Is this productivity?
Oct. 7th, 2005 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsOmaha's been out of town since yesterday morning, when I sent her off on an Amtrak for Eugene Oregon and a game developer's conference. She's been in the dumps for a while about the progress her show is making, so hopefully contact with people who actually know about her show and listen to it will help.
I've been spending my free time sorting and filing. I had no idea how bad it had gotten. This morning I pulled through all of my files and began to organize stuff that's been molding in files for months. If you take a look at my del.icio.us folder, you'll see about twenty new entries, things that I've finally placed somewhere rather than have scattered about my filing cabinet. It's a weird collection: essays by Isaih Berlin and Ron Bailey, a reference article on rhetorical writing, 50 Tips for ADHD management, and how to tie-dye. In one way, this is just moving stuff from one cabinet to another, but it's at least accessible to me almost everywhere and not in a dusty corner of my household.
I'm a little worried about my desktop computer; after 202 days of uptime, it crashed twice in one day, hard, with nothing in the logs to indicate what went wrong, and the interval between reboot 1 and 2 was less than an hour. That indicates to me a power supply problem, but I just bought this power supply less than eight months ago. I dusted out the cabinet and it's been good for about five hours now. I'm trying to figure out how to install lm_sensors on it, but it's apparently an early AMD model with some twonky sensor settings. It would be nice to be able to monitor its behavior with the sensord server, even if it does crash again.
And I read with glee this morning an article by Kathy Sierra on Tom Kelly's analysis of the Devil's Advocate, and why such individuals are pure evil. As Sierra puts it, the Devil's Advocate is only trying to look helpful and thus can wear a winding sheet of innocent motives while in fact "ripping the throat from an idea one soul-stealing fear-based verbal attack." I think about a third of my projects have been killed by DAs. And I think DAs are most fatal in creative endeavors because creatives are, by definition, always teetering on the edge of depression anyway because they don't know that failure is possible. Introducing the concept of failure early in the blossoming of an idea kills it quicker than any other tactic.
I've been spending my free time sorting and filing. I had no idea how bad it had gotten. This morning I pulled through all of my files and began to organize stuff that's been molding in files for months. If you take a look at my del.icio.us folder, you'll see about twenty new entries, things that I've finally placed somewhere rather than have scattered about my filing cabinet. It's a weird collection: essays by Isaih Berlin and Ron Bailey, a reference article on rhetorical writing, 50 Tips for ADHD management, and how to tie-dye. In one way, this is just moving stuff from one cabinet to another, but it's at least accessible to me almost everywhere and not in a dusty corner of my household.
I'm a little worried about my desktop computer; after 202 days of uptime, it crashed twice in one day, hard, with nothing in the logs to indicate what went wrong, and the interval between reboot 1 and 2 was less than an hour. That indicates to me a power supply problem, but I just bought this power supply less than eight months ago. I dusted out the cabinet and it's been good for about five hours now. I'm trying to figure out how to install lm_sensors on it, but it's apparently an early AMD model with some twonky sensor settings. It would be nice to be able to monitor its behavior with the sensord server, even if it does crash again.
And I read with glee this morning an article by Kathy Sierra on Tom Kelly's analysis of the Devil's Advocate, and why such individuals are pure evil. As Sierra puts it, the Devil's Advocate is only trying to look helpful and thus can wear a winding sheet of innocent motives while in fact "ripping the throat from an idea one soul-stealing fear-based verbal attack." I think about a third of my projects have been killed by DAs. And I think DAs are most fatal in creative endeavors because creatives are, by definition, always teetering on the edge of depression anyway because they don't know that failure is possible. Introducing the concept of failure early in the blossoming of an idea kills it quicker than any other tactic.
