dragon-in-a-fez

fog haters are weak. you are walking in a cloud and it's making everything look like a moody detective film! the veil is thin and there could be a faerie 20 metres directly ahead of you! appreciate it!!

regina-mathematicae

from Sachs and Wu's General Relativity for Mathematicians

I feel like I should add something, but there isn't anything else to say; the quote speaks for itself, I think

nigelgraz

Venting

reasonsforhope

By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.

Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.

This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):

Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):

Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.

But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:

• Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.
• Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation
• Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.
• Meditation
• Martial arts
• Sports in general
• Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)
• Woodworking
• Cooking
• If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers

Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.

heatherwitch

My resolution last year was to do one thing before bed that would make my morning feel easier, and that’s become a daily habit that I’m carrying into this new year.

Some nights even filling up the kettle and setting an empty mug out for my morning tea felt hard. But I was always thankful for it in the morning.

Other nights, one thing would lead to another, and I’d wake up in a clean house with everything ready to go.

And, on a rare few nights, the one thing that I could do to make my morning easier was going straight to bed and allowing myself to rest.

What stayed the same each day is that I would take a moment to think of what I could do for my future self and do it, even after a hard day. And I would wake up knowing that I had done my best and any effort—no matter how small—was a kindness to myself.

one-bite-is-undercover

I’ve been doing a lot of “a treat for future me” moments lately.

heatherwitch

That’s a great way to look at it, and I love this artist! (Anna-Laura: instagram / website)

waffle4brains

"I got that dog in me"

The dog in question:

exeggcute

the sunk cost fallacy has been my favorite fallacy for as long as I can remember. so at this point it's probably too late to pick a different one

midwinterarchives

Sunday, the 11th of January 2025

A week of being snowed in — shovelling snow every morning, hiking through mountains of white powder to the supermarket, sleepy reading and knitting after a day of online meetings. The monotony is comforting. On Friday, I dug the car out and drove to the city for a night at the opera. I submitted a draft for a brochure and the companion volume of our exhibition today and now withdrew to my desk and notebooks to reminisce about the past year.

📻 — the album 'winter' by lavinia meijer

📺 — 'listers: a glimpse into extreme birdwatching'

semperstudiesss

anyone have any time tracking app recommendations? Idc about apps that block your phone. I just need apps that track my time and allow me to divive it in different categories and then give me stats. Like, "you studied for 1hr, read for 30mins, did chores for 3hrs, 10% of your day was spent..." etc.

So far im using Focus Plant (i used to use Forest but the new updates made the free version basically unuseable) but the app's always lagged a lot and ads make it worst so usually i watch a whole bunch of ads every few days cause after you do that they dont pop up randomly anymore for a few days and the app runs a bit smoother but the past few days... i try to watch the ads and then at the end it literally does not give me the option to click out and get my "reward"? And instead takes me to the play store or opens a new tab for me and then when i go back it re-starts the app without counting that ive watched the ad?

It's so frustrating and makes the free version of the app so fucking annoying to use but it really helps me to see how much time i spend being productive and on what things so...

The one alternative ive found (still have to try it tho) so far is called Focumon. So i guess I'll see about that one.