Each year for the Super Bowl, I whip up party food for our family of four (typically making enough for a party even though it’s just us).
This year:
Most from scratch.
It’s been a good week.
I made an observation over the weekend.
I’m the only one making me miserable or anxious. Nobody and nothing else.
And I don’t have to make myself any of that.
So, I notice when I’m doing that, and remind myself it’s only me doing it.
It’s helping.
This is an known technique for most, but one I’m working on training myself to remember/rely on more often when making big decisions:
If it’s not a “Hell yes!”, it’s a “No”.
Since Friday afternoons are the best time to launch something …
Excited to introduce exitimpact.com
It’s a curated marketplace for Central Indiana small-to-medium-sized businesses.
Tell your friends!
See. Sledding was fun for all.
Said hill for the curious.
I’ve lived in Indy for nearly fifteen years.
Today it snowed enough that I could take the kids (and my wife) sledding for the first time in their lives at the Fort Harrison State Park sledding hill.
Wish I’d done this sooner.
Stick around at a startup post-acquisition for long enough, and it starts to feel like the Career of Theseus.
Update!
Managed to hold off on that fancy French beef stew until today.
Yum.
Making tomorrow’s dinner - boeuf bourguignon - today means the house smells amazing … but I’m not eating it until tomorrow.
Assuming I can restrain myself …
“Make more things more obvious”
A goal coming out of this week’s therapy session.
Now I need to figure out how to turn that into specifics …
Monday, January 3, 2022
Toward the end of 2021, I started itching for a way to get out of the house and do some good. Over the course of the current pandemic, I got more and more into home cooking and found that time spent in the kitchen - even doing prep work - really gave me a considerable peace of mind, so I figured I’d concentrate on ways I could do more of that and help others while I was at it.
Sunday, January 2, 2022
I wrote the below yesterday, planning to post it today. Over the course of driving back to Indy today, it gave me pause, though. I mean, for all the “I don’t have fancy stuff” below, I am inherently a privileged, and fairly “fancy” person. I mean, I grind my own coffee and use an aeropress. I drive a friggin' Prius (as unfancy as I might find it below). I’ve been really lucky in my life to have what are actually a lot of “fancy” things beyond a roof over my head, a bed to sleep in and enough food to not be hungry.
Saturday, January 1, 2022
It’s 2022 today, and Happy New Year to you and yours. The year past was at a macro level, a bit of a hellscape, but at a micro/personal level, far rosier. We managed to travel safely - around Indiana, to a relatively secluded beach, a weekend in Chicago, and then NYC/Boston. I switched from Engineering to Product at work. I found a thing I believe in to work on on the side.
The first thing Dan mentions here is the new thing I alluded to a few days ago:
Working on the name, site, email and whatnot to try and get past starting friction and launch v0.1 in early 2022.
Wednesday, December 22, 2021 →
Building a thing with a friend.
It’s at the exciting part where we give the thing a name and start turning it into a real boy - landing page and google form and domain name and such.
I’ve done this solo before; it’s kinda fun to bounce ideas off someone else and have some help.
Not sure who needs to hear this, but it’s the time of year many do.
It’s ok to feel adrift sometimes.
Drift a while - as long as you need.
Maybe the current takes you somewhere interesting.
You can row again when you know where you want to go.
Save your strength, float on.
Went for a five mile hike yesterday on the nation’s longest scenic trail - to make room for more cookies and eggnog.
Had a nice view once I got up on the ridge top.
New thought technology from therapy this week:
It’s not that I should do things, but rather that I want to do things.
I carry around a lot of guilt and shame over the things I should do but don’t.
Rather than I should pay that bill, I want to be a person that paid it.
It’s been an excellent morning.
