The timer is sacred
Procrastination is a beast. But it can be defeated. Train your willpower so you can work solidly for a fixed period and actually finish things.
Richard Allardice
#70 🌱 The sacredness of SECONDS 💣
In brief 🩲
* Journal: Tiny shoots can conquer concrete, with time
* Practical: The timer is sacred
* Read: I need to send you a message – where the heck are you?
* Art: When landscape fails you, go full portrait
From the journal 📖
While hitchhiking through Hokkaidō fifteen years ago, I came across a
All the places you have to go to message the people that you know
Communication over the internet, while near instantaneous, has somehow become less convenient than the old way, with the paper and the envelope and the stamps. (Where did the stamps go, again? Was it... top right?) Once we would have managed a single mailbox, yet now we must manage a dozen
#69 🥱 The exhaustion of our METAPHORS 🕰
In brief 🩲
* Journal: Whichever way those old clocks tick
* Listen: The grim new initialism on the block
* Practical: I never met a metaphor like this before
* Art: Coming full circle to “literal is best”
* Update: This is Sparta
From the journal 📖
We’ve reached that moment that I figured would
Download: Ditch the old metaphors, fix your emails
Ditch the old metaphors, fix your emails
It’s a mailroom not an inbox – conquer your emails by categorising them into smaller, manageable lists
#68 🏕 Make a break for the OUTSIDE wild 🧳
In brief 🩲
* Journal: Slowly making a break for it
* Practical: Delisting your inbox
* Listen: Charging into the outside wild with naught but a whim
From the journal 📖
I nearly fell backwards avoiding a snail making a break for it across our wooden floorboards. It was early evening and the light