Greetings from gusty waterfront north Brooklyn! I just walked 1.5 miles to my daughters’ school pushing them in a wagon.
Everything warmed up on the way… except my poor cheeks. They will recover just in time to make the slog home.
If everyone survives, we’re ordering pizza with ravioli on it. TGIF.
New post: Pain Trains
This is a post about an obvious lesson I just (re)learned from my kids:
Theorem: it’s hard to feel good about things that hurt.
(ceteris paribus)
What hurts in your life, literally or metaphorically?
Is that pain teaching you something you want to learn?
Can you re-configure what hurts to help you form better habits and reach your goals?
The 100-Thought Challenge
Forgot to include this last time, but back in December I participated in Venkat’s now-infamous “Threadapalooza.”
—> Here are the 100+ tweets I generated on my assigned topic, conflict in relationships.
(I wrote the first half quite drunk and the second half stone-cold sober, compare and contrast?)
What I learned: As it turns out, a 100-thought challenge is a WONDERFUL way to stretch your creativity muscles and create something significant very quickly.
If you missed out on Threadapalooza but want to give this a try, just pop open a reply and ask me for a topic. I’m happy to share the gift of crash-course brainstorming.
Good reads:
Costco Capitalism: a quirky foray into normie consumer psychology.
What will you do to stay weird?: Congrats, y’all are my #7 - “Develop a small group of intensely weird but smart friends, and treat them as your relevant audience.” I think I have some “impenetrable terminology” too (*cough* ritualized conversation *cough*)
“Quiet wakefulness” - like sleeping but not: napping sounds good in theory but it’s fraught with potential stress - not falling asleep in time, oversleeping into grogginess, ruining night sleep. As it turns out, the “quiet wakefulness” I’ve been experimenting with has quite a bit of evidence in its favor.
Over-the counter medications have psychological/behavioral side effects: well that’s weird. In particular it seems that Tylenol reduces empathy and statins increase aggression (via lowering cholesterol). Not sure what to make of this (I’ll still take OTC meds) but maybe with some increased awareness.
Need more philosopher in your life? I’m selling things:
My intro session - the False Belief Fix-Up - is always available. It’s a short & sweet coaching session to get to know each other and deliver at least one actionable insight, not a glorified sales call.
I just launched Interlocutor as a Service - the standing offering born of my recent experiments in coaching/conversation by email. It sold out immediately, but you can pay now for February 1 start date.
Did you already attempt and fail at your New Years Resolution? There’s still time to reconsider what you’ll do this year and why. My Beyond the Resolutions values-first coaching program is open until the end of the month.
Ciao,
Pamela
2020: Issue 3 of 52
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