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The power of daily rituals (2021)
- candiddevmike 9mo agoShow and tell daily helpful rituals? Here's mine: I shower before bed and put out my clothes for the next day before bed. When I wake up, I roll out of bed into a predetermined outfit and not have to waste precious pre-coffee clock cycles picking one out.
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- 3eb7988a1663 9mo agoThe pre-day outfit is a great idea. Not that I spend all that much effort on how I dress, but that is needless extra effort when I am just trying to make it to work on time.
- pitched 9mo agoI put a coffee machine right next to my bed to reduce those pre-coffee clock cycles as much as possible. I’ve found it more helpful than expected to have something close that’s more tempting than the phone.
- markdown 9mo agoEveryone showers before bed so that's not exactly novel. Prepping your clothes for the next day is a good one. Do you not shower in the morning as well?
- irishcoffee 9mo ago> Everyone showers before bed so that's not exactly novel. I hate to break it to you, but this isn’t accurate.
- goodmythical 9mo agodon't tell them some people: only shower in the morning shower infrequently only shower "when dirty" don't shower don't have showers Might blow their whole worldview.
- allthetime 9mo agothis is a pretty good poem
- theshrike79 9mo agoEvening Me always does as much of the morning things as possible, because Morning Me can't be trusted =) Bag is packed, clothes are picked and any morning beverages are pre-prepared as much as possible.
- harry8 9mo agoBroke up into 2 groups, the first asked to perform some ritual vs the control. The control were actually placed in what my high school described as detention. Sit still and relax for 30 minutes. Did they measure how much rituals chill you out or how much stewing in your own juices for 30 mins makes you uncomfortable?
- gz5 9mo agon=1 but they help me hit flow states. almost like they provide 'context' before x, helping me to 'prepare' (or be ready?), filter out the noise, focus. similar in group setting - shared context. i suppose could be 'placebo' but would it matter if the result is what i want, and i can't easily attain it other ways? i do feel it is somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy - i am essentially practicing something so getting better at it. not enough reason though to 'practice' an alternative, at least for me personally.
- ryan-duve 9mo agoMy work ritual every morning: 1. Power on laptop (it is powered off every day at 5 PM). 2. Log into VPN. 3. Log into Okta. 4. Log into AWS accounts, one per container (about 7 or 8). 5. Log into Docker Desktop. 6. Log into AWS CLI to get daily credentials. The whole thing takes about 3-4 minutes. A former colleague referred to this as my "mise en place", or my daily arranging of my working environment. Like the article suggests, I find this offers me a "centering" before I open my email, calendar and missed chat messages and get started for the day.
- rkagerer 9mo agoI'm glad it helps you center. But does anyone else think it's crazy how many logons you need to do on a repetitive basis?
- caminante 9mo agoI know you mean crazy bad, but only needing 3-4 minutes is crazy good. Go ask your baker how early they had to arrive to make sure your croissan'wich was ready at 8:23 AM.
- theshrike79 9mo agoAll of this should be just a matter of plugging in a $device into your computer that proves you are you. Then every other service should trust that and just log you in automatically.
- tokenless 9mo agoAll that should just happen. Unless it is FedRAMP or something insane like that.
- nebezb 9mo agoI have set my own cli credentials ttl to 8 hours and require 2FA to refresh. Once daily works fine for me. It all takes ~30 seconds, really.
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- bdangubic 9mo agowalk my dog for 45 minutes then make breakfast for my kid
- abcde666777 9mo agoI used to play Counterstrike competitively, and it's become commonly known that pre-match routines can help a lot with consistency. Often something as simple as warming up for 30 minutes in an offline server with bots. Some of the benefits are physical, you're literally warming up the muscles in your hand and arm, but it also has psychological benefits. If for instance you're nervous about the upcoming match, going through the warmup puts your mind in a context of "alright, we've done this a thousand times before, nothing new, just got to go through the motions". It also removes noise from your mind as your attention is going into the warmup instead of overthinking the task ahead. I think there's a predictive phenomenon in the brain which primes us for activities when the precursors are present. For instance, working at home versus at the office - my experience has been that the simple act of physically going to the office puts me in a better emotional state to get to work than staying at home, almost like during that process it's killed the tasks associated with home and booted up the ones associated with work.
- artzev_ 9mo agofriction makes rituals stick. if opening instagram takes 2 seconds instead of zero, that pause is where the ritual lives. you notice the choice instead of autopilot. works for building good habits too - the slowdown creates space for intention
- tern 9mo agoThis article sounds like it's written from the perspective of alien artificial intelligences discovering humanity
- spudlyo 9mo agoEvery morning for the past 14 months or so I've sat down at my desk with a cup of coffee and spent ~20 minutes writing out a page of thoughts in my Hobonichi Techo journal with my trusty Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen. I try to write plainly and honestly about whatever pops into my head, and before I know it, I'm done. It hasn't been super life changing, but I do enjoy doing it. Sometimes during the course of the day I'll think back about an aspiration I had that morning, and actually do something I might not have done otherwise. About a year into this practice my hand started hurting a bit, so I've slowly trained myself to write using the muscles in my arm and shoulder rather than moving the muscles in my hand. My handwriting quality took a nose-dive in the short term, but my hand stopped hurting and I have moments now where my cursive looks nearly as good as it used to.
- pitched 9mo agoI do this too but on a laptop. It is more beneficial to use paper but I don’t want readers to think it isn’t incredibly important even without the gear. Like how good running shoes are not important to start running.
- goodmythical 9mo agoI was honestly just thinking the same thing. Like...damn, why is OP advertising such expensive gear to people who might want to just try something? You can do exactly the same thing with a mead spiral bound and a ticonderoga pencil... Or text notes on an existing device Or audio notes on an existing device Or for the price OP is advertising, get a whole drawing tablet to plug in Or for the price OP is advertising, get a used android tablet There are both cheaper options and, to me, better options that are also cheaper as they offer search, cross linking, algorithmic analysis (what have I been writing about lately, what have I stopped writing about), and easy duplication so that I don't lose my notes. Personally, I use an obisidan vault in a cloud folder...easy duplication on any device, easy review, easy search, easy cross reference... To do what I do on with my notes with a pen and paper, I'd be spending half of my time indexing and notating rather than producing results driven by the notes...which, I guess is valid if the entire goal is spending time with your notes, but I just personally feel like I've got to get something out of the process other than staring at shit I used to think about. For instance, on paper, I'd have to underline or otherwise mark key words and maintain a live index in order to find: what's been worrying me lately, what was that dream that one night, what's my second most common topic of thought...and a million other things. Whereas in reviewing my obsidian vault all of those things are at most 30 seconds away, and I didn't have to do any work on top of writing the notes to get that functionality.
- andsoitis 9mo ago1. make coffee 2. sun isn't out yet, so read a book for a while 3. make second coffee as it starts to get lighter outside 4. walk in the garden with second cup of coffee 5. fire up my computer and start checking messages
- LAC-Tech 9mo agoI always feel a little jealous of religious people when they do these things. I guess us secularised, atomised people should just make our own.
- bee_rider 9mo agoI strongly suspect it is just “obviously alive” things that have any sort of subjective experience. But we can’t really prove a negative, so we can thank our coffee machine spirits as a ritual, if we want.
- Towaway69 9mo agoWe'll soon have AI as our God replacement, we can then pray to it. Remember any unexplainable technology in which we blindly trust might as-well be God.