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"The Fediverse is great! C'mon and join us! Just pick an instance and get started!"

...4 toots later...

"Shame on you for being part of /that/ instance! It's full of [bad people] and I'm going to scold you about it every time you post anything from now on."

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Joan Westenberg: Be a Magpie

Every single one of these systems works for someone. Getting Things Done genuinely transforms lives for people whose brains work a certain way. Bullet Journaling provides structure that some people desperately need. The problem comes when we treat these systems as complete, hermetically sealed units that you either adopt wholesale or reject entirely.

The magpie knows better. It understands something that productivity gurus spend entire books dancing around: good ideas are where you find them. The optimal approach isn't to pledge allegiance to one system and defend it against all competitors. The optimal approach is to steal liberally from everything and build something that actually functions for your specific brain.

I think I'm a Magpie.

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People get so worked up over an hour. It's an HOUR, sheesh.

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I'm one day into my experiment using only terminal apps in November and I'm already exhausted. I have to relearn everything about everything. All the tools are different (assuming I even know which one to use) and just about every keybinding has changed. I'm stumbling over myself constantly. What's worse is that I can't decide what to use for things. This is not new to me, but the context is. I want to find a good way to journal or log things. So far, I'm trying nb and jrnl and my own OBTF. Can't decide.