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  • Having a life plan that works, that realistically and with some degree of certainty is taking me to somewhere that I want to go, and in the context of which waking up is an instrumental action furthering my progress along that path.

    Without a good reason to wake up, waking up sucks. A good reason to wake up is a complex thing. A good plan for life is hard to make, but worth it.

    I say this from the perspective of a history of massive depression.

    A good reason to open one’s mouth is that there’s delicious food in front of you. A good reason to wake up is that there’s a plan for the day that brings you closer to the things you want in life.

    If you have a hard time getting up, resolving that starts with making sure whatever thing you’re getting up for actually serves you.









  • That’s the one thing old people just don’t do: they won’t read what’s presented on the screen.

    I think it comes from growing up before GUIs, so they think of an interface as a set of buttons on a console. There was very little reason to read an interface back when they were all physical; you either knew what each button did or you didn’t and you only had to memorize it once.

    Like, the controls of a T-38 tank are always the same. The controls of a ‘57 Chevy are always the same.

    Once GUIs came into play, people started interacting with orders of magnitude more control interfaces, so the concept of “there is no manual; the interface is self-documenting” came into existence.

    Now you’re supposed to learn the interface and use it on the first encounter, which means reading what the interface is saying.