7/19/2024

Life

Thinking more on diet, and how mild food addiction might have a role in my life. I'm generally pretty fit, but after intentionally reducing sugar for ~2 weeks, it's interesting to see the changes, both good in terms of dropping a few pounds and generally snacking less, and the bad with a couple mood swings. One of them made me realize that my first go-to after a stressful client call was to grab a snack, when mentally I know there are muuuuch better ways to decompress, like a walk around the block.

Work

Thinking about my voice, and how to translate that into words. Going through some of my past writing about my work... it's bland and boring as shit. Sure, it might make my high school English teacher proud, but literally, anyone could have written it. I'm thinking how to get my writing closer to the way I actually speak, one way I'm exploring is Write of Passage.

Rabbit Hole

For someone that doesn't get a ton of emails (for work, most comms are in Slack or in a weekly 1:1, for everything else I either unsubscribe or auto-forward to Readwise to digest later) I realize I check email an awful lot. Sure, I like to think I'm being productive, but the more I think back, it's actually me either faking productivity, or looking for the dopamine hit that comes with new emails (ahhh yeah, order shipped!). It makes me think more about how energy rises and falls during the day, and trying not to spend my peak time (late morning) doing low-energy work (email)

Reading

Paved Paradise. Just started, but really like it. Talks about how much space we waste on parking, and how it often gets in the way of some of the bigger problems in a city (walkability, housing prices, 3rd spaces, etc)

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