Blog

We have a blog. Here are the steps I took to set it up:

1. I already have a MySQL and WordPress instance running on my Digital Ocean box.
2. I make a new site there, with users (one for me, one for Ben).
3. I make it use a transneptune subdomain, as all new Transneptune blogs do at first.
4. I configure the Site Settings to use HTTPS, because this is the modern web.
5. I can't get to it, because it doesn't have a certificate yet. Oh no!
6. I add it to the Apache vhost and letsencrypt config, so that letsencrypt can pick up that it needs to generate a cert for that subdomain.
7. I run letsencrypt.
8. I party.

For future posts

Themes

Externalize your brain. Free up resources.

Benefits

• Get more done
• Worry less
• Forget things less
• Fewer errors

Lifehack Idea List

• Motivation hacking: imagining the end state, moving to there (tidy up piece, separation of concerns)
• Overallocate time and earn your free time out of the excess
• Pottery amateur drafts; get it out, rather than perfect (as in task entry)
• Godwin's pilots thing (checklists and efficiency outside heads, also polluted headspace with too many signals)

Posts to write (w/ sources)

Godwin's Pilots Talk/Rupprecht's Medicine Talk

Themes

Checklists. Externalize your brain. Filter signal vs noise.

Bonsai point:

Explicit breakout of plan vs execute, to avoid polluting one process with the concerns of the other. (This is basically checklist generation). Separation of concerns.

Filtering signal vs noise is similar to filtering actionable vs aspirational tasks.

Sources

Godwin slides Godwin talk

Conserve Willpower with Preplanning

Themes

Self-control and willpower are expendable resources. Don't waste them on continuous process management; set yourself up for success. Separation of concerns.

Bonsai point:

Separation of concerns. Plan out execution so future-you doesn't need to deplete willpower in management, instead focusing on execution.

Sources

Study Found from here