jfw: I'm contemplating a title for that sales-y presentation of "Monsters Under the Bitcoin Bed", with the theme that the important risks to worry about lie in the darkness of the things you don't know, but become manageable as you learn and face them. This quote and
jfw: Taleb's turkey should make for good anchors
whaack: diana_coman: EOD Report: the bad: I spent 25 mins in the morning chatting+helping a friend back home with some trivial coding problem he had for his work. not engaging in irc until 1pm is pointless if I engage in a worse form of communication. the good: I had a moment of about 45 minutes of focused writing. method to improve: turn off heathen comms in the morning - the specific culprit was "iMessenger"
whaack: also: my schedule is shifted because today I had to go pickup the car, I didn't think I was going to have to do that until Friday.
diana_coman: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/ossasepia/2020-02-10#1018278 - ahaha, sounds great to me!
ossabot: Logged on 2020-02-10 23:07:28 jfw: I'm contemplating a title for that sales-y presentation of "Monsters Under the Bitcoin Bed", with the theme that the important risks to worry about lie in the darkness of the things you don't know, but become manageable as you learn and face them. This quote and
diana_coman: and yes, the anchors should do well.
diana_coman: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/ossasepia/2020-02-11#1018280 - turn it off indeed, wtf iMessenger anyway.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-02-11 01:35:17 whaack: diana_coman: EOD Report: the bad: I spent 25 mins in the morning chatting+helping a friend back home with some trivial coding problem he had for his work. not engaging in irc until 1pm is pointless if I engage in a worse form of communication. the good: I had a moment of about 45 minutes of focused writing. method to improve: turn off heathen comms in the morning - the specific culprit was "iMessenger"
diana_coman: whaack: schedule shift can happen like that, not a problem.
diana_coman: jfw: come to think of it, you could equally go for something like Monsters of the Bitcoin Depths or something, kind of depends on the tone you are aiming for and what you know of your audience.
whaack: diana_coman: My allocated writing time is up and I don't have something I can publish. And I was supposed to publish yesterday. I'm not sure how to go about fixing this. Even if I extended writing by 1.5 hours I don't know that I'd finish with something decent. I believe my problem comes from poor outlining.
diana_coman: whaack: in what way is the outlining poor/letting you down?
whaack: diana_coman: It doesn't create a path from point A to point B. It is just a list of notes. I've discussed this problem with you before and I think I repeated the error because I rushed to finish the article yesterday.
whaack: Also fwiw 1hr into writing the article I thought to myself "Man, I regret choosing this subject. I don't have much interesting to say here"
diana_coman: whaack: tsk@regrets; no regrets! lolz; if you don't have much interesting to say there, then and therefore you should find out more about the topic - aka go and get something interesting to say there but indeed, it won't come out of nowhere; you can always try to look at it from a different perspective - one that you know more about and therefore you have more to say about but you can't just dump it because difficult basically, wtf.
diana_coman: whaack: re no path from A to B - that means you needed to start today with another iteration on the outline essentially - you need to have *some idea* as to *what path* you mean between A and B, yes; so myeah, no article today and/or tomorrow, but 1. see if you need to change perspective/approach/what and/or what research to do in order to have something to say 2. fix/iterate on the outline until it is a useful one.
diana_coman: whaack: btw, re yesterday's eod - you should *also* note what you need to reinforce/do more of so that the good part repeats / becomes usual rather than extraordinary.
whaack: diana_coman: Alright. I will either do more research on my topic or change it slightly so that it focuses on points where I have something to say. And I will redo the outline tomorrow and publish on Thursday.
diana_coman: whaack: sounds good.
whaack: diana_coman: The good part from yesterday, the block of focus, I owe in part to using the new computer. I will see to it to remove any/all dependencies on my tolietbox.
whaack: for my new machine: I plan to disconnect it from DNS, but it makes sense to me to keep a way to do manual domain name resolution
diana_coman: whaack: what do you mean by manual DNS? you can always simply ping on toilet box to get the IP and then add that to the hosts file if you want it on your computer; or what do you mean?
whaack: that's what i meant, except w/ the pinging on my main comp
whaack: something like `ping -with-dns=200.11.13.41 "ossasepia.com"`
diana_coman: uhm; possibly dig I guess.
whaack: ok. I want to reduce the time I spend swiveling my chair to the tolietbox.
diana_coman: whaack: so see man dig
whaack: k
diana_coman: tbh I fail to see how exactly would you end up with a lot of dns lookup needs if you keep indeed that computer clean but anyways.
BingoBoingo curious to see whan the motor carriage will be revealed on ztkfg
whaack: BingoBoingo: ETA Saturday
BingoBoingo: cool
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