Survived the one day retreat today with my Zen sangha. Legs and back are a little sore but otherwise it was a great experience.
Survived the one day retreat today with my Zen sangha. Legs and back are a little sore but otherwise it was a great experience.
Got up for my second week volunteering with the food bank. Going a lot faster this week (or at least it feels that way).
“What Buddhism Teachers of Self and No-Self”
The idea of non-self is sort of a hard concept at first, but makes a lot of sense the more you consider it.
I wrote a Shortcut that downloads the gravatar image for all of your contacts that have an email but no photo (and have a Gravatar). I feel like a genius.
Based on this PEW poll, it seems like the only thing Republican voters really get fired up about is immigration. Which would explain a lot. apple.news/Ae5yJxfSU…
When I first started looking at the Shortcuts app I couldn’t really think of much I wanted to do with it, and now I have four or five that I use all the time.
Feeling quite anxious today and not sure why. Maybe a walk would do me good.
Volunteered driving around, picking up donated groceries and lifting heavy boxes for the first time today at the Queen Anne Food Bank. It feels good to do something helpful to other people without being rewarded for it.
Oh I thought of a second thing. It’s a crime that you can’t trigger a Shortcut based using automation in the Home app.
The only thing I would like (and I’m really surprised is missing) is to be able to also say to AirPlay the podcast to one of my HomePods instead of having it play through my phone.
My favorite Shortcut I’ve made so far is called “I’m up.” It turns on all my lights, marks my “up by 8:30” habit complete in Productive (if it’s early enough), and starts playing the Up First podcast by NPR.
I need to declare Finder Tags bankruptcy, delete all the ones I have and figure out if there’s a system that can actually make them useful.
The biggest thing I’ve noticed from intentionally eating significantly less sugar is that I don’t get hungry so much, so I end up eating less overall. Most days I’m eating some version of rice with a vegetables and tofu with a little reduced-sodium soy sauce.
Purchased a new kapok meditation cushion and matching zabuton from DharmaCrafts that I’m really liking. Considering a bamboo mat to cover the floor and maybe replacing my little bookshelf eventually.
The community aspect of Insight Timer is nice, but them seeming fairly uninterested in an API/Siri Shorcuts/something makes me want to make my own meditation timer.
I am on a quest to use all of my Imperfect Produce box this week. So far it’s going pretty well.
Leaning towards the 40mm Apple Watch Series 4. I think as a man with non-massive wrists I could probably go either way and be okay and be fine.
Finding the Field Notes reporters notebook — paired with a Palomino Blackwing 602 — to be the perfect size for my running list of things I’m thinking/working on I keep on my desk.
I’ve been thinking about what I eat and how to be more mindful of it. I think I’d like to cut the amount of added sugar I eat way down, and replace any meals that come out of a microwave with more things like rice and vegetables.
Looking for a recommendation for code snippet tool which integrates well with Xcode. I’m aware of Xcode and Dash, but maybe there’s others that do this better?
The Palomino Blackwing 602s are pretty expensive for pencils, but also seemingly last forever, so are probably worth it.
I’ve started using the Timing app to track my workday, and am seeing a nice improvement in my productivity over the last few days.
“Blow away.”
Everything with the Apple Watch is like “here’s something kind of cool we only didn’t take all the way.”
I’m not ruling out that I’ll get a new iPad, but I’m not really planning on it. The Air 2 is still fine for testing, and I’ve just never found my use to be enough to justify the $800+ a new one will costing.