Idiomdrottning

For me GTD was lifesaving.

I just realized that I’ve been pretty reckless and unempathetic as I advocate for handwriting and paper.

Lately I’ve been using the +”%y-%V” date format a lot and I wanted a weekday format to optionally append to that (although most of the time the weekly granularity is enough) and landed on MTWRFSU for odd weeks and mtfwrsu for even weeks.

Yes, there is a tension between how in minimalism we want less physical stuff whereas how among smartphone haters we have this tendency to accrue a bunch of single-use items.

Oh wait I just realized that it’s the 20th anniversary (approximately) since I got on GTD!

I moved my GTD system back to paper in the fall of 2023 and a few weeks ago I started using very thick A5-sized notebook as an index into all my other paper notebooks and calendars (and there are some references to digital files and folders in there too).

The work-first principle (“arbetslinjen”) was instituted for pretty good reason: a welfare state requires a high rate of employment to fund itself.

With a patronizing scoff of pity I looked at a tyrannical app in another land.

As per ushe my reviews can get pretty spoileriffic because they are meant for writers who like to think about books they have already read rather than for readers who are deciding what book to read.

Restaurants, please don’t make halloumi, paneer, “grilloumi” or similar hard cheeses be your “vegetarian” option because they are almost twice as bad for the climate as even pork is (and pork is already super bad).

A family member yesterday who is going on an aoroplane vacation said “I know you don’t like that” and I was like… it doesn’t matter what I think.

Sometimes you still hear that society is polarized and we need to move towards the middle.

Okay, with this variant you win when the opponent can’t make a move on the board and is out of reserve pieces, just like the original 1960s game, but you only have six moves to win!

Okay so I went on this rabbithole of anti-smartphone stuff online (don’t worry, my goody-two-shoes writing-things-down-on-paper self said that I could) and one thing that came up a few times was the whole “phones and social media are actually super necess…

Lots to love in this book.

My war against Screen and against Online is over and this is the peace treaty: No screen without a matching TODO item.

When we talk about solving climate change (ration energy, leave the fossils in the ground, any DACCS and BioCCS should be funded directly instead of as an excuse to burn more fossils, fix market capitalism’s bugs or replace it outright, tax the rich, get…

I want my anti-smartphone books to be red-hot and flaming Molotov cocktails thrown uncompromisingly at the algo silo surveillance mental ice age. 🔥🍾 I want The Interior Castle.

I have three different devices with either Google Play or Apple Appstore.

This is an empathy exercise, but don’t worry: you’re gonna get to hate someone along the way if you want to.

I’ve been reading 1960s news (my grandpa saved a bunch of news yearbooks) as an alternative to internet and so far the most striking—and this goes for other books I’ve lead from fifties through nineties was that it was from a world of hope, a world that c…

I’ve asked for climate change to permeate every story in news media but oh wow, what a monkey’s paw.

Here’s an idea for an original board game about 160000 samurai fighting it out.

Paper Magic is notoriously untimeable with its ten APNAP windows per turn, plus two more APNAP widows for every spell or ability, including for triggered abilities.

But you know the right wing has one idea: rich get richer.

I’ve mentioned a couple of times that a commensurate carbon tax would have to be infinite or larger than infinite (and that rationing is a better solution).

On the NES version of Clu-Clu Land, Bubbles goes to a rave between levels as the background screen rapidly cycles.