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I find those sites stress-inducing. There are so many tips and guides on how to do things better that I feel overwhelmed. I was avidly reading zenhabits some ye
by aw3c2 16y ago
I find those sites stress-inducing. There are so many tips and guides on how to do things better that I feel overwhelmed. I was avidly reading zenhabits some years ago but at some point I realised that I rather live my life with few simple ideas in mind than following a weird ideal.
- achompas 16y agoI agree...Zen Habits promotes the idea of "refactoring your life" like its some program you can optimize. In my experience, you're better off worrying about as little about your life as possible. You're also spot on about how the site is stress-inducing. Ironic for a site that's all about "simplifying life" and "living minimally."
- derefr 16y agoI've taken an alternative approach with my own website: there's a few important, timeless essays I keep, each focused on one topic—and as I think new thoughts on the topics they cover, I simply update those essays, refactoring them and repeatedly condensing them to the same length as much as possible, instead of making them into long, daunting series. Separately, I keep a blog that serves to mention when I've updated one of the essays, what I've changed, and what inspired the change (i.e., basically a commit log), but which also serves as a place to dump ephemeral thoughts whose references will quickly go out of date, and thus can't survive in the (timeless) essay format. I think many content-centered blogs would benefit from this sort of collected-works + conversation-stream approach.