Monoid Mary

i have this habit of not letting myself do a thing i really want to do until the work i don't want to do is done.

this served me well in college and i think it's ok if the things you don't want to do are fairly limited in scope -- like writing that one paper, or maybe paying the bills or washing the dishes.

but i find that it's contributing to very bad burnout now, at a stage in my life when the things i don't want to do are very large in scope (indexing a 1000 page book, for ex).

Apr 25, 2017 at 9:35pmWeb
Show threadMonoid MaryApr 25, 2017
maybe i need new habits especially now, when so many of the things i really want to do (like read Introduction to the Theory of Computation) would be productive and useful.
Show threadZakiApr 26, 2017
@argumatronic You know we have "computers" (no longer women) that are pretty good at indexing things. Heard you wrote about programming the "computers"?
Show threadMonoid MaryApr 26, 2017
@zmanian wait when did computers stop being women :P
Show threadZakiApr 26, 2017
@argumatronic I'm imagining a universe where computers are still women but Haskell exists and it's the only way to talk to women.
Show threadMonoid MaryApr 26, 2017
@zmanian that sounds like a good universe to me ;-)