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Musings about life on two wheels
How bicycles work
Tl;Dr: it’s complex and amazing Read this. The amount of physics needed to understand propulsion, tires, wheels and frames is just incredible
Credit card touring in Oliver
Tl;Dr: Great trip with the merry bikers to Oliver, Canada B.C. I’m just back from 4 days of bike touring near Oliver in British Columbia. I’m really impressed with the beauty and bike facilities! Oliver, Penticton and Chute Lake are on the east side of the Canadian Cascades. All three places are on lakes: Chute…
Akrasis
Akrasia is acting against one’s better judgment. There’s a better definition at the link, but I am using it here in the gross sense stated above. For example: Eating late night icec ream while trying to lose weight. I think this happens pretty often – not so much because people intentionally decide to act against…
Eyes>Stomach: Goal monitoring
Tl;Dr: Data nerds want to check if they’re doing their plan. Todoist data should help. I’m a data nerd – always have been. Data is great to understand how systems are working, especially systems that have expectations associated with them. For example: I have 37 different ‘projects’ in ToDoist, and I expect to things on…
Electric bikes decrease theft of analog
Tl!Dr: thieves value e-bikes more than analog, so park near them A time-honored bicycle security measure is to make your bike less attractive to thieves. But this is not the only way to make your bike less desirable. You can also park near people with more attractive bikes. And the most attractive bikes (for bike…
Intuition as a ranking strategy
Tl;Dr: I do it, you do it. Even the most GTD’re uses it often Earlier I was writing about the 2nd simplest Getting Things Done tool: Ranked List (the first simplest is something I call The Compost Pile). A ranked list is just things labeled 1 to n in order of importance. The hard this…
Musings about Getting Things Done
Tl;Dr: Everybody knows you need priorities, dates and… Why not just a ranked list? Getting Things Done (GTD) is one flavor of Productivity strategies. The basic idea being: you can get more done if you are organized about it. Seems pretty obvious, there are books, apps, diaries, about it. They range from pretty simple to…
Seattle is in a Jungle
Tl;Dr: seriously. Riding around Interlaken with M. today – so lushly green and viney. It must be a jungle.
1 handed with handlebars – bad plan
Tl;dr: If you have to emergency, stop with one hand on the bars you’re in for a bad time Earlier today I saw a guy riding an electric scooter down the road while holding his phone to his face. One hand on the bars. I’ve been riding bicycles for a long time and the truth…
Do One Thing
Tl;Dr: Pick one important accomplishable task each day, the rest of your time will fill up I’ve recently had a bit more time on my hands. While working, it’s easy to imagine that with more time, more of the things that you think about doing will get done everyday. It can be frustrating to find…
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