Reframing the acceleration of addictiveness

Tantek Çelik knocks it out of the park with his The Acceleration of Addictiveness vs Willpower, Productivity, and Flow, putting a more positive spin on Paul Graham's Acceleration of Addictiveness:

Paul concludes his essay with We'll increasingly be defined by what we say no to. He's right, we will and are.

The problem is, "saying no" is expensive. It costs you willpower to do so. Explicitly saying no doesn't scale. We need automatic or default ways to "say no". The best word we have for that is "filters".

... and:

This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.

The time you spend giving into your urges and supporting your addictions is time you could have spent being creative and productive.

Tantek is collecting practical, constructive information about how to improve the odds on his personal wiki. Great reading.

Smells like a pre-Internet library in here

Here is a list of things that I tend to hoard (where I define hoard as "keep more (or longer than) needed, or conserve or manage more than the effort involved warrants"):

* Alaska license plates (I had to get the obvious one out of the way first)
* books and magazines
* cardboard boxes
* coins
* computers and peripherals
* computer adapters, cords and computer-related tools
* dowls, rods, tubes
* ID cards
* movie stubs
* paper
* pens and pencils
* plane tickets
* twist ties
* water

... and here are the things that I think that my wife hoards:

* books and magazines
* candles
* checks
* coffee cups
* cookbooks
* glass jars
* greeting cards received
* leftovers
* toiletries

Obviously, we have many bookshelves.

Better late than never

I just realized that I didn't mention something important here.

We had a baby!

1400 Pages by Ms. B

Steph came home yesterday with seven (!) copies of her dissertation -- 200 pages times seven = 1400 pages of philosophy.



Soon, they were speeding on their way to St. Louis!