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  1. Nov 2024
    1. I've been down there enough times to see the same patterns repeat, and sometimes I can even interrupt them. That's why having goofy names for them matters so much, because it reminds me not to believe the biggest bog lie of all: that I'm stuck in a situation unlike any I, or anyone else, has ever seen before

      Giving repeating neg patterns wrt procrastination / not getting into action, a silly name helps in defeating the pattern (rather than beating yourself up over it I suppose).

  2. Nov 2022
    1. The novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler said he avoided reading books written by someone who didn’t “take the pains” to write out the words. (It used to be common for writers to dictate into a recorder then have an assistant transcribe those words.) “You have to have that mechanical resistance,” Chandler wrote in a 1949 letter to actor/writer Alex Barris. “When you have to use your energy to put those words down, you are more apt to make them count.”
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