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looking nice and feeling nice

2022-11-07

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I had a pretty good day yesterday, got a lot done considering I slept in a fair bit. I'm still sick, very congested this morning.

I did yoga this morning, and provided I pick up more inner tubes today I'll go climbing this evening. I've decided not to treat climbing as part of my daily exercises, as I too often miss it and then miss out of activity. I want to try doing a workout in the morning, alternating with yoga, for a 3 day split.

Moved the desk

I have had a desk sitting in the garage for a year now, I was always intent on selling it. Intent might not be the right word, as I did very little towards actually shifting it out. Yesterday I bought it back upstairs and put it in my room again. It's meant to hold things, like my midi keyboard or the iMac, so that the big desk can be completely cleared if it needs to be. It introduces a bit more visual clutter, but I think in a day or two I'll figure it out a bit more, and also I don't think clutter is necessarily bad all the time.

I have been thinking about how I get caught up in "interior design inspo" thinking without understand my room as a place that serves my needs. If I can understand my needs better, I can bring my room to serve them, and the question of looking nice and feeling nice can come holistically. That being said, I'm still going to indulge a little interior design inspo, here's a channel where I've been slowly collecting things:

a place I want to live

These thoughts push me more into my personal inventory plans, I ought to make a start.

Human understanding, computational process

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

I started in earnest on The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs last night. I was spurred on by earlier fruitful creating and practicing of west-space exhibition flash cards, reminding me that complex information is not so complex as it seems, and with a little effort I can comprehend many things. It's a good read, I think I'm going to get a lot out of it. Even thought summarising each chapter slows me down, the chapters are broken up into good sections and it's easy to pick out the core info from each. The above quote begins the first chapter, and is reflected in the ideas around what makes a powerful programming language:

  1. Primitive expressions of data
  2. Processes for combining expressions
  3. Processes for abstracting

At least, that's how I understand it this morning.

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