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meditation
- Goal Progress: November
We had a hurricane blow up part of a week of productivity around here, but I still limped along with some middling progress on the year's goals. I'm behind the targets this year late in the game, but I'm still happy w…
- Goal Progress: October
October is over already? At this rate, it'll be New Years in no time flat. Anyway, let's check in on the 2020 goals: | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|…
- Goal Progress: September 2020
For the month of September: | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| | Running | 484.26 miles | 488 miles |…
- Goal Progress: August 2020
Another month down of quarantine life. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| | Running | 426.44 miles |…
- Portal
Portal is a simple iOS app that loops ambient sounds, as a sleep, focus, or meditation aid. I just started using it while working and it's very nice. It uses a 3-dimensional soundscape that sounds fantastic with nice…
- Goal Progress: July
A quick touch on progress for July. I can't believe it's already been 5 months since the beginning of the pandemic. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|-…
- Goal Progress: June
These updates during the quarantine are weird. In some ways time feels like it's standing still, in others it feels like it's flying by. Every day feels mostly the same. Even though some has opened up in our area, we'…
- Goal Progress: May 2020
Just a quick update this month. With the pandemic still going, lockdown in a state of unknown non-committal from any authority, and the madness going on around the nation the past week, all of this seems kinda trivial…
- Goal Progress: April 2020
April was the first full calendar month of COVID lockdown. In the beginning of the month I started getting comfortable with the working-from-home setup. I have a decent desk setup and a large master bedroom-slash-offi…
- Goal Progress: March
So March has wrapped, probably the longest month we've had in many years. The shake-up in schedule, work-life patterns, and disruptions in everything from kids, to family, to day-to-day activities played absolute hell…
- Goal Progress: February
A quick update for February. No big revelations or movements on goals, just slight progress. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|-------------|-------------|--------------|------------…
- Goal Progress: January
The first month of 2020 is already in the books. 31 days blew by already? It’s been a rollercoaster of a first few weeks, with some vacation at New Years, shot out of a cannon with a reinvigorated team at work, a trip…
- Goal Summary: Meditation
First up on the year in review is the meditation practice. I started out doing short meditation sessions sort of randomly late last year. I'd only remember to do it occasionally, maybe a couple times a week. While tha…
- Goal Progress: November
This was a busy one. Between the All Hands earlier in the month and the week off for the holidays, those are brutal to maintaining the routine (though great to get a break and spend time with both workmates and family…
- Goal Progress: October
The big achievement this month was the culmination of the half marathon training, ending October by finishing my first one. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|---------…
- Weekend Reading: Baseball Graphics, the Mind Illuminated, and the Crucial Century
⚾️ How Many Outs? Baseball Graphics Compared Some top-notch baseball geekery, with Jason Snell comparing the graphics overlays from Fox, MLB Network, and ESPN’s telecasts. I’ve thought about this, too, but have to giv…
- Goal Progress: September
In September the training push continued for the half marathon. I did a personal record 88 miles in the 30 days, for an average of just about 3 miles per day the whole month. Somehow I'm not dead yet, but the aches an…
- Goal Progress: August
This month I made a concerted effort to kick it into a higher gear with the running. Mid-month was the start of the Strava training plan I'm going to try and follow for race preparation. | Activity | Progress | Pace |…
- Goal Progress: July
I had surprisingly good results on goals this July given how much was going on all month. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------…
- Goal Progress: June
So that's a wrap on the month of June. This was my best month so far in terms of a consistent plan and feeling more productive with staying on target. Even with an out-of-town trip to visit the Cape and Jacksonville f…
- Goal Progress: May
For the second half of the month I got into a good rhythm with every-other-day running. I was even able to push almost 5 miles beyond the pace target to end the month. I started running with the kids again in the jogg…
- Goal Progress: April
I was able to stay on track this past month toward my 2019 goals. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| |…
- Goal Progress: March
Month three is in the books. A seriously eventful month for us, so I'm surprised I was able to stay ahead of the curve. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|-------------…
- It’s Not About the Number
As I’ve been pushing onward with daily meditation practice on Headspace, the “streak” number has been climbing higher and higher. I have mixed feelings about this in terms of driving motivation. Is the desire to incre…
- Goal Progress: February
We just crossed month number two of the year, so here’s another pulse check on how I’m tracking against some personal goals for 2019. I’m tracking on all fronts, slightly better positioned against the pace marks than…
- Goal Progress: January
This is the first year I set some goals on a few things. I’ve never been strongly goal-oriented, so I thought I’d put some stuff down to hold myself accountable and see if it helps build some healthy habits into my ro…
- Spirituality Without Religion
As I’ve been trying to bootstrap into a meditation practice, most of my learnings have been from various podcast episode discussions and a couple of books on the topic. My approach thus far hasn’t been to try and dig…
- Meditation Progress
Since late last year I've been keeping up with practicing every day. Mostly 10 minute sessions, but recently I've been upping that to 15. {% include image-partial.html file="headspace-50-days.jpg" description="50 days…
- Peter Attia and Zubin Damania Conversation
I’ve listened to a few of Peter Attia’s The Drive podcast episodes. This one was a stand-out conversation between him and Dr. Zubin Damania. It’s a wide-ranging discussion about the health care system, diet, creativit…
- Self Reliance and Introspection
The nearly 2000 year old Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is likely the first ever entry in the “self help” publishing genre. During his last days as Roman Emperor, reigning from 161-180 AD, he wrote the 12 “books” that…
- Weekend Reading: Railway Logos, Meditation, and the Next Feature Fallacy
🔩 The Next Feature Fallacy The vast majority of features won’t bend the curve. These metrics are terrible, and the Next Feature Fallacy strikes because it’s easy to build new features that don’t target the important…
- Orbiting the Earth, and Other Zen Videos
This is a 92 minute 4K video taken from the International Space Station as it orbits Earth, in real-time: If you've got an Apple TV and used their "Aerial" screensavers, this'll look familiar. Most of those ones are d…