Miscellaneous blogging #1
Somewhere along the road between Wyuna Bay and Coromandel town, New Zealand. Photo by myself.
A busy week this week: a lot of things done, but not as much time to get my thoughts in order. So this may end up being a list of things more than a single post with a single cohesive topic. Though that might not be a bad thing?
I'm back from my trip to Thames and the Coromandel peninsula, looking at pretty trees and old gold mining history. Not much to say about it, except that it is a very beautiful part of the country and small town museums are quite a bit more interesting than you might think.
One day this week I forgot my work laptop at home, probably because in the morning I unplugged it to plug a charger for something else in then did other morning routine stuff, then went to work. This is something that seems to happen quite a bit to me, to the point where I sometimes joke that my brain has a stack space of about four. But why is that? It's interesting to think of 'semantically similar' tasks, which fit in a close enough conceptual space that in some intuitive sense they become the same thing to your brain. But of course this is all subconscious and you only actually realise this when you've actually forgot that important thing you absolutely needed to bring.
So how do you fix this? The heavyweight solution is to implement a bunch of checklists, perhaps complete with pointing at the things you need to remember a la Japanese train drivers. But that is too inflexible for most daily tasks. Perhaps you just need a single specific space for everything - and if you have too many things, remove stuff until it all fits.
I heard people like getting their newsletters through email. The blogging platform I'm using has a premium feature for setting up an email list, but not actually for doing the emails themselves. Of course, as a small artisanally produced blog, I can probably just maintain the email list myself and do the classic startup trick of pretending to automate the process while actually doing it all manually behind the scenes. So, if you want to get these posts in your inbox, just put your email in my brand new feedback form and I'll sort out getting emails blasted out whenever I post. You can also write whatever comments you want if you're so inclined. Is this like saying like and subscribe? You can do that too if you want.