A Wanderer
Not all who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
I am a recently retired accountant/finance professional looking to explore all of the interests I have had over the years, promising myself that I would pursue them “when I had the time”. Maybe you are on a similar journey.
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Nature Observations
Yesterday and today I spent time taking pictures of plants, identifying them (initially with Google Lens and then with the National Audubon Field Guide to Trees and the iNaturalist site), and then posting the ones I could identify to the iNaturalist site. A good advance on my naturalist skills. I listened to a Tim Ferriss…
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Cal Newton – Working Memory .txt
I was listening to a Deep Questions podcast and Cal did a segment on what he calls WorkingMemory.txt, a text file with thoughts that pop up that you jot down to free working memory. Here is a link to the blog post Cal wrote on the subject – https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2015/10/27/deep-habits-workingmemory-txt-the-most-important-productivity-tool-youve-never-heard-of/. In the comments to the blog…
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Subtract
From a blog post from Derek Silvers: “No amount of adding will get me to where I want to be. The adding mindset is deeply ingrained. It’s easy to think I need something else. It’s hard to look instead at what to remove. The least successful people I know run in conflicting directions, are drawn to…
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Comfort Zone
I had a free morning today, with the family not arriving until lunch. I decided to take the kayak out for the first time. I was anxious about it, as I had been whenever I thought I should take it out. It is out of my comfort zone. I did take it out and it…
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Aging
Ryan North, in his book “How to Take Over the World”, on page 225 says “‘Old age’ is not what kills you; it’s cancer or heart disease or Alzheimer’s or pneumonia or one of the hundreds of other ailments, diseases, and infections we’ve identified and named …”. David Sinclair, in his book Lifespan: “Why We…
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