Comments on: The road to Ossasepia, part 6 http://jfxpt.com/2019/the-road-to-ossasepia-part-6/ The search for invariants Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:24:20 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Diana Coman http://jfxpt.com/2019/the-road-to-ossasepia-part-6/#comment-23 Diana Coman Thu, 14 Nov 2019 08:11:25 +0000 http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/?p=49#comment-23 Eh, you clearly push those out of sight and out of mind and you'd push them out of the edge of the world if only it were flat enough to allow such a thing! Anyways, since you start today writing them in the morning, the "starting exhausted" part should not apply anymore and so that's one item taken care of. For the other, that feeling of can't yet my finger on it is a sort of "loading..." bar of the mind, not a problem in itself but ALSO, not something to just stare at while it blinks stuck in place for one hour (or more). There are two main choices there: think of the topic and start writing continuously whatever comes to mind about it - after a while/at some point, something will come into focus and then you'll need to retrace ground and see what it was; alternatively, give it a clear deadline for background processing ie stop writing then and there but commit to get back to it and write it no-matter-what in x hours. This may easily backfire especially at first if you use it as avoidance, obviously. The good news is that once you actually form the habit of writing daily and so you know each evening that you'll *have to* write something next morning, the background work will start too (at least after you had enough of failure every morning so that's up to you, how much of it is needed). Eh, you clearly push those out of sight and out of mind and you'd push them out of the edge of the world if only it were flat enough to allow such a thing! Anyways, since you start today writing them in the morning, the "starting exhausted" part should not apply anymore and so that's one item taken care of. For the other, that feeling of can't yet my finger on it is a sort of "loading..." bar of the mind, not a problem in itself but ALSO, not something to just stare at while it blinks stuck in place for one hour (or more). There are two main choices there: think of the topic and start writing continuously whatever comes to mind about it - after a while/at some point, something will come into focus and then you'll need to retrace ground and see what it was; alternatively, give it a clear deadline for background processing ie stop writing then and there but commit to get back to it and write it no-matter-what in x hours. This may easily backfire especially at first if you use it as avoidance, obviously.

The good news is that once you actually form the habit of writing daily and so you know each evening that you'll *have to* write something next morning, the background work will start too (at least after you had enough of failure every morning so that's up to you, how much of it is needed).

]]> By: Jacob Welsh http://jfxpt.com/2019/the-road-to-ossasepia-part-6/#comment-22 Jacob Welsh Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:04:28 +0000 http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/?p=49#comment-22 Yes :( I had this feeling that there was more I should be saying but couldn't put my finger on it. And probably didn't help that I was starting exhausted at the end of a long day. Which was poor time management again, in particular it looks like I allowed the auction and travel planning to throw me off. Yes :( I had this feeling that there was more I should be saying but couldn't put my finger on it. And probably didn't help that I was starting exhausted at the end of a long day. Which was poor time management again, in particular it looks like I allowed the auction and travel planning to throw me off.

]]> By: Diana Coman http://jfxpt.com/2019/the-road-to-ossasepia-part-6/#comment-21 Diana Coman Wed, 13 Nov 2019 09:50:24 +0000 http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/?p=49#comment-21 Bah, at this rate the next "installment" will have 5 words total + another 10 cited. Did you really spin for 60 minutes around 131 words? Bah, at this rate the next "installment" will have 5 words total + another 10 cited. Did you really spin for 60 minutes around 131 words?

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