Everyday Systems

Excellent, excellent news. Well done.

You should be able to get a single, full lecture series onto a small player. 1gb seems only a few pounds more than 512mb, so I'd opt for that. That much space will probably give you a few lecture courses and a few albums of music. Looking here, I can see a 1gb player for about £15, where an iPod is ...

Anonnie wrote: "I haven't started No S yet, though I've been considering it for a month or so. The main reason I hesitate is because my therapist placed so much emphasis on having 3 meals a day plus 2-3 planned snacks and not classifying any food as forbidden." I shouldn't worry too much about the f...

History is going to be my next teaching company frontier. Let me know if you have any recommendations. I'm a big fan of the romans, so Garret Fagan's 'History of Ancient Rome' is great. Susan Foster MacArthur's 'Introduction to Archaeology' is very interesting, too. Thomas Childer's 'World War II, ...

I got intrigued, too; I'd not heard this one before. Here's what I discovered. 'Convention over Configuration' seems to mean that how you name things determines how you treat them. This could mean using the way you name things to remind of supporting behaviour. For example. my mum tried to instill t...

My fiancee likes flylady; I should give it a bit more of a look, I think, because in our house, I'm responsible for the kitchen; the cooking, washing up, keeping the kitchen tidy, shopping. Thanks for reminding me about it. I'm always striving for an overall pattern to life; recently, I've become co...

I've come to notice something about starting new self-improvement attempts. The first week of any new system is full of results, emotions, and reactions that are nothing like those in later weeks. On diets; the weight loss in the first week is nothing like the weight loss between, say, week 11 and w...

This is my second week, and I've got a few more bits to share. Only one week of pain. The first week I did this, I ran nine 2km stretches. The muscles ache through this first period; lots of muscle soreness, mainly. But that melted away at the weekend, and after just one week, my legs have toughened...

GTD really does make you think. Particularly, I think GTD and EDS make a nice complement because there are two types of things you have to do; 1) repeated things like exercise, tidying the house, paying the bills, etc. 2) one-off things like organising a holiday, writing a program, or visiting mecca...

Oh my god. That's exactly what I do, right down to the teaching company lectures. They are frankly amazing. I listen when I'm commuting and I listen, as you say, when I'm doing work around the house. I think the reason drudgery's got such a bad rap is because it doesn't normally involve learning abo...

I was interested by your idea of pushing habits down into the unconscious, and the podcast about habit management; I'm finding it really interesting that 'you can't make unconscious anything that involves counting' one reason might be '... because humans can't count to eight.' I guess a programmer i...

(warning -- geek alert) I'm a programmer myself, and one of the things I've noticed about the everyday systems is the very small amount of state each one requires, and how few inputs. This is great for humans, because we're awful at accurately remembering things for very long. Ever heard of the Hrai...

I know it's been mentioned before, but the Hipster PDA might appeal to some people;

http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/int ... pster-pda/

Also, if you're looking for some nice printable templates for the hipster pda;

http://www.diyplanner.com/templates/official/hpda

I was thinking about this this morning, actually. I figure humans weight can fluctuate by quite a bit daily; let's say +/- 4lb fluctuations in food and water and such. Scales have an intrinsic error in them, too; I'd guess about +/- 3lb; I can certainly 'choose' my weight a bit by shifting my bodywe...

Virtual plating and waves seems like a massive risk, in that it (a) breaks the habit of three distinct eating times, and (b) breaks the habit of one plate of food. It seems like lots of people have problems when they go out. If it's a special event, why not consider this a special day, and move forw...

Whenever I drink, I (a) get hungry, and (b) lose the control to resist eating. So I think pub- or bar-drinking after dinner may not make sense for people like me.

However, wine with a meal, or just before, should be ok, because you're eating then anyway.

Within the last six months, I've turned myself round from having too little month left at the end of the money to being really quite good at saving huuuge amounts of cash. I divide spends into two categories; coincidentally enough, when I wrote this up last year, I called them necessary and surplus;...

I've found this surprisingly more useful that I'd have thought. Initially I was uncertain of the value, but it's surprisingly good. For me, I'm using two compounds; first thing in the morning, and last thing at night; Kitchen medley ; box up some muesli and a sandwich for the next day. Gather all th...

Glad you liked them. Feel free to use whatever you want. More on naming the course; what's particularly cool about this is it can give you a way to react to the course. 'Tough Crank Hill' is named after the really short paces I do to take me up the hill at a jog but without being too winded -- small...

It might help if we could break down your worrying into little chunks and defeat each of those chunks. I can think of a few types of worry; I wonder which of them hits you hardest? I'll offer a few examples; see if you can list any more. feeling stuck: you know you've got lots to do, but you just ar...

Hi, All. After a year's absence, I've manged to get back into Urban Ranging for my daily commute. I'm trying to remix it for my own needs, and here's what I've come up with so far. The system I'm developing I'm calling Urban Recon ; I laid it the basics out last year in this post; http://everydaysys...

Sanity's a worthy goal. ;) Walking definately seems to affect the mind; thinking seems easier, when you're standing up and moving. Sitting down, I stew over things; walking, I come up with solutions. It's as though the progress of the feet drives the progress of the reason. urbanhumanist.com coming ...

I think parkour may well be beyond me, too. At least until I get bitten by a radioactive leopard and turned into leopardboy. So far, I've tried to blend a bit of jogging with the ranging; I've gone to work in running shoes and a sweatshirt; walking fast and then throwing in a couple of hundred yards...

Hi, All. This is my first post and my second day as an urban ranger. So I just wanted to say hi, and thanks, and offer a couple of ideas I've had. I don't know if any of you have heard of parkour, or free-running, but it's an athletic way to move about cities; it's a form of running, leaping, and bo...