Dana Gioia on Writing
March 3, 2025 • #An extended interview with Dana Gioia on poetry, opera, writing, and his creative process.
Topic / habits
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January 22, 2024 • #
Our environments heavily impact what we do in them. But we have the ability to engineer our environments, and therefore, our habits and behavior.
“Choice architecture” means architecting our surroundings to coax the habits we want.
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Progress Report, August 2023
August 31, 2023 • #Progress report for August 2023.
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L’appétit Vient en Mangeant
July 24, 2023 • #'Nibble and your appetite will grow.'
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Progress Report, November 2022
December 15, 2022 • #Progress report for October 2022.
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Making Mistakes Means You're Doing Things
November 2, 2022 • #The magic of trial and error for learning and satisfaction.
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Progress Report, October 2022
November 1, 2022 • #Progress report for October 2022.
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Progress Report, September 2022
September 30, 2022 • #Progress for September 2022.
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Progress Report, August 2022
September 1, 2022 • #Progress fo August 2022.
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Progress Report, July 2022
August 1, 2022 • #Progress for July 2022.
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Progress Report: June 2022
July 1, 2022 • #Progress for June 2022.
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Progress Report: May
June 1, 2022 • #Progress for May 2022.
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Progress Report: April
May 1, 2022 • #Progress for April 2022.
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2020 Goals Review
January 2, 2021 • #Assessing my personal goals for 2020.
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Goal Progress: November
December 1, 2020 • #Tracking my November goal progress for the year.
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Goal Progress: October
November 1, 2020 • #Tracking my October goal progress for the year.
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Two Years of Everyday Writing
October 19, 2020 • #Developing a writing habit that led to a 2-year blogging streak.
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Improving Sleep
October 9, 2020 • #Trying out some new techniques to improve sleep.
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Plus Minus Next Journaling
October 4, 2020 • #A simple journaling format idea from Anne-Laure Le Cunff.
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Goal Progress: September 2020
October 1, 2020 • #Tracking my September goal progress for the year.
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Personal Moats
September 24, 2020 • #Building personal moats by combining a unique set of overlapping areas you're best at in combination.
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Goal Progress: August 2020
September 1, 2020 • #Tracking my August goal progress for the year.
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Goal Progress: July
August 2, 2020 • #Tracking my July goal progress for the year.
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Goal Progress: June
July 1, 2020 • #Tracking my June goal progress for the year.
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Goal Progress: May 2020
June 1, 2020 • #Tracking my May goal progress for the year.
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Choosing Fitness
May 24, 2020 • #David Smith writes about 3 years of commitment to personal health and fitness.
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Goal Progress: April 2020
May 1, 2020 • #Tracking my March progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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Rolling Windows for Goal Tracking
April 26, 2020 • #Using rolling windows for tracking relative progress on habits or goals.
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Goal Progress: March
April 1, 2020 • #Tracking my March progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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Goal Progress: February
March 1, 2020 • #Tracking my February progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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Goal Progress: January
February 2, 2020 • #Tracking my January progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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Successful Habits Through Smoothly Ratcheting Targets
January 3, 2020 • #Andy Matuschak on techniques to help form habits.
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2020 Goals
January 2, 2020 • #Setting personal goals for 2020.
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Goal Summary: Running Stats
December 28, 2019 • #Summary stats on my running performance for 2019.
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Goal Summary: Meditation
December 18, 2019 • #Looking back on the year of meditation practice.
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Goal Summary: Wrapping Up 2019
December 17, 2019 • #Assessing my performance against goals set out for 2019.
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600 Miles
December 11, 2019 • #Reaching a target well above my annual running goal.
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Goal Progress: November
December 1, 2019 • #Tracking my November progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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A Twitter "bestof" List
November 11, 2019 • #Recalibrating my usage of Twitter.
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Goal Progress: October
November 1, 2019 • #Tracking my October progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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The Every Day Blog
October 29, 2019 • #A year into the every-day blogging experience.
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Goal Progress: September
October 1, 2019 • #Tracking my September progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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A Quick Running Update
September 27, 2019 • #An update on training for the half-marathon and reaching the annual running goal.
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Goal Progress: August
September 1, 2019 • #Tracking my August progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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Elevate for Strava
August 29, 2019 • #A Chrome extension for rich data analysis of Strava activities.
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Group Training
August 28, 2019 • #Marathon training with an expanding group of coworkers.
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Long Runs
August 15, 2019 • #Ramping up the long runs in prep for the October half marathon.
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Goal Progress: July
August 1, 2019 • #Tracking my July progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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Biking Again
July 21, 2019 • #Getting back on the bike.
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Habits vs. Goals
July 8, 2019 • #Making the distinction between forming habits and setting goals.
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Goal Progress: June
July 1, 2019 • #Tracking my June progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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The Reading Diet
June 26, 2019 • #A few notes on my recent reading habits, and on buying over renting books.
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Run Shore Acres: Complete
June 20, 2019 • #Completing my goal to run every street in Shore Acres.
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Running Kit
June 12, 2019 • #A look at my standard running gear.
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Goal Progress: May
May 31, 2019 • #Tracking my May progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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Gates' Law: How Progress Compounds
May 24, 2019 • #Long-term investments and the potential of the 'Adjacent Possible'.
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Forming Habits
May 23, 2019 • #Thoughts on what it takes to form positive habits.
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Night Running
May 19, 2019 • #“Running at night in the neighborhood.”
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Goal Progress: April
May 1, 2019 • #Tracking my April progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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Goal Progress: March
April 1, 2019 • #Tracking my March progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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Weekend Reading: Hurricanes, Long Games, and AirPods
March 30, 2019 • #NSF program using Fulcrum Community, playing long games instead of short ones, and how AirPods are like the iPod.
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It’s Not About the Number
March 5, 2019 • #Thoughts on meditation patterns of practice and 'streak' counting.
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Goal Progress: February
March 1, 2019 • #Tracking my February progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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Goal Progress: January
February 1, 2019 • #Tracking my January progress toward personal goal targets for the year.
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Meditation Progress
January 25, 2019 • #Progress on my meditation practice.
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2019
January 1, 2019 • #Setting some goals for 2019.
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2018 in Review
December 31, 2018 • #Looking back on 2018.
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This is Water
December 26, 2018 • #“A commencement address from David Foster Wallace, 2005.”
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The Personal Security Footprint Review
December 12, 2018 • #Stepping through my annual security review process with 1Password.
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The Little Handbook for Getting Stuff Done
December 9, 2018 • #A handbook of quick reminders of what gets in the way of productivity.
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A Couple Years with Todoist
December 7, 2018 • #“An overview of my workflow using Todoist the last couple of years.”
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The High Road
November 27, 2018 • #A reminder to take the high road and de-escalate, for sanity's sake.
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A Post Each Day
October 23, 2018 • #I've started a new effort to post each day for a month, trying to build writing into a habit.
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The Map Collection
October 17, 2018 • #“Cataloging my map collection using Fulcrum.”
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A Week with the iPad
October 11, 2018 • #Notes on 7 days of working on the iPad as a replacement for the Mac.
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Public Speaking
December 9, 2014 • #Thoughts on conference attendance and presentations.
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Rediscovering GTD
February 6, 2013 • #Getting back into GTD systems.
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