Everyday Systems

Thank you, Stefan! Glad to hear it.

Funny, I've been enjoying my Roomba a lot more since I recorded it, its charming quirks notwithstanding (or perhaps because of those charming quirks).

New podcast Episode:

Technology for habits, and habits for technology. Also a story about my Roomba.

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/66

Hope you enjoy!

Glad it resonated with you, Amy! Thanks for letting me know.

A lighthearted "Jedi mind trick" for calming yourself down in certain mundane situations:

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/65/

You're very welcome, Maria! And thank you for your kinds words. Good to see you here again.

Not at all! I am very grateful for your interest!

Glad audiodidact output is resonating and good luck with your timeboxing tweaks!

Reinhard

Hi Stefan, Good questions, all around! Middle age has been challenging on the exercise front. I always imagined my physical powers would gradually decline, but no, it's been sudden shocks, some recoverable, to a degree, some possibly not, and others still in the recovery process (I hope!). First it ...

The formatting of the transcript is a little inconsistent (working on that) but hopefully good enough for now:

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/64/

Hope you enjoy it. Very curious if any of the titles for potential future episodes resonated.

Domamine nation is an excellent book. The audiobook version is excellent too (read by the author). I've listed to it and read it in print (and generated some anki cards). Gave it the full "Study Habit" treatment. I'm taking notes for an episode I'm tentatively calling "Demogorgon Whack-a-mole" that ...

I'm glad you both like it! Thank you for letting me know. It's not often I come across truly wise self help books and Anna Lembke's is definitely one of them. I love how she is simultaneously tough and compassionate. Some of the terminology is great too, "self binding," in its various forms (chronol...

Can't believe I actually got this out on time. Enjoy!

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=63

I'm happy to see this continuing evidence that the boards are used and appreciated! I certainly won't shut anything down as long as I can keep them kicking along, and who knows, maybe some hitherto untapped additional resource (child labor? early retirement?) will make it possible to fuller attentio...

Hey, I like that. Makes it a much more full body workout, with the squatting element. Sorry for the delayed response! Evil facebook has been luring my limited attention away from these boards. (In case you're open to being similarly lured, the shovelglove group is at https://www.facebook.com/groups/...

Thank you, Stefan! Both for your continuing encouragement about the podcast and the specific tips about the golfer's elbow. I have a strong patience muscle (from practice, not nature!) so I'm totally fine with it taking even a year to get back to 100%. I have (reluctantly) incorporated stretches. MD...

Congratulations and thank you for letting us know!

I like your reinforcement technique!

Enjoy! 2021 was miserable in most respects, but it’s been another fantastic opportunity to test the true mettle of Everyday Systems. Part 1 reviews Body and Spirits systems: The No S Diet, Shovelglove, Urban Ranger, Lawful Good Biker, Glass Ceiling, Low Smoking. https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/e...

I wish I could -- but then again I don't. I only seem to have a knack for problems I personally have, and I'm afraid I've been happily married for over 20 years now so am totally unqualified to advise on this subject... it was a different world back then. And even then, I wasn't any good at dating. ...

An inspiringly ridiculous image to ward off the dreaded "what the hell" effect.

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=61

Hope you enjoy.

Glad to hear people are still finding this useful -- I'll see if I can conscript my children to help at some point. A race between human maturity and bitrot :-) The "right" facebook group (at least the one I'm aware of/involved with!) is https://www.facebook.com/groups/nosdiet I'll try to link to it...

I'm so glad it's resonated with you, Stefan, and the other related systems! And that you're managing to fit the Study Habit into your life. During the week, my dedicated study blocks are pitifully short. 14 minutes (surprise, surprise) is my standard but sometime in a pinch I'll do a mere 7. I try, ...

So glad to hear this and thank you for sharing! The 24 hour fast a week is interesting... your timing is indeed good within the no-s framework! I've been doing "meditative Mondays" with a slightly longer than usual medication session (still pitifully short, just 14 minutes, but I get something out o...

I just posted the follow up episode.

Still not so strong on "comic pragmatism" for an everyday system but I think there are at least a couple funny bits in it?

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=60

Hope you like in Stefan! (but don't hold back if it's not what you were hoping for).

Stefan! I'm glad you got something out of it. I think it was emails with you over the years that finally convinced me to do this episode. You are right! It is lacking in comic pragmatism. I'll see what I can do about that... possibly not so much in the next "behavior" episode, but maybe as a v2. Tha...

This is one I've been trying to collect my thoughts on for years -- hope it resonates. Tite: The Study Habit Description: How to go from 'study=cramming' to making learning a lifelong habit https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=59 (wasn't able to cram it all into one episode, unfortunat...

Image from WWII propaganda to keep you from sabotaging your own self-improvement efforts.

Enjoy!

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=58

Thank you for your responses! I am glad to hear it's still of some value to some of you. I think for now I'll continue to let it kick along. Maybe I can persuade one of my increasingly tech-savvy children to resurrect it in a worthier form some day soon... I'll continue to investigate other options ...

Hello dear loyal Everyday Systems bulletin board members! I'm sad to have to be thinking of doing this, but I don't have the bandwidth any more (and truthfully haven't really for a while now) to keep up with the technical upkeep of this phpBB bulletin board system and I feel bad at how run-down it's...

Sorry blankful somehow stopped working a while ago... I'll see if I can revive it.

These days, I'm very into anki cards, which have something in common. Anki "cloze deletions" are more versatile if slightly less ef.

All the self-help books ever written distilled into one word, with a note of enlightened self-mockery that makes the whole thing bearable

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=57

Hope this resonates with some of you (ties a lot of previously mentioned techniques together):

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=56

So glad to hear it and thank you for posting here! Many things I loved about your testimonial (besides your mere success, which is certainly something!): "pseudohunger" (a very apt term I hadn't heard somehow), that Shovelglove and the Lifelog are also resonating for you, that years into the SEO arm...

I'm back -- but trying to figure out how to get our from under "94405" notifcations (mostly spam account creating attempts) so please bear with me for a bit!

Deb, I'm sorry I wasn't virtually around when you came back last month, but I hope you are still here so I can make it up to you with a very warm if much belated welcome?

Welcome back! I've been awol from the boards for a while too (but not from the diet and other systems, I always make sure to at least practice even if I can't preach!). I'm so moved and gratified (and also a little ashamed) that so many board members have kept it going in my absence. Thank you! I do...

Good point -- there are many ways to track summary compliance. I went with simplicity and a gently nudge to keep the S-days to a minimum (since for the purpose of this calculation they aren't distinguished from failures.) I also found it interesting that it doesn't take that many N days to make a re...

Hi Deb,

I changed your password per your PM instructions. Hope that does the trick?

Enjoy!

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/55/

"Habit tracking when apps or magic markers won't cut it"

More episodes on the way... (resolved to bang out one a month now)

Hi Deb! I'm here! I'm sorry.

I think you need the login for the old[er] bulletin board so you can use that to log into the habitcal, is that correct?

I will send you that.

Congratulations!

I've been pretty much under water this year, but it's all that much more gratifying to see people posting here and on facebook even without my hovering.

I posted the episode itself a few days ago but was in too much of a scramble to start a new topic here:

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=54

Hi Stefan,

Sorry I didn't see your post till now. Glad you liked the episode and thank you for letting me know. Yes, a "study habit" episode is on the agenda for 2021!

Reinhard

Glad you liked it! Thanks for letting me know.

Thank you all!

Have another one in the works...

It's a little strange, even for me, but hopefully useful (or at least entertaining) to someone:

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=52

Another podcast episode at long last...

Warning: this one is a little weird, even for me. But hopefully helpful or at least amusing to someone.

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=52

You are a true No-S Master.

11 years!

And a No-S Bodhisattva who returns to tell others of the possibility of enlightenment.

Thanks for posting here, especially since it sometimes takes me a long while to swing by. I really appreciate it.

(or was it the day before).

It's an ancient, rickety software stack, and hard to keep from toppling over every now and then.

At some point I should find a more futureproof way to ensure that all these great posts are preserved and that conversation can continue, but I'm just not there yet....

Reflect on what is giving you trouble with your self improvement system. Write a contract with yourself on a 4*6 index card. Record yourself speaking it. Listen to this recorded mantra every day.

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode.php?id=51

I'm so glad No S is still working for you, a decade plus in -- and thank you for letting us know! (I'm sorry I'm not more of a presence on these boards lately -- I'm in that "sandwich" period of life being overwhelmed with kids, ailing parents, and demanding job all at once. I think it gets easier a...

It is a great name, if a little extreme. The clarity bit is certainly right on. I just quibble with where she draws that "bright line."

I will investigate this. Thanks for reporting it!

Good to see some of your kind here!

Glad to hear it!

The good news is new spam has stopped as far as I can see with the upgrade. The bad news is we've got quite a backlog, and part of the reason new spam has stopped is I have to approve new accounts and I just haven't... probably not a sustainable solution. I know some of you have offered to be modera...

Yes, it did break with the upgrade this weekend -- I'm sorry. It should be working again now, with the caveat that it now has a separate login system (it's still using the old bulletin board login system because I can't figure out how to connect it the new one). Please try again when you get a chanc...

Sorry about that -- I didn't realize that disabling the boards would prevent regular users from logging in at all (it let me in because I was admin). I just re-enabled the old boards, but removed all the content. The habitcal seemed to work with a test account. Try again and let me know? Thanks for ...

Due to massive spam, I recently upgraded the bulletin board, and have it configured so that I have to approve all new users. The problem? I got 135 requests in the last few days since the upgrade, and I am sure the vast majority are spambots. Until I figure out a more elegant mechanism for dealing w...

OK, I think that habitcal is working again... Please let me know if you run into difficulties. Note that the login system it uses is now separate from the new bulletin board. What this means for existing users is that you will have to login to each system separately, and if you change you password i...

Yes, so good to hear from you again, Deb! Sorry for furnishing such an annoying pretext, though... I'm struggling with it now, I hope to have a somewhat hacky solution in place soon... basically, I'm going to bring the old bulletin board back up at another url, clear the boards themselves, and use i...

If you have trouble logging in, try clearing your "cookies" for everyday systems. I think cookies set by the old version of the bulletin board may be confusing the new system.

Hi all, As you probably noticed, I finally upgraded the bulletin board software, and this should make it a lot easier to stay on top of the spam (and even deputize some of you to help me!). Thank you all for your continued vigilance and patience while I figure this out over the next few days. Reinhard

Well, we're running the new version. I see a lot of little things need tweaking (and as anticipated the habitcal is broken), but I think it basically works, and it seems to have much better anti-spam features, though I need to spend some time figuring them out and tuning them. Expect some chaos over...

Wow, that's beautiful. I may have to ask you for more details.

The spam is too much. I can't deal with it. I'm sorry but that likely means the bulletin board will be down for significant stretches this weekend, and there may be lingering issues into next week. Thanks in advance for your patience!

Got him. Thanks, Soprono!

I am planning to do this painful site upgrade before New Year.

I'll try to give some advance notice before I dive in, and I'll keep a backup in case it's a total disaster and I have to revert.

Not yet, but I'm supposed to figure Instagram out for work, so might as well for No-S/everyday systems as well...

OK, I think I got everything posted here since my last spambot killing spree. If you notice anything I missed, or when you notice new spam, please continue to post it here, and feel free to email me directly if it's been more than a few days and things are piling up -- reinhard.engels@gmail.com I am...

Sorry, I've been negligent for a while again...

Starting cleanup now... may take a bit to get through it all.

I think I'm going to have to break that habitcal and upgrade the phpbb software . There's just no way I can stay on top of this otherwise.

The No S Diet = The Yes Meals Diet. I love how jenji put her finger on the positive heart of "No" S in her one-year testimonial: If the heart of this plan is meals, try to give yourself a nice meal. I also love how she lost 17 pounds despite a long list of typical diet dealbreakers (stressful job, p...

Got it. Thanks!

Makes perfect sense. Thanks for the link! One great thing about the mindshare IF is getting is that it's (finally) making people see the obvious lunacy of permasnacking (as you point out, snacking on any scale wasn't even *possible* before refrigeration, microwave ovens, hi-tech convenience food). M...

Got them. Thanks, ladybird30 and sharon227!

So great to read this, Jenji! Really quite an accomplishment given all those usual diet "dealbreakers" you listed. I love how you put your finger on the positive heart of "No" S: If the heart of this plan is meals, try to give yourself a nice meal. Congratulations and thank you for letting us know!

Got it. THanks!

I might be able to weed out by embedded links, but it would involved messing with the phpbb code, and I should probably just use that effort to upgrade/replace the bulletin board entirely... good idea, though.

I was thinking about the latest version of phpbb, although it's now so long since I tried that I'm not even sure a direct upgrade is possible. The trick is importing all the old posts, adding url rewrite rules so links to them still work. It's a project, unfortunately.

Yeah... I think I need to bite the bullet and upgrade. I've tried to a couple of times, and the thing that got me stuck was habitcal login (everything else worked). But I'm not sure how many people are still using the habitcal (have to stare at the logs a bit). I may just have to retire it..

Hmmm. It's not immediately clear to me how to enable moderation in this ancient version of phpbb... stay tuned!

You know, moderation might be the way to go... thanks for suggesting/volunteering, Soprono! Shall we try it as an experiment? I think we'll need a few moderators to make sure there isn't too much delay. Any one else interested? (I'll put a top level post about this to the main group as well) Reinhard

Whew. I am knee-deep in the blood of spambots. I feel like Odysseus after having dispatched the suitors.

Thank you all!

P.S. anyone interested in being in being deputized with spam destroying powers? I've been hesitant to consider this, but it may be time...

Reinhard

So good to hear this, Dave.

You've graduated to a higher plane of post-dieting.

Looking forward to more "no news" reports from the stratosphere in future years!

Reinhard

I now (many years into it!) really like google sheets. It's free, hugely flexible, and works well on mobile devices. "Conditional formatting" (coloring things automatically based on their values) is the key to turning it into a habit tracking tool. And you can go bananas with summary stats. You can ...

Got it. Thanks, Ladybird!

I think that's a fair statement...

got them both. Thanks, oolala53, ladybird30!

First off, sorry it's taken me forever to pop in here. Secondly, I love your "Zen of Shovelglove" attitude. I tell people in the No S group "Eat moderately, see what happens" rather than fixating on results, and with exercise this kind of detachment is just as helpful. Thirdly, congratulations on wh...

Congratulations on your sustained success, thank you for letting us know about it, and apologies for my very delayed response! (my parents health plus kids plus a very full time job have been keeping me inhumanly busy these last few months). So interesting to hear the details of your No S practice. ...

Got 'em. Thanks!

As a trained librarian your discovery of No S in a public library makes me especially happy!

Welcome!

Got that last one as well -- thanks Jx. It looks like the same spambot that did the last batches of 50+ under different usernames. I doubt we've seen the last of this one. Next time it strikes (and I'm guessing we won't have to wait long), I'm going to observe a little more careful observation befor...

So happy to hear that despite major challenges, you've made it this far!

Not needing to track red/green days (helpful as that can be at the beginning) is a huge milestone as well.

Thank you for letting us know and best of luck in year three!

Reinhard

I think I'm caught up now with what has been reported here at least. Sorry again for the delay.

And "savimakwo..."

And "sitecode..."

And "josephchacko." Thanks, elegantportions, and sorry for the delay.

Got "crothermbeme," too -- thanks, flyingpig!

Just got "zhen12"... thanks, Soprano and oolala53.

I see I have a bunch more cleaning up to do...

Sorry I let this pile up.

Hi Syfy74, "Glass ceiling" (the 2 drink a day maximum rule) is different from no-s, but compatible with it. Its goal is to limit problem drinking, not reduce calories. If that's not an issue for you, then don't worry about it. But frequently going beyond 2 drinks might be a sign of a problem for man...

Joel,

I'm so happy to hear this!

I'm still using them every day, a stable two columns on the front ("life" and "work"), and a continually refined system of hieroglyphs on the back (mostly) for what originally went in the third ("routine") column.

Reinhard

Bluebell, congratulations and I'm so sorry I didn't see this till now! I'm delighted, of course, at your quantitative success, but even more so at the new "freedoms" you've enumerated. No-s doesn't just lose you weight, but also, and more importantly, the "phantom weight" in your head. That's been m...

Hi all, Thanks for the reports and sorry for the delay -- distracted by pre-vacation work stress and now vacation itself. I think I've obliterated the guilty and spared the innocent. Please keep the reports coming! I do check before I delete, and without this mechanism these boards would be overrun ...

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