A bit of a bumpy start to March's cycle training but otherwise time management is going better. Meanwhile I have thoughts about the insidious ways AI playlists are training us. I end with a link dump of some of the interesting things I've read recently.
This month I'm trying, yet again, to wrest my daily activities from the control of Chaos Wolf, close time leaks and get back on track.
We all came to the Internet and social media for something. Most of us seemed to get what we wanted for a while but now many of us are sticking around platforms out of inertia even as they get worse. What am I doing instead?
In today's entry I talk about my goals for 2026 - but also about the need to not put all one's eggs in one basket but to eat a few along the way to sustain yourself.
I'm an expert at dithering and finding excuses to avoid doing something I know will make me feel good. Yesterday not only did I push through it - I made video proof for my future self to capture just how wrong I was about what a chilly autumn ride would be.
In this entry I realize I am almost completely recovered from August's Covid infection - recovered enough to race my past self in many different ways.
Shifting gears again I'm now moving from quantitative metrics that don't make sense to me to qualitative ones like: I had some nice bike rides, am reading interesting things and am feeling happier and sleeping better than before.
Today I have so much energy I could go to work *and* write the rest of the entry I wanted to write yesterday about how my body responded to being sick. I owe much of it for being able to really take it easy for 10 days, living like our cat Squishy.
While I intended to write a long post, COVID got in the way. I'm confident that more will come later as recovery is definitely well underway.
Pivoting from tracking metrics of sleep, stress, and exercise, Todd moves on to tracking mood and content consumption in the experiment to improve his overall mood and well being.