🏐 🏃 🍵 🧘♂️ 🧗🐝 What I'm up to right now Information Inputs[^1]: Life: Derek Sivers Life: Man's Search for Meaning Life: Tim Urban's Wait But Why B...
Switched to ASA plastic because overheating No more gluing flaps together, the magnets are dropped in during a print pause and then encased in the plastic. This also allows middle part of the flap to be consistent color to remove black line in the middle of the white segment For more reliable flipping I also drop in a steel pin. printing small rod ends was prone to failure or had to be sanded Use…
Problem: I like to do things with people but there is a high overhead in thinking about who might be free and reaching out to them individually to invite them. Solution: Contact lists plus a Siri shortcut to blast out a message to those people that lets people know I'm going to be doing something and they can join if they are free. Why doesn't a group chat solve this? Well you can't easily…
I have wanted to build a scoreboard since college and ever since making it my capstone project I knew I could do much better: So when I came across this 7 segment display I was determined to re-imagine my scoreboard project: video link And I just got the MVP working! I am thinking I can run the entire thing off of a single 18650 and have it run indefinitely using solar panels. Here are my code…
I love the idea that meditation is training for the mind (the attention aspect of it more specifically). Each time you go from being distracted --> paying attention to the present moment you have completed 1 rep. Congratulations, you have hundreds of thousands more to go. While I find that this is easy to complete in the serenity of the Austin Zen Temple I arrive back in my day to day life and…
Saying the same word over and over again and the word stops sounding like a word. It starts sounding like sounds link If you stare and don't move your eyes the images starts to get burned in and it almost melts together Stay still long enough and your body sensations stop feeling like they are coming from your hand and instead just feel like raw sensations. When meditating if you wait long enough…
Context: I never think about the consequences of dating someone when I first meet them. I am so captivated by the possibilities and attraction that the consequences which are so obvious after a breakup are completely invisible during the honeymoon phase. It is a form of being confidently wrong and it hurts . Hopefully writing about it will help make it fresh in my brain next time I am poised to…
I appreciate you sharing Daniel! Especially because I know it is difficult for you as this could feel like a “confrontation”. I love both you and Sarah and part of that is caring more about both of your happiness than my own and I am determined to support that even though there is certainly some discomfort in doing that. More on that discomfort: I wish I understood myself better so that not being…
College dorm room --> renting with a few roommates in apt/house --> renting/buying house to live alone w/ partner This is the typical progression amongst my friends and the majority of people in my generation in America. There is a progression of isolation that happens as people move through their life. Why does this happen? My theory is that it is because as people get older they get less…
This is a response to a personal trainer I was working with for an initial evaluation. I said: Love the methodology but am hung up on the concept of hiding the information from people. Why does functional patterns do this if the mission is to help people? His response: Hey David, I'm really curious as to what experience you had that has you ask this question? Here is my long form response to this:…