periodically revisiting productivity/personal growth advice that I failed to implement before seems important hard to implement high level changes, character growth etc under a great deal of stress, scarcity mindset re: literally everything that can be described as scarce or not
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most importantly, it actually answers the one thing I've been struggling with most this year: how to prioritize things that are important but not urgent things you can slide on, things that are only disastrous to neglect if you neglect them repeatedly gym, diet, rest
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you know the things that you drop first in a crisis I spent most of my formative years in a constant state of crisis. it's brutal, but comfortable.
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the seductive thing about crises is that they excuse every other failure if you can tell a good story about why you failed if you can convince yourself that you're handling the most important things
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I'm seduced not just by crises, but anywhere people can't "get at me" travel, commuting, even restrooms it was a running joke growing up that I had to pee whenever major chores needed to be done I also used restrooms for sensory relief
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I'm pretty good at knowing how to tell a story that garners enough sympathy to get a "break" I wonder if that fed the anxiety/depression a bit which isn't to say that they weren't "real" problems but being visibly distressed/flustered/overwhelmed, especially as a young woman..
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...is a powerful tool.
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telling a good story is important for dealing with edge cases we even have room in the legal system for stories
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one thing that gets missed by those who prefer rules-based, logically exploitable systems (the munchkins) is that a system unresponsive to distress signals, storytelling, sympathy-garnering is fucking terrifying for people who survive on those tactics
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A major case against replacing all contract law with blockchain code: there’s a lot of stuff in society that depends on being able to ask for extensions/exceptions/etc, and just cannot work if strictly enforced according to the rules. Transition would suck.
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yep iirc you had a blog post on this as well I think another cost is going to be the subtle discomfort of interacting much more with entities that don't respond *like humans* like the current aggravation of dealing with bureaucracy but even more so
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