Daily notes from Jack about everything

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Partly cloudy 75.0 | Low 67.3, High 73.8
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I imagine life without being able to consult my many deliverables from my phone and some unpleasant part of my personality sends a jolt to the pain and nausea centers, hitting the intersection of old work trauma and pigheaded nerd completionism.

Mike Hall - Seeking Friction

I know the feelings, but I'm learning to repress them. I've also been thinking a lot about the value of friction. What is just the right amount?


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Making things easier, doesn't

Since I'll be down to a single computer soon, I thought it would be fun to move things out of the ~/Sync folder, since I won't be needing that.

hahahahaha

Do you have any idea how many places I hard-coded that path? I knew there'd be some, but my life the past two days has been all about updating paths. In scripts, code, settings, symlinks, everywhere. It may have been a mistake.