BigHatLogan

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by BigHatLogan 7y ago
First, congratulations on the wedding! Yeah, exactly--you nailed it. The mind is incredibly capable of coming up with excuses to put things off. If you don't plan things out and come up with a schedule, then you'll inevitably find
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by BigHatLogan 7y ago
That's great! I'm starting to view things through your lens as I get older--that work is more about setting up the foundation for the rest of your life instead of being the central focus of your life. I think if you can make it th
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by BigHatLogan 7y ago
The main thing I learned is that there's no such thing as a perfect day. If you sit around and wait for it to come, you'll be waiting until they haul your corpse away. The truth is that things always come up, especially as you get
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
This was a good read. It resonated with me because I've been noticing this happening with my mother and father as they get older. I hate to say it like this, but I used to think that my mother was sort of a "simple person" (I
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
I didn't even notice that, but I think you're right--the two points don't play well with each other. I think what I meant to say is that what I tend to do is debate between doing multiple things, but then I end up doing none
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
Be more conscientious about planning my days--and therefore my weeks, months, and years. I have been out of school for five years now and I noticed recently that time feels like it slipped through my fingers like water. I hardly know where
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
I love the example of fixing cars and building stuff. I never thought about it like that, but now that you mention it, I do think a lot of modern games are replacing the 20th century hobby of coming home and working on your car on weekends.
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
You could, but then how do you explain the activity? For example, I agree it would be a lazy decision if the culprit passively consumed some sort of content. What if they are active? What if they actively collaborate with friends and strang
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
I think I saw the same post a few years ago. I was fascinated by it. The feat was hardly lazy by any stretch of the word.
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
What makes it specifically better and why was that so easy to discover? Additionally, if it is obvious, as you say, then how do you reconcile that with the number of people who are checking out of society to disappear into video games, part
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
This is very interesting to me. What made you adopt this habit? It does seem counterintuitive to everything I have read and heard throughout my entire life. What sort of improvements, if any, have you noticed from adopting this style of eat
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
I may be preaching to the choir here (because this is largely a tech audience) but I don't buy into the stereotype that gamers play videogames (video games?) because of laziness or sloth or some other unfairly negative characteristic m
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
Haha your comment made me laugh. Or rather: It evoked a sense of humor out of me! Kidding. I haven't taken an Uber in quite some time, but I was in a taxi earlier this year. There was a small television, not unlike the one at the gas s
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
Not being allowed to pump your own gas has always fascinated me. I believe Vermont also has the same law in place. Or maybe it was New Hampshire? Does the overall price increase as a result of not being allowed to pump your own gas? From th
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
Interesting! This is exactly what I was talking about. I do wish the Mute button was better labeled. The gas station I'm talking about has completely unlabelled buttons. No doubt this was a conscious design decision. I'm conflicte
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
The article is interesting but I wish it went deeper into one of the theses: that people aren't craving silence as much as they are craving a lack of distraction. Noise has always existed in varying levels, but what I think may be diff
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
It's an interesting question, one that has been bothering me as I get "older" (I'm a few years short of turning 30). The short answer is I'm not sure. There was a set of paths ahead of me in life and I chose one, mo
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
Some variant of this seems to happen to organizations after they reach a certain size of people. I used to work at a startup that raised a massive round of funding and began a hiring spree. I joined one of the satellite offices shortly afte
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
I may be overanalyzing this entire "phenomenon", but it serves to remind me that our own understanding of ourselves is incredibly limited. There seem to be a number of processes happening under the surface that are completely unbe
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by BigHatLogan 8y ago
Don't have a perfect answer for you here, but I would recommend you check out a book called "Deep Work" by Cal Newport. The book is primarily concerned with focus and how to get more out of it. It's backed by both anecdo
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