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Subset is now available on iOS via TestFlight. Right now, there's simple saving and search. Next up? Sharing. Head to the site to see it in action and get access. https://subset.network
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Interesting! Does the full-humanness taper off or change in character over time as a little one grows less little? And does it cause a change in perspective or action re: the other things which definitely do not max one out?
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Typical work environment is arranged for physical convenience. Look for rearrangements that intro physical inconvenience but aren’t significant enough to trigger context switches/disconnects from ongoing work. It’s custom per setup/person but some samples: - sit/stand desk and set up protocols for alteration. Eg AM vs PM, on calls vs not, change at every food/beverage instant, switch at set times - distribute devices/thinking tools around the space and at different heights. Eg store things on v. high/low shelves, put a tablet on the floor across the room - have a few bands or tools or movement snacks around and/or listed and integrate them into dead/slow time of current work. Eg instead of sitting and pondering a thorny problem, do a movement and noodle over it.
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Katy is OG, has been writing and YouTubing for a long time. She’s the one who came up with `movement snacks` which is all over now if you are in movement bunny holes tldr version of the book is prob to move more by habit stacking but that’s me guessing since it’s not out yet her blog might be enough of a quickstart. aimed more at moms maybe but the moves are good https://www.nutritiousmovement.com/exercise-advent-2024-heads-up-24-moves-for-your-head-neck/
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Ooo new book! Biggest concept I picked up from her was not trying to satisfy all movement needs / wants in 1hr of a 24hr day and instead habit stack and build a life conducive to movement.
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Not entirely sure of JB’s schtick but suspect he and the author of the text tread similar ground—religion, contemporary meaning and so on. But the author seems way less inflammatory.
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Kinda rhymes with my experience. Enjoyment of non-sport exercise became a thing for me when the drive for explicit outcomes (look, weight, PRs) dissolved. I began to enjoy the literal experience of being embodied and in motion. Like the pleasant vibe from a stroll but multiplied.
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Retroactive training log: managed to get in two BJJ sessions and a traditional Judo session (lots of fun) whilst travelling in November. Amazing to roll in new gyms with new people with totally different styles. Starting to buy-in to the idea that BJJ (and grappling too, perhaps) actually does give one an accessible community almost anywhere in the world.
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Training log, gi: worked a few motions and attacks from sit-up guard into knee cuts, side control and mount. Sparring was 8/9 five minute rounds. Spent most of the time attacking from open guard and side control but also tried for some smooth, controlled sweeps from butterfly and half guard (middling success rate).
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Today’s reading also featured early squabbles over miners rights in Victoria, Australia. https://warpcast.com/msms/0x8402f6d8 https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Thomas-Keneally-Australians:-A-short-history-9781760632359
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High bar, right there.
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Reading Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia… and an essay explores a child’s experience of fear (in contrast to the word-mitigated fear of adults). https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300258455/dostoyevsky-reads-hegel-in-siberia-and-bursts-into-tears
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Question: is parenthood so transformative because it reliably evokes a true and deep awe? An awe that may have been slumbering for years/decades, or only ever emerged momentarily since childhood.
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This AM’s reading? Some early governor conflicts in Australia: A Short History, and cyte shenanigans in Greg Egan’s Morphotrophic. https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Thomas-Keneally-Australians:-A-short-history-9781760632359 https://www.gregegan.net/MORPHOTROPHIC/MORPHOTROPHIC.html
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Exponentially more fun: hitting things well. That glimmer from a slick sequence and good connection is 👌
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No resource currently—been AFK for a bit but getting back into things now. We do have a TestFlight app. Basic saving and searching; working on sharing and more advanced pieces.
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We got some ideas :D
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AFK and/or lurked for most of November. What went down in the Farcaster and Warpcast world?
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This AM’s reading? On the devil and melancholy in Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears; about the post-1st fleet arrivals into Sydney Cove and the departure of Arthur Phillips in Australia: A Short History. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300258455/dostoyevsky-reads-hegel-in-siberia-and-bursts-into-tears https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Thomas-Keneally-Australians:-A-short-history-9781760632359
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Seems like a recurring utopian sentiment that'll remain unfeasible at scale until the knowledge worker stack becomes sufficiently protocolised and/or gets absorbed into the operating system layer of consumer devices.
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