adric | MCU and some thoughts on practice

Some books I've been reading / listening to continue to provide both motivation and practical ideas for some work I've long wanted to do ... or tried to start many times without succeeding. They also overlap every now and then even though they are guides to different paths which I fine pretty interesting and encouraging.

Books

Here then are the books that I've found helpful in one way or another of late. In the way of this world these books might also have clubs, web sites, mobile applications and/or subscriptions services ... here I'm talking about the books:

Why Buddhism Is True: Robert Wright (also in previous post here)
Atomic Habits: James Clear
Ballet Beautiful: Mary Helen Bowers
Your Beauty Mark: Dita von Teese with Rose Apodaca
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: Dan Harris and Jeff Warren with Carlye Adler

Practice

With some failure and restarting in the last year or so, I've mostly managed to acquire these new healthy habits (though I work every week to keep them):

Stretching every day, trying for twice a day: some static and dynamic stretches
exercising with stretching more than once a week: some strength work and some fake bicycle riding
(some skin and hair stuff elided)

I'm still trying to make space (in terms of time and energy) for all of the work and studying I want to do / think I should be doing. Besides everything hinted at here, there all of the infosec and hacking stuff (addressed elsemush), and the languages I enjoy playing with.

In a near overlap of this work and hacking I'm still experimenting with software and data analysis in support of good habits and adding new ones (as well as todo lists and the like). For example I was inspired by but didn't got much use yet out of the charts provided with Atomic Habits. For now (2021 YTD) I've just been throwing the data into a spreadsheet, as in the design phase of every good data pipeline ;)

Cat

The cat beast Chani, who made her first Internet appearance on this journal many years ago, is still hanging around after a health scare last month and despite being well, almost fifteen years old. We suspect she hates us too much to leave ... *shrug*