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Saturday, January 20, 2024
Little Talk:
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How Much Dull Routine Of Existence Does A Man Require? My current answer: 1. waking up 2. winding down 3. yada yada yada
waking up: 0. wake up 1. stare out the window a bit 2. quick peek at the phone to check for urgent messages 3. get ready 5. untether the phone (if not untethered already) 6. leisurely peek at the phone 7. retether the phone 8. untether the laptop 9. leisurely peek at the laptop for email, messages, and the web 10. retether the laptop 11. move the phone charger from the bedroom to the study 12. retether the phone 14. stare out the window some more 15. 5 minute warm up 16. 5 minute meditation
winding down: 0. "quality" media. Reading, audio or television. No phone. 1. "light" media. Light television, with phone. Two great tastes! 2. Quality Media II: This Time It's Personal. No phone. 3. Turn off the television! Put down the book! 4. move the phone charger from the study to the bedroom 5. tether the phone, untether the laptop 6. leisurely peek at the laptop for email, messages, social media, and the web. A good time to read the newspaper. 7. retether the laptop, untether the phone 8. clip out articles from the newspaper, or from magazines, that you think are interesting 9. turn off the laptop, retether the phone 10. 5 minute cool down 11. 5 minute meditation 12. go to bed (eventually) 14. quality audio or reading, if you want 15. ambient background audio, if you want. My preferred background audio at the moment is podcasts, I think. But your ambiance may vary. 16. fall asleep
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How Many Sessions Does A Man Require?
session 1: desk work or field work session 2: desk work
session 1 usually ends with a shower
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How Much Audio Does A Man Require? My current answer:
2 types of audio, "radio" and "record". Podcasts are mostly radio. Audiobooks are mostly records. record #1: pre-dawn / morning / midday radio #1: critical hours radio. morning - evening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_hours record #2: afternoon / evening / night radio #2: pre-sunrise and post-sunset authorization radio. evening / night / pre-dawn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-sunrise_and_post-sunset_authorization
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How Many Times Does A Man Require? My current answer:
morning, midday, afternoon, evening, night, pre-dawn
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How Much Web-Surfing Does A Man Require? My current answer:
peek #1: pre-dawn / morning (4:30 - 10:30, 7:30) e.g. 7:30 - 8:30 poke #1: morning / midday (6:30 - 12:30, 9:30) e.g. 8:30 - 9:30 peek #2: afternoon / evening (2:30 - 8:30, 5:30) e.g. 4:30 - 5:30 poke #2: evening / night (8:30 - 2:30, 11:30) e.g. 10:30 - 11:30 ***
How Much Breakfast Reading Does A Man Require? My current answer:
Perhaps 600 - 2400 words, perhaps around 3 to 12 pages of a book.
Gradually, one realizes that one can start a chapter during breakfast, without having to finish it.
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