2024-09-09
These first two points are arguing benefits of the new activities; the rest is rambly other notes.
The main purpose of this is to ensure that the diary only tells me the events of the day; it can be used as a proxy of the task list, and in fact can serve to replace it entirely, given that I will list in the diary all of the things that I do in terms of my tasks. The task list does show more clearly what has been done and what needs to be done, but in a way that is more... depressing, and relates to the previous mode of endless pursuit of efficiency or of progress. As such, the diary is essentially a less depressing tracker of tasks as well as a measure of the things I did during the day.
The journal on the other hand serves the usual purpose of documenting thoughts, rambling, etc.
Alongside getting more social events, movie nights and other things, the main purpose of this is to allow for a period of destressing, where media is not inherently meant to be productive, but is meant instead to relax. The reason for a movie above a series is the lack of commitment needed: to watch a movie, all is needed is a few hours, where to watch a series time is needed to commit to the entire series, and possibly even later series. It may take multiple sittings, and so contributes to mental load.
Likewise, going out has the same advantage, only it is outside of the home, and so gives the usual benefits expected of that.
The ideal seems to be having good recovery modes. That means if I get set back, or in some way lose progress, I can still end up progressing over the course of time because I end up resuming, only with a different mindset or mode. I have done this for about a year in terms of health for instance, where I began just doing weights in my room, then transitioned to training on the bike, then went back to training in my room, and now to the gym; I am continuing the training but in a way learning and changing it over time, beginning new things that maintain the overall progress. I think this is a good thing; sadly, it doesn't apply to everything. For instance, I do not do the same in terms of guitar and I don't know how to do it. I suppose the style in terms of guitar is to still practise guitar, but instead of just doing Here Comes the Sun all the time, to learn other things, and so continue to progress but not necessarily on the same thing. Really, I don't think that I am progressing well by just practising Here Comes the Sun, so I suppose this approach would be good to do.
I think I heard somewhere about this: having good recovery modes in case of failure. I think that was in another context, but I think it applies here. If this is the case, I will end up trialling slight variations on each approach, and thereby orient myself towards the optimal solution... this also reminds of JReg's idea about frameworks. In other words, my framework regarding, say, exercise is to attempt different methods, i.e. home-gymming, bike-riding, gymming, and I orient myself towards the one that works for me over time. Likewise, in terms of doing the guitar, I just need to keep on doing it and orient myself towards the best way of learning guitar for me (which may change over time) and can then find a good system over time.
I think that makes sense!
For quite a while I've been deliberating over creating the "perfect" systems language, a C wrapper I've called Close, after an operating system (that never became anything) and the idea for the associated language, etc. that I was thinking of and developing a bit (using some C# library that does OSs) - I wonder if I could deliberate about the language development in wv as well. Maybe though, that is just me foisting whatever I can into wv to just try to pad out the words. Really, I still don't know what I want to write in wv, or what I should. The concept of a wordvomit is confusing in itself: I suppose it is used for any unstructured writing that is not really worth reading in a sense but is rather only there for the satisfaction of the writer, or I suppose, is there to get words out without being "quality", in some sense.
I think that it really doesn't matter what I put here. That said, I don't want to use this as a way to expound on language design, especially given how bad at it I am. I think that would be better served with an individual page on the website; otherwise, I am really just padding out the words by saying the same thing many times. (Isn't that what I do already?)
I suppose I have enough words to play with to discover this, or to spend some time (later) to consider what I actually need to do in terms of writing, and whether I want to (or should, here) write anything more meaningful. The issue is partly that I have several places in the website I want to write to: I have the /wv page, which is used for... I suppose less structured writing, /blog, which is for a blog (but what is a blog?), /poetry and /wr which are more clear.
So, I could make the following distinction: /wv is for general, unstructured wordvomits which may or may not be on a worthwhile topic; /wr is for proper writing, specifically prose; /poetry is for poetry not prose, but again it's for writing that I might call "good" (well, I wouldn't say anything I write is good, but the hope is that with time I might get better at it). Then what is /blog? I suppose it could be for personal life updates, but that would be the point of /now, I suppose. It could be for writing that is on a specific point and so is less rambly than wv, but is not quite an artistic project as /wr or /poetry are meant to be. I think this could be a sensible delimitation.
I'll have to mull it over.
For now, have a good one.