction of a thing you want to get done is to growl and focus on it and swear you’ll do it - that’s one way, but it has a high energy-cost and only provides so much push. Over-relying on “telling yourself to do it” is exhausting and demoralizing.

An easier way to ( Read more... )