my final weeks of unemployment have been characterized by habit-based malaise and terror at the future but out of that froth has come some cool stuff.

the first tipping point was getting my phone use back under control. unfortunately if left unchecked i reach a point where pulling it out of my pocket, unlocking it, and scrolling through twitter is an action that gets baked into some deep subroutine in my brain so i’m doing it before i even know it, and returning to a full lockdown (no fun apps/sites on the phone, ever, at all) has snapped me back to reality in a major way, and i have some momentum to invest in other ventures. even better is my watch empowers me to leave my phone on its charger, or at home while i’m out. i’ve been daydreaming again, something i forgot was a thing you can do.

i’ve been putting off qigong as it is poison to procrastination and that part of me has been in charge for a few weeks, so it was built up as a Thing for a while, but friend of the site mycelium mage gave me the right push at the right time to break the dam. part of my block was that my main practice takes a while to do. mage pointed me in the direction of another routine that was simply too short to talk myself out of. it is phenomenal and inspired me to come up with an even shorter version that helps me remember that qigong is something you do all the time and not just when you’re actually doing it. good stuff.

all of this freed/generated energy has to go somewhere, especially when i’m not putting it right into my phone, and i’ve been thinking a lot about ai and all the doors it opens. and i have an Idea. i don’t have time to write about it now but i’m excited about it in a way that feels new, and i’m going to do it, i think. so stay tuned on that.