I spent most of the week organising things for my business and continued with the last bits of research for the paper I’m writing. I’m still a little unfocused and distracted, but I’m getting through it better than I have been lately.
I do often wonder how it works for other people. Do they sit at the computer and start working on what needs doing? Do they have an impulse to get around to working on the checklist they’ve done? I’d love to know because that is so far from how my brain works.
I had an immovable task last week, and I thought I’d start it, but it was impossible for several days until the deadline was upon me. I thought, ok, I’ll start a little and give myself room only to do a little of it, then stop or do something else. What actually ensued is that as soon as I’d started it, I couldn’t stop it until it was finished.
I cleaned my deck with a pressure washer this morning, and like the task in the week, it was precisely the same. As soon as I’d started to do the first bit, allowing myself a break if I wanted, then I ended up not only doing it all, but I washed a concrete platform that I have around the back of the house that had accumulated dirt and other grime, then threw in for good measure four plastic chairs that needed a good clean. I spent all morning doing this.
I earned my ti’punch.
Reading
My reading of the books I mentioned continues, and I’m progressing well. Sometimes I feel too tired in the evening, but on the whole, I dedicate a little bit of time to the task every day.
If you’re like me, you’ve heard of, with horror, the proposed/launched project called Worldcoin. You’ve seen my thoughts, but I thought I’d share an excellent article on the project. Molly White’s newsletter does a good job of introducing and explaining the reasons why you might want this project to fail. I think it is ridiculous and extremely naive to believe that this would not be a massive target for scammers, criminals and mafia-type syndicates to exploit the vulnerable. Let’s hope some sense prevails.
My disdain of Facebook (or “Meta” if you prefer) is well known. I stumbled upon this article, and I think you should read it, regardless of your position vis a vis Mark Zuckerberg.
Of note
For those of you who use or have used the Eurostar train service between London and Paris, a consortium(paywalled) is trying to set up a rival service through the same tunnel and over the same tracks. There are a lot of ducks to get lined up (regulation, types of trains, capacity, etc), but it might be interesting.
We’re getting into the holiday season, so things might be a little slow on the news front for a few weeks.
Have a good week.
