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## Hi! I'm Miguel 👋🏼
Problem solver, hobby developer, music enjoyer, and public infrastructure enthusiast. I live in Minnesota, also known as the _"Land of 10,000 Lakes"_ for having over 14,000 bodies of fresh water.
I think a lot, work a lot, have existential crises, and know just enough about making websites to make me dangerous. I enjoy writing, reading, coding, listening to music, and love having a problem to solve.
### As of September 2023, I am…
… tending to my [digital garden](https://forgetful.dev/).
… making simple browser [extensions](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/17772574/).
… collecting bookmarks with [Raindrop](https://raindrop.io/SemanticData).
… learning about [Vim](https://www.vim.org/), [NeoVim](https://neovim.io/), and [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/).
… slowly teaching myself game development with [LÖVE](https://love2d.org/).
### Reaching Out
Here are some places you can find me on the web. You'll probably be able to find me in other places too, provided you look hard enough.
* [GitHub](https://github.com/semanticdata)
* [Instagram](https://instagram.com/miguelapv)
* [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelpimentel29/)
Thank you for stopping by. Please tell your dog I said Hi! 🐶

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title: Arpeggio
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An arpeggio is a type of [[Chords|broken chord]] in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order. Arpeggios on keyboard instruments may be called rolled chords.
Arpeggios indicate a chord in which the notes are sounded individually. The word "arpeggio" comes from the Italian word "arpeggiare," which means to play on a harp.

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title: Atomic Notes
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Atomic notes are single, self-contained notes that capture a single idea or piece of information. They are meant to be read and understood without needing to refer to anything more.
They can be connected to another atomic note or idea in some way. By breaking down complex ideas into smaller, atomic notes, one can make their notes more organized and easier to review later.

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title: Aurora Borealis Sighting
description: Wednesday, July 12th, 2023, was supposed to feature high solar activity, allowing for an incredibly large area of the northern United States to witness the Auroras as long as the light pollution was low. Unfortunately, this forecast did not come to pass. The solar activity remained within normal levels, meaning only Alaska and a few other places were able to see them. Thus cancelling these plans. But I liked the idea of presenting things like this in an Archive format.
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> Wednesday, July 12th, 2023, was supposed to feature high solar activity, allowing for an incredibly large area of the northern United States to witness the Auroras as long as the light pollution was low.
>
> Unfortunately, this forecast did not come to pass. The solar activity remained within normal levels, meaning only Alaska and a few other places were able to see them. Thus cancelling these plans. But I liked the idea of presenting things like this in an Archive format.
## Light Pollution Table
| Location | Distance | Travel Time | Rank\* |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| Minneapolis | 16 miles | 25 minutes | 0 |
| Bloomington | 2 miles | 5 minutes | 1 |
| Chaska | 15 miles | 20 minutes | 2 |
| Farmington | 24 miles | 35 minutes | 3 |
| Jordan | 22 miles | 25 minutes | 4 |
| Norwood | 35 miles | 40 minutes | 5 |
| Gaylord | 55 miles | 60 minutes | 6 |
| Rapidan | 75 miles | 75 minutes | 7 |
| Chengwatana | 95 miles | 90 minutes | 8 |
| Sacred Heart | 105 miles | 120 minutes | 9 |
**\*** Higher Rank is considered better.
## Tips to Get a Better Look
Viewing the aurora depends on four important factors.
### Geomagnetic Activity
If the geomagnetic field is active, then the aurora will be brighter and further from the poles. Geomagnetic activity is driven by solar activity and solar coronal holes and thus it waxes and wanes with time. The level of geomagnetic activity is indicated by the planetary K index or Kp. The Kp index ranges from 0 to 9.
* For Kp in the range 0 to 2, the aurora will be far north, quite dim in intensity, and not very active.
* For Kp in the range of 3 to 5, the aurora will move further from the poles, it will become brighter and there will be more auroral activity (motion and formations). If you are in the right place, these aurora can be quite pleasing to look at.
* For Kp in the range 6 to 7, the aurora will move even further from the poles and will become quite bright and active. At this geomagnetic activity level, it might be possible to see the aurora from the northern edge of the United States.
* For Kp in the range 8 to 9, the aurora will move even further towards the equator and it will become very bright and very active. These are the events that create the best aurora and the extended auroral oval will be observable by the most people. At these levels, aurora may be seen directly overhead from the northern states of the USA.
It should be noted that the relationship between Kp and auroral latitude are approximate and represent averages. There will be times when these relationships do not hold up exactly.
There is an approximate relationship between Kp and the equatorward extent of the auroral oval. This relationship holds true in geomagnetic latitude, not geographic. At Kp = 0, the equator ward edge of the auroral oval is approximately 66 degrees. And it moves equatorward about 2 degrees for each level of Kp. So for Kp = 1, the aurora would move down to 64 degrees, for Kp=2, it would move to 62 degrees, etc… until reaching Kp of 9 at 48 degrees magnetic latitude.
### Location
Go towards the magnetic poles. The north magnetic pole is currently about 400 km (250 miles) from the geographic pole and is located in the islands of north east Canada. Find a place where you can see to the north ( or south if you are in the southern hemisphere). Given the right vantage point, say for example on top of a hill in the northern hemisphere with an unobstructed view toward the north, a person can see aurora even when it is 1000 km (600 miles) further north. It should be noted that if you are in the right place under the aurora, you can see very nice auroral displays even with low geomagnetic activity (Kp = 3 or 4).
### It Must Be Dark
Go out at night. Get away from city lights. The full moon will also diminish the apparent brightness of the aurora (not the actual brightness). One caveat that people often neglect to think of is that the high latitudes where aurora occur are also latitudes where it doesn't get dark in the summer. So combining a summer vacation to the arctic with aurora watching usually doesn't work. The aurora may still be there but it is only visible when it is dark.
### Timing
Best aurora is usually within an hour or two of midnight (between 10 PM and 2 AM local time). These hours of active aurora expand towards evening and morning as the level of geomagnetic activity increases. There may be aurora in the evening and morning but it is usually not as active and therefore, not as visually appealing.
The best Seasons for aurora watching are around the spring and fall equinoxes. Due to subtleties in the way the solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetosphere, there is a tendency towards larger geomagnetic storms, and thus better auroras, to occur near the equinoxes. However, the number of hours of darkness decreases (increases) rapidly near the spring (fall) equinox so this caveat must be considered for those traveling to see the aurora.
Below are maps showing the most southern extent of where aurora might be observable for different levels of the geomagnetic Kp index (and the NOAA G scale). It should be noted that the aurora can often be observed hundreds of kilometers (miles) equatorward of the actual aurora so these figures do not indicate where the aurora may be but rather the point from which it may be observed.
## How Far South Can Aurora Be Observed?
[NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center - G-Kp](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/images/u2/Aurora_Kp_MapNorthAm.png)
* G is NOAA Geomagnetic Storm Index (0–5)
* Kp is Planetary K Index (0–9)
![NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center - G-Kp](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/images/u2/Aurora_Kp_MapNorthAm.png)
### Additional Resources
* [Aurora Dashboard](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/aurora-dashboard-experimental)
* [Dive Deeper Into the Science of the Aurora](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/aurora-tutorial)
* [Space Weather Phenomena](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena)

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## Raindrop.io
In Raindrop.io I collect bookmarks. A subsection of these is curated and published to my Raindrop [public page](https://raindrop.io/SemanticData).
Currently, I have these named public collections available:
* Articles
* Firefox Addons (ones made by myself)
* Fun in Minnesota
* GitHub Repos
* Guides
* Bash Basics (series)
* Rust Basics (series)
* Terminal Basics (series)
* Hacker News
* PRIDE Events
* Wikipedia
* Wishlist

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title: Callouts Showcase
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> [!EXAMPLE] Examples
>
> Aliases: example
> [!note] Notes
>
> Aliases: note
> [!abstract] Summaries
>
> Aliases: abstract, summary, tldr
> [!info] Info
>
> Aliases: info, todo
> [!tip] Hint
>
> Aliases: tip, hint, important
> [!success] Success
>
> Aliases: success, check, done
> [!question] Question
>
> Aliases: question, help, faq
> [!warning] Warning
>
> Aliases: warning, caution, attention
> [!failure] Failure
>
> Aliases: failure, fail, missing
> [!danger] Error
>
> Aliases: danger, error
> [!bug] Bug
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> Aliases: bug
> [!quote] Quote
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> Aliases: quote, cite

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title: Chords (music)
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A _chord_, in music, is any harmonic set of pitches/frequencies consisting of multiple notes (also called "pitches") that are heard as if sounding simultaneously.
A chord, in music, is any harmonic set of pitches/frequencies consisting of multiple notes (also called "pitches") that are heard as if sounding simultaneously. For many practical and theoretical purposes, arpeggios and other types of broken chords (in which the chord tones are not sounded simultaneously) may also be considered as _chords_ in the right musical context.

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Chuckwallas are lizards found primarily in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Some are found on coastal islands. The five species of chuckwallas are all placed within the genus _Sauromalus_; they are part of the iguanid family, _Iguanidae_—composed of iguanas, chuckwallas, and their prehistoric relatives.
Chuckwallas are stocky, wide-bodied lizards with flattened midsections and prominent bellies. Their tails are thick, tapering to a blunt tip. Loose folds of skin characterize the neck and sides of their bodies, which are covered in small, coarsely granular scales. Their length ranges from 15 inches up to 30 inches.
## Iguanidae (lizard family)
<img alt="iguanidae lizarf family" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semanticdata/purple-was-taken/main/content/assets/iguanidae-lizard-family-tinified.png" />

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title: Consistency is Key
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Show up. Do the work. Be consistent.
> [!warning]
>
> This note is a [[Stub]]. The information has yet to be curated or processed yet.

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title: Continuous Care
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Be the watchful caretaker of your ever growing plants and flowers. Grow your knowledge by forming new branches and connecting the dots. Write short structured notes articulating specific ideas and share them here.
One note in your digital garden = one idea. Avoid creating or nourishing orphan notes. Anything not connected eventually needs to go. We must: refine our ideas, thread our thoughts, and keep notes [[Atomic Notes|atomic]].
Taking raw notes is _useless_. Seed your garden with quality content and cultivate your curiosity. Plant seeds in your mind garden by taking smart personal notes. These don't need to be written in a publishable form.

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title: Digital Garden Colors
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## Original Colors
### Light Mode
| Hex Code | Preview | Name |
|:-----------:|:----------------------------------------------------------------:|:---------:|
| `#faf8f8` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #faf8f8;"></span> | light |
| `#e5e5e5` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #e5e5e5;"></span> | lightgray |
| `#b8b8b8` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #b8b8b8;"></span> | gray |
| `#4e4e4e` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #4e4e4e;"></span> | darkgray |
| `#2b2b2b` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #2b2b2b;"></span> | dark |
| `#284b63` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #284b63;"></span> | secondary |
| `#84a59d` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #84a59d;"></span> | terciary |
| `#8f9fa926` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #8f9fa926;"></span> | highlight |
### Dark Mode
| Hex Code | Preview | Name |
| :-------: | :--------------------------------------------------------------: | :-------: |
| `#161618` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #161618;"></span> | light |
| `#393639` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #393639;"></span> | lightgray |
| `#fff` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #fff;"></span> | other |
| `#646464` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #646464;"></span> | gray |
| `#d4d4d4` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #d4d4d4;"></span> | darkgray |
| `#ebebec` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #ebebec;"></span> | dark |
| `#7b97aa` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #7b97aa;"></span> | secondary |
| `#84a59d` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #84a59d;"></span> | terciary |
| `#8f9fa926` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #8f9fa926;"></span> | highlight |
## Proposed Colors
### Light Mode
| Hex Code | Preview | Name |
| :-------: | :--------------------------------------------------------------: | :-------: |
| `#faf8f8` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #faf8f8;"></span> | light |
| `#e5e5e5` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #e5e5e5;"></span> | lightgray |
| `#b8b8b8` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #b8b8b8;"></span> | gray |
| `#4e4e4e` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #4e4e4e;"></span> | darkgray |
| `#2b2b2b` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #2b2b2b;"></span> | dark |
| `#284b63` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #284b63;"></span> | secondary |
| `#84a59d` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #84a59d;"></span> | terciary |
| `#8f9fa926` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #8f9fa926;"></span> | highlight |
### Dark Mode
| Hex Code | Preview | Name |
| :-------: | :--------------------------------------------------------------: | :-------: |
| `#161618` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #161618;"></span> | light |
| `#393639` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #393639;"></span> | lightgray |
| `#fff` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #fff;"></span> | other |
| `#646464` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #646464;"></span> | gray |
| `#d4d4d4` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #d4d4d4;"></span> | darkgray |
| `#ebebec` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #ebebec;"></span> | dark |
| `#7b97aa` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #7b97aa;"></span> | secondary |
| `#84a59d` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #84a59d;"></span> | terciary |
| `#8f9fa926` | <span class="block" style="background-color: #8f9fa926;"></span> | highlight |
## Code References
### Style Code
```css
.block {
content: "";
display: block;
border: solid cyan 1px;
width: 20px;
height: 20px;
}
```
### Original Light Mode
```css
lightMode {
light: #faf8f8;
lightgray: #e5e5e5;
gray: #b8b8b8;
darkgray: #4e4e4e;
dark: #2b2b2b;
secondary: #284b63;
tertiary: #84a59d;
highlight: #8f9fa926;
}
```
### Original Dark Mode
```css
darkMode {
light: #161618;
lightgray: #393639;
other: #fff;
gray: #646464;
darkgray: #d4d4d4;
dark: #ebebec;
secondary: #7b97aa;
tertiary: #84a59d;
highlight: #8f9fa926;
}
```

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## What is a Digital Garden
A digital garden is a combination of an **online notebook** and a **personal wiki**, where digital gardeners write in small, unfinished pieces, also known as [[Atomic Notes|atomic notes]], and share these seeds of thought to be cultivated in public. Digital gardens are curated and evolve over time, sometimes growing wildly and sometimes getting pruned.
The phrase _"digital garden"_ comes up often while browsing these notes. Surely I overuse it. That said, I still like it. It more closely describes what I envision this website to be: a carefully curated garden of digital notes. Having a reliable system on which to dump raw information is extremely useful. The idea of [[Sweep Your Mind|sweeping]] one's mind is helpful to rid yourself of distractions from incorrectly prioritized tasks.
## How is Content Curated
Digital Gardens are explorable rather than structured as a strictly linear stream of posts. They grow slowly over time, rather than created as _"finished"_ work that is to never be touched again. A place where little changes accumulate and transform thoughts and ideas. As you [[Continuous Care|continuously care]] for your garden, you **revise**, **update**, and **change** your ideas as they develop.

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* [[Aurora Borealis Sighting]]
* [[Callouts]]
* [[Health and Wellness]]
* [[Markdown Demo|Markdown Demo]]
* [[Meditation]]
* [[Meta]]
* [[Public Journal]]
* [[Tools]]
* [[Unlock Firefox Sidebar]]
* [[Upcoming Concerts]]

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### Lighting
Lightning is a significant force contributing to mountain erosion. [source](https://www.livescience.com/40701-lightning-strikes-erode-mountains.html)
### Sea Sickness
Ginger is proven to help those who suffer from sea sickness.
### Yak Shaving
Yak Shaving is programming lingo for the seemingly endless series of small tasks that have to be completed before the next step in a project can move forward.
### Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
TMS is a noninvasive form of brain stimulation in which a changing magnetic field is used to induce an electric current at a specific area of the brain through electromagnetic induction. An electric pulse generator, or stimulator, is connected to a magnetic coil connected to the scalp.
### Weasel Words
A weasel word, or anonymous authority, is slang for words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague or ambiguous claim has been communicated. Examples include the phrases "some people say", "it is thought", and "researchers believe".
Using weasel words may allow one to later deny any specific meaning if the statement is challenged, because the statement was never specific in the first place. Weasel words can be a form of _tergiversation_, and may be used in advertising, (popular) science, opinion pieces and political statements to mislead or disguise a biased view or unsubstantiated claim.
### MV Derbyshire
The MV Derbyshire was a British ore-bulk-oil combination carrier built in 1976. It was lost on September 9, 1980 during Typhoon Orchid, south of Japan. At 91,655 gross register tons, she is the largest British ship ever to have been lost at sea. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Derbyshire)
### Rogue Waves
Rogue waves are unusually large, unpredictable, and suddenly appearing surface waves that can be extremely dangerous to ships, even to large ones.
In oceanography, rogue waves are more precisely defined as waves whose height is more than twice the significant wave height (Hs or SWH), which is itself defined as the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record. Therefore, rogue waves are not necessarily the biggest waves found on the water; they are, rather, unusually large waves for a given sea state. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave)
### Dumping Chemical Weapons Directly into the Ocean
After World War II, it is claimed that scientist did not know how to destroy the massive arsenals of chemical weapons. Russia, the UK, and the US opted for what seemed the safest and cheapest method of disposal at the time: dumping chemical weapons directly into the ocean.
Experts estimate that 1 million metric tons of chemical weapons lie on the ocean floor—from Italy's Bari harbor, where 230 sulfur mustard exposure cases have been reported since 1946, to the US East Coast, where sulfur mustard bombs have shown up three time in the past 12 years in Delaware, likely brought in with loads of shellfish. [source](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decaying-weapons-world-war-II-threaten-waters-worldwide-180961046/)

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## Singular Pluralities
### Archives
Unbeknownst to most word processors, "an archives" is a grammatically correct phrase. "Archives" is one of those words that can be either singular or plural, though it is relatively common to drop the "s" when referring to the singular. "Archives" can refer to a collection of archival materials, the facility in which the materials are stored, or the organization that collects and maintains them.
### Chambers
It follows the same pattern Archives follow. The singular and plural versions can be used interchangeable.
## Notable Abbreviations
### Using Et Al.
* Means "and others."
* Example: "_The documentation Hadid et al. provided is sufficient._"
### Using Ibid.
* Abbreviation for _ibidem_
* Means "in the same place."
* Example: _"Ibid., 36." Where 36 denotes the page number._
### Using Etc.
* Abbreviation for _etcetera_
* Means "the rest."
* Example: _"I love you to pieces, distraction, etc._"
### Using i.e.
* Abbreviation for _id est_
* Means "that is"
* Example: _"Everyone will receive the standard discount; i.e., 20 percent."_
### Using e.g.
* Abbreviation for _exempli gratia_
* Means "for example"
* Example: "_Certain animals, e.g., nutria and otters, spend their lives in water._"
## Dashes
### Em Dash
Dash as wide as the letter M. Em dashes are punctuation marks used to emphasize or draw attention to parenthetical or amplifying material. They are often used in place of commas, parentheses, colons, and semicolons to increase sentence variety and readability.0 Em dashes are seen as being more interruptive or striking than other punctuation, so they are often used stylistically to draw a reader's attention to a particular bit of information.
**Examples:**
* Mabel the Cat was delighted with the assortment of pastries the new bakery featured, but Harry the Dog—he felt otherwise.
* While I was shopping—wandering aimlessly up and down the aisles, actually—I ran into our old neighbor.
* An etymological dictionary is one of the few books—no, it's the only book—you'll ever need.
* There has recently been an increase—though opposed fiercely by many people—in alternative education practices.
* He was going to call off the project—or was he?—when the client increased the payment.
* Traveling—that is, traveling by public transit—can be a relaxing activity if you bring music and reading material along with you.
### En Dashes
Dash as wide as the letter N. An en dash is a midsize punctuation mark used to show ranges in numbers, dates, or time frames.0 It is wider than a hyphen but narrower than an em dash.1 The en dash should not be left a space between the adjacent material, and it is read as "to" or "through" depending on the context.4 It can also be used for clarity in forming complex compound adjectives.0 Most keyboards don't have a key reserved for the en dash, and it usually needs to be added as a special character on most writing programs.3 In text, don't use an en dash in a range of times. Instead, use "to" instead. In a schedule or listing, use an en dash with no spaces around it: 10:00 AM–2:00 PM. When replacing the words from, to, through, between, or versus, use the en dash.
**Examples:**
* Our part-time employees work 20–30 hours per week.
* By Monday, you should have read pages 79–113.
* The years 1861–1865 were a dark time in American history.

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title: Learning Guitar
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## Guitar Tabs
When you are looking at a tab, you will see six horizontal lines. These lines represent the strings of the guitar. The bottom line is the 6th string (the thickest string on your guitar, low e) and the top line is the thinnest string (the first string, high e).
### Arpeggio
An [[Arpeggio|Arpeggio]] is a type of [[Chords|broken chord]] in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order. Arpeggios on keyboard instruments may be called _rolled chords_.
```md
e|--------2-----------------|
B|------3---3---------------|
G|----2-------2-------------|
D|--0-----------------------|
A|--------------------------|
E|--------------------------|
```
### Metallica – Enter the Sandman (Intro)
```md
e|---------------------|------------------|---------------|--------------------|
B|---------------------|------------------|---------------|--------------------|
G|---------------------|------------------|---------------|--------------------|
D|-------5-------------|----5-------------|----5----------|--------------------|
A|----7-----------7----|-7-----------7----|-7-----------7-|--------------------|
E|-0--------6--5-----0-|-------6--5-----0-|-------6--5----|--------------------|
```
### Pasted
The next note is marked as a 7 on the 5th string, so place a finger on the 5th string 7th fret. The third note is the 5th fret 4th string. By now you are probably realizing that in order to play this riff, you need to use your 3rd finger on the 7th fret and your first finger on the 5th fret.
You can then finish out the riff by grabbing the 6th fret on the 6th string with your second finger, then the 5th fret with your 1st finger, and finally the 7th fret 5th string (a string) with your 3rd finger.
## Sources
* [ultimate-guitar.com](https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/metallica/enter-sandman-tabs-8595 )
* [guitarlessons.org](https://www.guitarlessons.org/lessons/read-guitar-tabs/)

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## The Big and The Bold
* Happiness comes from Solving Problems.
* Turn off problem solving for others.
* Live you own life. Express your emotions.
* Settled for more. Don't push yourself, get _pulled_ by things you enjoy.
* If possible, decide ahead of time. So when time comes, you have already made your decision.
* Be present. Be purposeful when spending my time. Fully commit to conversation. Don't think about what to say. Listen.
* Wages are earned by the hour. Profits are earned while you _sleep_. Make something once, profit from it for the rest of your life.
* Adopt a morning and/or evening routine.
* Take regular breaks and walks.
* Set your intentions each day, week, month, or year.
* Go for walks. Embrace the outside.
* Set a deadline with consequences.
* Make a promise to someone that you'll deliver by a certain time.
* Reduce scope of the project and drop features as the deadline approaches.
* Break the project down into smaller pieces and set milestones for each one to achieve at.
* Design your working environment to promote focus by removing distractions and notifications.
## Ways to Approach Someone Seeking Help
* "Do you want reassurance, potential solutions, or my honest feelings?"
* "Do you want me to listen or to offer help?"
## Journaling…
### …for Problem Solving
* Problems tend to appear bigger than they actually are.
* Journaling, writing about your problems, we minimize them.
* Big problems, require small tasks. Every task is too big.
### …for Stress Management
* Scattered thinking can be stressful. Write the stress out. Digest them.
### … To Create New Habits
* Include a dedicated Journaling session before bed.
## Workflow Optimizations
* **Brevity** - Keep units small. Allows yourself to mark off at a minimum 2-4 tasks per day.
* **Hearing** - Control sounds around you. Use headphones and ADHD music.
* **Distraction** - Minimize distractions. Focus similarly to meditation.
* **Recall** - Use your Todo List to guide you through the day.
* **Techniques** - Give the Pomodoro technique a _serious_ try.
* **Comfort** - Make your work day/space as comfortable as possible. Don't be hard on yourself.
## Self Reflection
1. You Don't Know What You Want
2. You Are Not in Control of Your Physiology. A motivated person looks motivated. The unmotivated person looks unmotivated.
3. You Have Made "lack of motivation" Part of Your Identity. "I'm so stupid" vs "I just did something stupid".
4. You Are Not Aiming High Enough. Lack of exciting and desirable goals leads to low motivation. Apply the 10X Rule.
5. You Are Overwhelmed. Why are you overwhelmed. One goal at a time. Lower the bar.
6. You Are Prone to Procrastination. Ambiguity leads to procrastination, and procrastination leads to a lack of motivation.
7. You Are Not Being Specific Enough to Spur Motivation. When things are vague., motivation will fade. "Wake up earlier." Specific, actionable goals.
8. You Are Seeking Motivation Where You Should Be Seeking Habits
1. Identify the habit. "Develop a gym habit. Going 5x/week."
2. Identify your _CUE_. Every habit has a trigger. Alarm -> Waking up.
3. Identify the _REWARD_. the reward can be anything. The key is the craving.
4. Execute the _ROUTINE_. Perform the actual activity. "Driving to the gym."
5. Write it down, make it happen. When _X_, I will do _Y_, because it provides me with _Z_ (reward). Ex.: "When my alarm goes off at 6AM, I will _immediately_ jump out of the bed, and go straight into the bathroom/shower for 20 minutes. Because it provides a good foundation on which to set my day.

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title: What Inspires Me
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tags:
- list
---
## People Who Inspire Me
* [Jacky Zha](https://github.com/jackyzha0?tab=repositories)
* [Andy Bell](https://andy-bell.co.uk/)
* [Eric Bower](https://erock.prose.sh/)
* [Derek Sivers](https://sive.rs/)
* [Drew DeVault](https://drewdevault.com/)
* [Herman Martinus](https://herman.bearblog.dev/)
## Projects That Inspire Me
* [wttr.in](https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in) – Plain Text Weather
* [mataroa](https://github.com/mataroa-blog/mataroa) – Minimal Blogging Platform
* [Bearblog](https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog) – Blogging Platform
* [SorryTennesee](https://github.com/vpicone/SorryTennesee) – Remove Tennesee from drop-down menus.
* [Duotone Theme](https://github.com/Hussseinkizz/duotone-theme-v2-official) – VS Code Theme (Supports Liga)
* [Fira Code iScript](https://github.com/kencrocken/FiraCodeiScript) – Font Family (incl. ligations and cursive italics)
* [Anemone](https://github.com/Speyll/anemone) – Clean Zola theme. Integrates public journals.

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title: Life Lessons
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tags:
- list
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---
1. Live a life true to yourself.
2. Express your emotions.
3. Better done than perfect.
4. Settle for more.
5. Find something in life that _pulls_ you.
6. Go for walks.
7. Happiness comes from solving problems.
8. Develop a growth mindset.
9. Develop selected disciplines into habits.
10. Be "regular and orderly."
11. Be present.
12. Communication is your #1 skill.
13. Combine short-term pessimism + long-term optimism.
14. Write it down, make it happen.
15. Admit when you're wrong.
16. Read every day.
17. Profits are better than wages.
18. Give back + help as many people as possible.
19. Get grateful.
20. Embrace your failures.
21. Feel the fear and do it anyway.
22. You're already ready.
23. Do your ONE most important thing first.
24. Look at what's real.
25. Managing energy–not time–is the key to real productivity.
26. Prototype potential lifestyles.
27. Sweat every day.
28. Get mentors.
29. Take care of your family.
30. Live like you give a damn.

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# H1 Heading 1
## H2 Heading 2
### H3 Heading 3
#### H4 Heading 4
##### H5 Heading 5
###### H6 Heading 6
## Text Formatting
Text can be **bold**, _italic_, or ~~strikethrough~~.
You can [link](https://example.dom/) to external pages. and other internal [[Markdown|links]].
## Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Nested item
* Item 3
1. Line item
2. Line item
1. Nested item
3. Line item
## Blockquote
> ## This is a header.
> 1. This is the first list item.
> 2. This is the second list item.
>
> Here's some example code:
>
> Markdown.generate();
## Code
### Inline Code
Let us use some `inline code` and check out how it `looks`. Here's some `more`.
### Code Blocks
```html
<html>
<head>
<div style="background-color: #333;">
<a href="https://example.com/">Example</a>
</div>
</head>
</html>
```
```css
.niceClass {
color: blue;
background-color: #fff;
}
```
```js
// Javascript code with syntax highlighting.
var fun = function lang(l) {
dateformat.i18n = require('./lang/' + l)
return true;
}
```
## Tables
|head one|head two|head three|
|---|---|---|
|ok|good swedish fish|nice|
|out of stock|good and plenty|nice|
|ok|good `oreos`|hmm|
|ok|good `zoute` drop|yumm|
## Horizontal Rule
---
## Tasks and Todos
- [ ] Pending Task
- [x] Completed Task
* [-] Won't Do Task
* [/] In Progress Task
* [*] You are a star.
* [!] Exclamation Mark!
* [?] Question Mark?
* [<] Scheduled Task
* [>] Forwarded Task
## Images
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Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. Created by [John Gruber](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world's most popular markup languages.
Check out the [[Markdown Demo]].
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---
## What is Meditation?
### A Brief Explanation of the Practice
How do you learn to meditate? In mindfulness meditation, we're learning how to pay attention to the breath as it goes in and out, and notice when the mind wanders from this task. This practice of returning to the breath builds the muscles of attention and [mindfulness](https://www.mindful.org/what-is-mindfulness/).
When we pay attention to our breath, we are learning how to return to, and remain in, the present moment—to anchor ourselves in the here and now on purpose, without judgement.
The idea behind mindfulness seems simple—the practice takes patience. Indeed, renowned meditation teacher [Sharon Salzberg](https://www.mindful.org/author/sharon-salzberg/) recounts that her first experience with meditation showed her how quickly the mind gets caught up in other tasks. "I thought, okay, what will it be, like, 800 breaths before my mind starts to wander? And to my absolute amazement, it was one breath, and I'd be gone," says Salzberg.
## Why Learn to Meditate?
### A Selection of Benefits That Are Associated with Meditating
While meditation isn't a cure-all, it can certainly provide some much-needed space in your life. Sometimes, that's all we need to make better choices for ourselves, our families, and our communities. And the most important tools you can bring with you to your meditation practice are a little patience, some kindness for yourself, and a comfortable place to sit.
When we meditate, we inject far-reaching and long-lasting benefits into our lives. And bonus: you don't need any extra gear or an expensive membership.
### Here Are Five Reasons to Meditate
1. Understanding your pain
2. Lower your stress
3. Connect better
4. Improve focus
5. Reduce brain chatter
## How to Meditate
### Meditation is Something Everyone Can Do, Here's How
Meditation is simpler (and harder) than most people think. Read these steps, make sure you're somewhere where you can relax into this process, set a timer, and give it a shot:
1. Take a seat
Find place to sit that feels calm and quiet to you.
2. Set a time limit
If you're just beginning, it can help to choose a short time, such as five or 10 minutes.
3. Notice your body
You can sit in a chair with your feet on the floor, you can sit loosely cross-legged, you can kneel—all are fine. Just make sure you are stable and in a position you can stay in for a while.
4. Feel your breath
Follow the sensation of your breath as it goes in and as it goes out.
5. Notice when your mind has wandered
Inevitably, your attention will leave the breath and wander to other places. When you get around to noticing that your mind has wandered—in a few seconds, a minute, five minutes—simply return your attention to the breath.
6. Be kind to your wandering mind
Don't judge yourself or obsess over the content of the thoughts you find yourself lost in. Just come back.
7. Close with kindness
When you're ready, gently lift your gaze (if your eyes are closed, open them). Take a moment and notice any sounds in the environment. Notice how your body feels right now. Notice your thoughts and emotions.
You focus your attention, your mind wanders, you bring it back, and you try to do it as kindly as possible (as many times as you need to).
## How Much Should I Meditate?
Meditation is no more complicated than what we've described above. It is that simple … and that challenging. It's also powerful and worth it. The key is to commit to sit every day, even if it's for five minutes. Meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg says: "One of my meditation teachers said that the most important moment in your meditation practice is the moment you sit down to do it. Because right then you're saying to yourself that you believe in change, you believe in caring for yourself, and you're making it real. You're not just holding some value like mindfulness or compassion in the abstract, but really making it real."
Recent research from neuroscientist Amishi Jha discovered that [12 minutes of meditation, 5 days a week](https://www.mindful.org/find-your-focus-own-your-attention-in-12-minutes-a-day/) can protect and strengthen your ability to pay attention.
### Meditation Tips and Techniques
We've gone over the basic breath meditation so far, but there are other mindfulness techniques that use different focal points than the breath to anchor our attention—external objects like a sound in the room, or something broader, such as noticing spontaneous things that come into your awareness during an [aimless wandering practice](https://www.mindful.org/aimless-wandering-mindfulness-practice-video/). But all of these practices have one thing in common: We notice that our minds ARE running the show a lot of the time. It's true. We think thoughts, typically, and then we act. But here are some helpful strategies to change that up:
### How to Make Mindfulness a Habit
It's estimated that 95% of our behavior runs on autopilot. That's because neural networks underlie all of our habits, reducing our millions of sensory inputs per second into manageable shortcuts so we can function in this crazy world. These default brain signals are so efficient that they often cause us to relapse into old behaviors before we remember what we meant to do instead. 
Mindfulness is the exact opposite of these default processes. It's executive control rather than autopilot, and enables intentional actions, willpower, and decisions. But that takes _practice_. The more we activate the intentional brain, the stronger it gets. Every time we do something deliberate and new, we stimulate neuroplasticity, activating our grey matter, which is full of newly sprouted neurons that have not yet been groomed for "autopilot" brain. 
But here's the problem. While our intentional brain knows what is best for us, our autopilot brain causes us to shortcut our way through life. So how can we trigger ourselves to be mindful when we need it most? This is where the notion of "behavior design" comes in. It's a way to put your intentional brain in the driver's seat. There are two ways to do that—first, slowing down the autopilot brain by putting obstacles in its way, and second, removing obstacles in the path of the intentional brain, so it can gain control. 
Shifting the balance to give your intentional brain more power takes some work, though. Here are some ways to get started. 
* **Put meditation reminders around you.** If you intend to do some yoga or to meditate, put your yoga mat or your meditation cushion in the middle of your floor so you can't miss it as you walk by. 
* **Refresh your reminders regularly.** Say you decide to use sticky notes to remind yourself of a new intention. That might work for about a week, but then your autopilot brain and old habits take over again. Try writing new notes to yourself; add variety or make them funny. That way they'll stick with you longer. 
* **Create new patterns.** You could try a series of "If this, then that" messages to create easy reminders to shift into the intentional brain. For instance, you might come up with, "If office door, then deep breath," as a way to shift into mindfulness as you are about to start your workday. Or, "If phone rings, take a breath before answering." Each intentional action to shift into mindfulness will strengthen your intentional brain.
## Some Basic Meditations
### These Are Some Meditation Practices to Get You Going
## A Basic Meditation for Beginners
The first thing to clarify: What we're doing here is aiming for mindfulness, not some process that magically wipes your mind clear of the countless and endless thoughts that erupt and ping constantly in our brains. We're just practicing bringing our attention to our breath, and then back to the breath when we notice our attention has wandered.
* **Get comfortable** **and prepare to sit still for a few minutes.** After you stop reading this, you're going to simply focus on your own natural inhaling and exhaling of breath.
* **Focus on your breath.** Where do you feel your breath most? In your belly? In your nose? Try to keep your attention on your inhale and exhale.
* **Follow your breath for two minutes**. Take a deep inhale, expanding your belly, and then exhale slowly, elongating the out-breath as your belly contracts.
Welcome back. What happened? How long was it before your mind wandered away from your breath? Did notice how busy your mind was even without your consciously directing it to think about anything in particular? Did you notice yourself getting caught up in thoughts before you came back to reading this? We often have little narratives running in our minds that we didn't choose to put there, like: "Why DOES my boss want to meet with me tomorrow?" "I should have gone to the gym yesterday." "I've got to pay some bills" or (the classic) "I don't have time to sit still, I've got stuff to do."
If you experienced these sorts of distractions (and we all do), you've made an important discovery: simply put, that's the opposite of mindfulness. It's when we live in our heads, on automatic pilot, letting our thoughts go here and there, exploring, say, the future or the past, and essentially, not being present in the moment. But that's where most of us live most of the time—and pretty uncomfortably, if we're being honest, right? But it doesn't have to be that way.
We "practice" mindfulness so we can learn how to recognize when our minds are doing their normal everyday acrobatics, and maybe take a pause from that for just a little while so we can choose what we'd like to focus on. In a nutshell, meditation helps us have a much healthier relationship with ourselves (and, by extension, with others).
### 3 Guided Meditations for Beginners
Guided meditations are an excellent tool for beginners, as they provide a focal point and gentle instruction to help you connect and let go of self-judgment.
Try this 3-part guided audio series from Mindful Editor-in-Chief Barry Boyce:
How long would you like to meditate? Sometimes we only have time for a quick check-in, sometimes we can dip in a little longer. Meditating every day helps build awareness, fosters resilience, and lower stress. Try to make meditation a habit by practicing with these short meditations from our [founding editor Barry Boyce](https://www.mindful.org/author/barry-boyce/). Find time to site once a day for one month and see what you notice.
### 1-Minute Meditation
A short practice for settling the mind, intended for doing in the middle of the day, wherever you are out in the world.
### 10-Minute Meditation
A longer practice that explores meditation posture, breathing techniques, and working with thoughts and emotions as they surface during mindfulness practice.
### 15-Minute Meditation
A practice that explores sitting in formal meditation for longer periods of time.
#### More Styles of Mindfulness Meditation
Once you have explored a basic seated meditation practice, you might want to consider other forms of meditation including walking and lying down. Whereas the previous meditations used the breath as a focal point for practice, these meditations below focus on different parts of the body.
#### Introduction to the Body Scan Meditation
Try this: feel your feet on the ground right now. In your shoes or without, it doesn't matter. Then track or scan over your whole body, bit by bit—slowly—all the way up to the crown of your head. The point of this practice is to check in with your whole body: Fingertips to shoulders, butt to big toe. Only rules are: No judging, no wondering, no worrying (all activities your mind may want to do); just check in with the physical feeling of being in your body. Aches and pains are fine. You don't have to do anything about anything here. You're just noticing.
### Body Scan Meditation
A brief body awareness practice for tuning in to sensations, head-to-toe.
Begin to focus your attention on different parts of your body. You can spotlight one particular area or go through a sequence like this: toes, feet (sole, heel, top of foot), through the legs, pelvis, abdomen, lower back, upper back, chest shoulders, arms down to the fingers, shoulders, neck, different parts of the face, and head. For each part of the body, linger for a few moments and notice the different sensations as you focus.
The moment you notice that your mind has wandered, return your attention to the part of the body you last remember.
If you fall asleep during this body-scan practice, that's okay. When you realize you've been nodding off, take a deep breath to help you reawaken and perhaps reposition your body (which will also help wake it up). When you're ready, return your attention to the part of the body you last remember focusing on.
#### Introduction to the Walking Meditation
Fact: Most of us live pretty sedentary lives, leaving us to build extra-curricular physical activity into our days to counteract all that. Point is: Mindfulness doesn't have to feel like another thing on your to-do list. It can be injected into some of the activities you're already doing. Here's how to integrate a mindful walking practice into your day.
### Walking Meditation
A mindful movement practice for bringing awareness to what we feel with each step.
As you begin, walk at a natural pace. Place your hands wherever comfortable: on your belly, behind your back, or at your sides.
* If you find it useful, **you can count steps up to 10**, and then start back at one again. If you're in a small space, as you reach ten, pause, and with intention, choose a moment to turn around.
* With each step, **pay attention to the lifting and falling of your foot**. Notice movement in your legs and the rest of your body. Notice any shifting of your body from side to side.
* Whatever else captures your attention, **come back to the sensation of walking**. Your mind will wander, so without frustration, guide it back again as many times as you need.
* Particularly outdoors, **maintain a larger sense of the environment around you**, taking it all in, staying safe and aware.
#### Introduction to Loving-Kindness Meditation
You cannot will yourself into particular feelings toward yourself or anyone else. Rather, you can practice reminding yourself that you deserve happiness and ease and that the same goes for your child, your family, your friends, your neighbors, and everyone else in the world.
### A Loving-Kindness Meditation
Explore this practice to extend compassion to yourself, those around you, and the larger world.
This loving-kindness practice involves silently repeating phrases that offer good qualities to oneself and to others.
1. **You can start by taking delight in your own goodness**—calling to mind things you have done out of good-heartedness, and rejoicing in those memories to celebrate the potential for goodness we all share.
2. **Silently recite phrases** that reflect what we wish most deeply for ourselves in an enduring way. Traditional phrases are:
* May I live in safety.
* May I have mental happiness (peace, joy).
* May I have physical happiness (health, freedom from pain).
* May I live with ease.
3. **Repeat the phrases** with enough space and silence between so they fall into a rhythm that is pleasing to you. Direct your attention to one phrase at a time.
4. **Each time you notice your attention has wandered, be kind to yourself** and let go of the distraction. Come back to repeating the phrases without judging or disparaging yourself.
5. **After some time, visualize yourself in the center of a circle** composed of those who have been kind to you, or have inspired you because of their love. Perhaps you've met them, or read about them; perhaps they live now, or have existed historically or even mythically. That is the circle. As you visualize yourself in the center of it, experience yourself as the recipient of their love and attention. Keep gently repeating the phrases of loving-kindness for yourself.
6. **To close the session, let go of the visualization**, and simply keep repeating the phrases for a few more minutes. Each time you do so, you are transforming your old, hurtful relationship to yourself, and are moving forward, sustained by the force of kindness.
### Beyond the Beginning
#### What to Know and Where to Go When You've Started
### Frequently Asked Questions About Mindfulness Meditation, Answered
When you're new to meditation, it's natural for questions to pop up often. These answers may ease your mind.
1. If I have an itch, can I scratch it?
Yes—however, first try scratching it with your mind before using your fingers.
2. Should I breathe fast or slow or in between?
Only worry if you've stopped breathing. Otherwise, you're doing fine. Breath in whatever way feels comfortable to you.
3. Should my eyes be open or closed?
No hard-and-fast rules. Try both. If open, not too wide, and with a soft, slightly downward gaze, not focusing on anything in particular. If closed, not too hard, and not imagining anything in particular in your mind's eye.
4. Is it possible I'm someone who just CANNOT meditate?
When you find yourself asking that question, your meditation has officially begun. Everyone wonders that. Notice it. Escort your attention back to your object of focus (the breath). When you're lost and questioning again, come back to the breathe again. That's the practice. There's no limit to the number of times you can be distracted and come back to the breath. Meditating is not a race to perfection—It's returning again and again to the breath.
5. Is it better to practice in a group or by myself?
Both are great! It's enormously supportive to meditate with others. And, practicing on your own builds discipline.
6. What's the best time of day to meditate?
Whatever works. Consider your circumstances: children, pets, work. Experiment. But watch out. If you always choose the most convenient time, it will usually be tomorrow.
7. What if I get sexually (and physically) aroused by thoughts in my head?
No big deal. Meditation stokes the imagination. In time, every thought and sensation will pop up (so to speak). And come back. Same old story. Release the thought, bring awareness and receptivity to body sensations, bring attention back to your chosen object (the breath, in this case). Repeat.
8. Do you have any tips on integrating pets into meditation practice?
While meditating, we don't have to fight off distractions like a knight slaying dragons. If your dog or cat comes into the room and barks and meows and brushes up against you or settles down on a part of your cushion, no big deal. Let it be. What works less well is to interrupt your session to relate to them. If that's what's going to happen, try to find a way to avoid their interrupting your practice.
#### More Guided Meditation Practices
### The RAIN Meditation with Tara Brach
A practice for difficult emotions, RAIN is an acronym for Recognition of what is going on; Acceptance of the experience, just as it is; Interest in what is happening; and Nurture with loving presence.
#### A Mindfulness Practice to Foster Forgiveness
Explore this practice to let go of the tendency to add to our suffering during challenging situations.
#### Additional Resources & Articles
Mindful has many resources to help you live a more mindful life and tap into the best of who you are:
* [Getting Started](https://www.mindful.org/meditation/mindfulness-getting-started/)
* [Guided Meditation](https://www.mindful.org/category/meditation/guided-meditation/)
* [Meditation for Anxiety](https://www.mindful.org/mindfulness-meditation-anxiety/)
* [Sign up for Mindful Newsletters](https://www.mindful.org/mindfulnewsletters/)
* [Mindful Magazine Subscription](https://subscribe.pcspublink.com/sub/subscribe.aspx?guid=1e26c2c6-2a0b-48f0-a4e2-86cc9a400cee)
* [Special Edition Guides](https://mindful-magazine.myshopify.com/collections/special-editions)
* [Mindful Online Learning](https://learning.mindful.org/)
## Unorganized Research
The VA has developed [a bunch of mental health apps](https://mobile.va.gov/appstore/mental-health) that are free to the general public. Some were designed with veterans as the target audience, but some were designed to be used by anyone.
[Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/ln2fyy/ysk_if_you_cant_afford_to_pay_for_mindfulness/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x)
Some highlights are:
* [Mindfulness Coach](https://mobile.va.gov/app/mindfulness-coach), which offers a self-guided mindfulness course and some recorded mindfulness exercises similar to what you can find on Headspace
* [Insomnia Coach](https://mobile.va.gov/app/insomnia-coach), which walks you through a treatment program for insomnia and has features like guided imagery recordings
* [MOVE Coach](https://mobile.va.gov/app/move-coach) which can help with weight loss and exercise in a guided program
* As a last resort - [One Mind Psyber Guide](https://onemindpsyberguide.org/)
Others:
* Insight timer: "Tons of free guided meditation, meditation timer for your own sessions, groups, livestreams with meditation teachers, groups etc."
* Waking Up by Sam Harris: "the most comprehensive, thoughtful, and exceptionally managed mediation app on the market, in my opinion"
* Balance: "also has a free year subscription!! I love their immersive meditations and Singles. I think they'll have an Android version out in March so everyone can get a free year."
* Woebot: "It runs through Facebook Messenger or as a separate app on your phone and guides you through cognitive behavioral therapy exercises."
* Smiling Mind: "Smiling mind is amazing! Their sleep meditations help me nod off every single night now, and for those who need some background sounds to fall asleep to, the optional music on each meditation is perfect."
* Medito: "Highly recommend Medito that has a pledge to keep their app free for all."
* The Portland VA worked with The DOD on another one called [Virtual Hope Box](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/virtual-hope-box/id825099621) that was designed around suicide prevention. My wife was pet of the study around efficacy, and I have used it myself. Great app and definitely should be included in this topic.

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title: Meta (how this site was made)
description: How the site was made.
compartir: true
lastmod: 2023-09-19
---
> [!summary]
>
> **Purple Garden** is created using [Quartz](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/tree/hugo), hosted on [GitHub](https://github.com/), deployed with [GitHub Pages](https://pages.github.com/), and facilitated by the GitHub [Publisher](https://github.com/ObsidianPublisher) plugin for [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/). If interested, you can browse the [source](https://github.com/semanticdata/purple-was-taken) code.
## Technologies
**Purple Garden** is built with the help of [Quartz v3.3](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/tree/hugo).
All content for the site is written in [[Markdown]] within [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/)—an extensible, flexible note-taking app. To export the notes from Obsidian, I rely on the [GitHub Publisher](https://github.com/ObsidianPublisher) plugin.
The [source code](https://github.com/semanticdata/forgetful-dev) is hosted in [GitHub](https://github.com/). From here we use GitHub [Actions](https://github.com/features/actions) to build and deploy the site to GitHub [Pages](https://pages.github.com/).
### Quartz V3.3 Features
* Design based around [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/)
* Fast Natural-Language Search
* Bidirectional Backlinks
* Floating Link Previews
* Local and Page (specific) Graph
* Admonition-style Callouts
* Markdown Links and Wikilinks Support
* Latex Support
Proud member of the 512KB Club's Blue Team with a recorded total uncompressed size of only 406KB.
<a href="https://512kb.club"><img src="https://512kb.club/assets/images/blue-team.svg" alt="a proud member of the blue team of 512KB club" /></a>
## Appearance
### Font Families
* Default Sans Serif:
`-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif`
* Default Monospace:
`ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, SF Mono, Menlo, monospace`
### Illustrations
The website makes use of the beautiful illustrations by <a href="https://storyset.com/people">Storyset</a>.
## Site Structure
```
root/
├── .github/
│ └── workflows/
├── assets/
│ ├── indices/
│ ├── js/
│ └── styles/
├── content/
│ └── assets/
├── data/
├── i18n/
├── layouts/
│ └── default/
│ ├── markup/
│ └── partials/
└── static/
```

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title: Micropolitan Statistical Area
tags:
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Micropolitan Statistical Areas are labor market and statistical areas in the United States centered on an urban cluster with a population of at least 10,000 but fewer than 50,000 people.
The designation was created in 2003 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Micropolitan areas include the county where the urban cluster is and adjacent counties linked by commuting ties. The OMB has identified 543 micropolitan areas in the United States.

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title: Move Your Body
compartir: true
lastmod: 2023-09-18
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Move your body every day. Benefits include:
* Improved sleep quality
* Less risk of chronic disease
* Increased productivity
* Reduced anxiety
The "every day" part is important, because [[Consistency]] is key to most things worth doing.
> [!warning]
>
> This note is a [[Stub]]. The information has yet to be curated or processed yet.

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title: NeoVim
compartir: true
lastmod: 2023-09-18
tags:
- reference
enableToc: true
aliases:
- Nvim
- Vim
---
[Dotfiles](https://github.com/semanticdata/dotfiles) – [Website](https://neovim.io/) – [Documentation](https://neovim.io/doc/)
**Sync from CLI** → `nvim --headless "+Lazy! sync" +qa`
## Keybindings
| Key Combination | Command |
| --- | --- |
| `<leader>` | `<space>` |
| **Unsorted** |
| `<leader>h` | `^` |
| `<leader>l` | `g_` |
| `<leader>a` | `:keepjumps normal! ggVG<cr>` |
| `gy` | `"+y` |
| `gp` | `"+p` |
| `x` | `"_x` |
| `<leader>e` | `<cmd>NvimTreeToggle<cr>` |
| **Commands** |
| `<leader>w` | `<cmd>write<cr>` |
| `<leader>bq` | `<cmd>bdelete<cr>` |
| `<leader>bl` | `<cmd>buffer #<cr>` |
| `<F2>` | `<cmd>Lexplore<cr>` |
| `<space><space>` | `<F2>` |
| **Telescope** |
| `<leader><space>` | `<cmd>Telescope buffers<cr>` |
| `<leader>?` | `<cmd>Telescope oldfiles<cr>` |
| `<leader>ff` | `<cmd>Telescope find_files<cr>` |
| `<leader>fg` | `<cmd>Telescope live_grep<cr>` |
| `<leader>fd` | `<cmd>Telescope diagnostics<cr>` |
| `<leader>fs` | `<cmd>Telescope current_buffer_fuzzy_find<cr>` |
| **Telescope (builtin)** |
| `<leader>ff` | `builtin.find_files, {}` |
| `<leader>fg` | `builtin.live_grep, {}` |
| `<leader>fb` | `builtin.buffers, {}` |
| `<leader>fh` | `builtin.help_tags, {}` |
| **Normal Mode** |
| `<C-q>` | `:q!<CR>` |
| `<F4>` | `:bd<CR>` |
| **Moving Vertically** |
| `<C-d>` | `<C-d>zz` |
| `<C-u>` | `<C-u>zz` |
| `n` | `nzzzv` |
| `N` | `Nzzzv` |
| **Tab Navigation** |
| `<S-Tab>` | `gT` |
| `<Tab>` | `gt` |
| `<silent <S-t>` | `:tabnew<CR>` |
| **Pane/Window Navigation** |
| `<C-h>` | `<C-w>h` |
| `<C-j>` | `<C-w>j` |
| `<C-k>` | `<C-w>k` |
| `<C-l>` | `<C-w>l` |
| `<C-left>` | `<C-w>h` |
| `<C-down>` | `<C-w>j` |
| `<C-up>` | `<C-w>k` |
| `<C-right>` | `<C-w>l` |
| **Terminal** |
| `<A-t>` | `:sp term://pwsh<cr>i` |
| `tv` | `:lcd %:p:h<CR>:vsp term://pwsh<CR>i` |
| `th` | `:lcd %:p:h<CR>:sp term://pwsh<CR>i` |
| `<Esc>` | `<C-\\><C-n>` |
| `:q!` | `<C-\\><C-n>:q!<CR>` |
## Plugins
| Author/Plugin | Description |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [akinsho/bufferline.nvim](https://github.com/akinsho/bufferline.nvim) | A snazzy bufferline for Neovim. |
| [akinsho/toggleterm.nvim](https://github.com/akinsho/toggleterm.nvim) | A neovim lua plugin to help easily manage multiple terminal windows. |
| [ap/vim-css-color](https://github.com/ap/vim-css-color) | Preview colours in source code while editing. |
| [editorconfig/editorconfig-vim](https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig-vim) | EditorConfig plugin for Vim. |
| [folke/tokyonight.nvim](https://github.com/folke/tokyonight.nvim) | Theme |
| [kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua](https://github.com/kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua) | A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua. |
| [kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons](https://github.com/kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons) | Lua "fork" of vim-web-devicons for neovim. |
| [lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim](https://github.com/lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim) | Git integration for buffers. |
| [lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim](https://github.com/lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim) | Indent guides for Neovim. |
| [numToStr/Comment.nvim](https://github.com/numToStr/Comment.nvim) | Smart and powerful comment plugin for neovim. |
| [nvim-lua/plenary.nvim](https://github.com/nvim-lua/plenary.nvim) | All the lua functions I [they] don't want to write twice. |
| [nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim](https://github.com/nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim) | neovim statusline plugin written in pure lua. |
| [nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim](https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim) | Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time. |
| [nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-textobjects](https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-textobjects) | Syntax aware text-objects, select, move, swap, and peek support. |
| [nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter](https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter) | Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer. |
| [ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good](https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good) | Nvim plugin designed to make you better at Vim Movements. |
| [tpope/vim-fugitive](https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive) | A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal. |
| [vim-telescope/telescope-fzf-native.nvim](https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope-fzf-native.nvim) | Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time. |
| [wellle/targets.vim](https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim) | Vim plugin that provides additional text objects. |

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title: Newsletters I Read
tags:
- list
compartir: true
lastmod: 2023-09-18
---
* [The Daily Dip](https://www.thedailydip.co/) – Daily News.
* [8bit News](https://8bitnews.io/) – Collected, curated, 8bit news.
* [The Orbital Index](https://orbitalindex.com/) – Space: weekly, technical, curated.
* [FOSS Weekly](https://fossweekly.beehiiv.com/) – Weekly newsletter on Open Source Software.
* [AskHN Digest](https://askhndigest.com/) – Weekly newsletter with the top threads from [AskHN](https://news.ycombinator.com/ask).
* [TL;DR](https://tldr.tech/) – Daily newsletter with links and TLDRs about: startups, tech, and programming.
* [Dense Discovery](https://www.densediscovery.com/) – Weekly newsletter helping you feel inspired, be productive & think critically.

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title: Podcasts I Listen To
tags:
- list
compartir: true
lastmod: 2023-09-18
---
## Regular Shows
_These are the shows I listen to on release._
* [Accidental Tech Podcast](https://atp.fm/) – Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
* [Remaster](https://www.relay.fm/remaster) – Federico Viticci, Shahid Kamal Ahmad, Myke Hurley
* [Connected](https://www.relay.fm/connected) – Federico Viticci, Stephen Hackett, Myke Hurley
* [Material](https://www.relay.fm/material) – Andy Ihnatko, Florence Ion (best-name-ever)
* [Reconcilable Differences](https://www.relay.fm/rd) – Merlin Mann, John Siracusa
* [Ungeniused](https://www.relay.fm/ungeniused) – Stephen Hackett, Myke Hurley
* [The Pen Addict](https://www.relay.fm/penaddict) – Brad Dowdy, Myke Hurley
* [Upgrade](https://www.relay.fm/upgrade) – Jason Snell, Myke Hurley
* [Cortex](https://www.relay.fm/cortex) – CGP Grey, Myke Hurley
## Unscheduled Shows
_These are the shows I don't listen to regularly._
* [Clockwise](https://www.relay.fm/clockwise) – Dan Moren, Mikah Sargent, 2 guests
* [Focused](https://www.relay.fm/focused) – David Sparks, Mike Schmitz
* [Analog(ue)](https://www.relay.fm/analogue) – Casey Liss, Myke Hurley
* [Liftoff](https://www.relay.fm/liftoff) – Jason Snell, Stephen Hackett
* [Conduit](https://www.relay.fm/conduit) – Kathy Campbell, Jay Miller

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title: Learning Poetry
description: Poetry is a broad literary category that covers everything from bawdy limericks to unforgettable song lyrics to the sentimental couplets inside greeting cards. A poem is a singular piece of poetry.
source: https://www.fromwhisperstoroars.com/blog-1/2019/4/3/writing-poetry-for-beginners
tags:
- learning
- writing
compartir: true
lastmod: 2023-09-18
enableToc: true
---
Poetry is a broad literary category that covers everything from bawdy limericks to unforgettable song lyrics to the sentimental couplets inside greeting cards. A **poem** is a singular piece of poetry.
* Show, don't tell. The goal is to provoke an emotion in the reader.
* Less can be more. While it's perfectly acceptable to write long, flowery verse, using simple, concise language is also powerful. Word choice and poem length are up to you.
* It's OK to break grammatical rules when doing so helps you express yourself.
The key elements that distinguish poetry from other kinds of literature include sound, rhythm, rhyme, and format. One thing poetry has in common with other kinds of literature is its use of literary devices. Poems, like other kinds of creative writing, often make use of allegories and other kinds of figurative language to communicate themes.
## Chasing the Sounds
Sometimes poetry is most impactful when it's listened to rather than read. Take the next example:
> [!quote] The Cold Wind Blows by Kelly Roper
>
> Who knows why the cold wind blows
> Or where it goes, or what it knows.
> It only flows in passionate throes
> Until it finally slows and settles in repose.
Poets create _sound_ in a variety of ways, like alliteration, assonance, and consonance.
## Units of Poetry
Syllables are grouped together to form **feet**, units that make up a line of poetry. A _foot_ is generally two or three syllables, and each combination of two or three stressed and unstressed syllables has a unique name.
One of the many kinds of rhythm is _Iambic Pentameter_ which was used frequently by Shakespeare. An **iamb** is a two-syllable foot where the second syllable is stressed: duh-DUH. A **pentameter** means that each line in the poem has five feet or ten total syllables.
## Not Everything is Stressed
Stressed and unstressed syllables aren't the only way you can create rhythm in your poetry. Another technique poets frequently embrace is repetition. Repetition underscores the words being repeated, which could be a phrase or a single word.
> [!quote] Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
>
> Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
> I rise
> Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
> I rise
> Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
> I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
> I rise
> I rise
> I rise.
## Time to Rhyme
With poetry, rhythm and rhyme go hand in hand. Both create musicality in the poem, making it pleasurable to recite and listen to. Rhymes can appear anywhere in a poem, not just at the ends of alternating lines.
> [!quote] Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol
>
> One, two! One, two! And through and through
> The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
> He left it dead, and with its head
> He went galumphing back.
## Formatting
Poems are not formatted the same way as **prose**. Sentences end in weird places, there are blank lines between the different sections, one word might have a line all to itself, or the words might be arranged in a shape that makes a picture on the page.
A **stanza** is the poetic equivalent of a paragraph. It's a group of lines that (usually) adheres to a specific rhyme or rhythm pattern.
## Literary Devices
* Figurative language
* Juxtaposition
* Onomatopoeia
* Simile
* Metaphor
* Puns
* Chiasmus
* Imagery
* Hyperbole
* Mood
* Motif
* Personification

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title: Procrastination Avoidal Tactics
tags:
- list
compartir: true
lastmod: 2023-09-18
---
1. Shower in the morning.
2. Do not multitask—our brain is single-threaded.
3. Turn your daily habits into a game.
4. Get some movement in before starting work. Go for a walk, a short bike ride, something outside.
5. Tiny habits deliver big results in a year.
6. If you want to change, start with the type of content you consume.
7. Stop obsessing over productivity hacks and actually start working on your backlog.
8. Have no "Zero-Days." Get something, anything at all done everyday. No matter how small.
9. Don't oversleep, wake up at a standard time each workday, and start work at a standard time each day.
10. Stop watchin the news.
11. Eat the Frog. Identify one challenging task (the frong), and complete it first thing in the morning (thus eating it).
12. Fix and maintain a healthy sleep schedule.
13. It doesn't need to be perfect, it does need to be started.
14. Consistency is more important than intensity.

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title: Projects Overview
compartir: true
lastmod: 2023-09-18
---
## Obsidian Test Vault
Opinionated Obsidian Starter.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/obsidian-test-vault)
## Silicon Dioxide
Quartz based Hugo theme.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/silicon-dioxide)
## Zola Quartz
Port of Quartz (Hugo) to Zola.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/zola-quartz)
## Inactive Projects
### Anpu Tale
Zola theme combining the Anpu and Tale themes.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/zola-anpu-tale)
### Tabspace
Chrome extension being ported to Firefox.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/tabspace)
* https://github.com/jackyzha0/tabspace
* https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/porting-a-google-chrome-extension/
* https://www.extensiontest.com/
### Dotfiles
Nvim, GitHub, Obsidian configuration files.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/dotfiles)
### Sorry Minnesota
Firefox Extension that removes all states starting with "M" except Minnesota within most dropdown menus.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/firefox-sorry-minnesota-only)
* Clean the repetitive `elArray` definitions.
### MiguelPimentel.do
Personal blog and landing page.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/miguel-pimentel-do)
### Purple Garden
My Digital Garden. Between an online notebook, and a personal wiki.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/purple-was-taken)
### Font Design
This is a compilation of some font editing tools to play around with.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/font-design)
### Logo Design
I'm designing some logos to use with current and future projects and websites.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/logo-design)
### Trying Times
A simple Firefox Theme featuring minimal dark mode colors, background pattern, and easily identifiable current tab highlight border color.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/firefox-theme-trying-times)
### Walk For Animals
Donation landing page for the Minnesota Animal Humane Society yearly Walk for Animals fundraiser.
[Source](https://github.com/semanticdata/walk-for-animals)

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compartir: true
enableToc: true
lastmod: 2023-09-18
---
> This section explores the concept of maintaining a Public Journal.
> It takes inspiration from the [Journal of an Enigmatic Mind](https://speyllsite.pages.dev/journal/).
## 2023-09-12
**Notes**
* Added configuration for [Alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty) to my [dotfiles](https://github.com/semanticdata/dotfiles) repo.
* I am done trying out Brave's vertical tabs. They did not fit my current workflow. The implementation left a lot to be desired.
**Silicon Dioxide**
* Expanded adjustments and changes made to [Silicon Dioxide](https://github.com/semanticdata/silicon-dioxide) repo.
* Fully rebranded from Quartz to Silicon Dioxide.
* Deployed the site using GitHub Pages.
* Consolidated changes previously made to **Purple Garden** into **Silicon Dioxide**.
> [Link Of The Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number?useskin=vector)
## 2023-09-06
**Notes**
* As I continue to test Brave vertical tabs, I keep finding myself liking them less and less. I am not quite sure why the vertical tabs implementation in the Firefox sidebar feels much better to me.
**Digital Garden**
* Rewrote [[Meta]].
* Changed `markup -> tableOfContents -> ordered` to false within `hugo.yaml`.
* Added default options for: `noH1`, `tabWidth`, `hl_inline`, `canonifyURLs`.
* Added `enableEmoji: true` to `config.yaml`.
* Modified `img.center` to use `display: flex` instead of `display: block`.
* Commented out `background-color: var(--lightgray);` from `#search-icon`.
* Commented out `<p>{{ i18n "search" }}</p>` from `header.html`.
* Reduced `{{ i18n "recent_notes" }}` from `h2` to `h3` in `recent.html` to match the Interactive Graph header.
* Bumped `npm: d3` from `@6.7.0` to `@7.8.5` in `graph.html`. Updated integrity check from sha256 to sha384.
* Bumped `npm: floating-ui/core` in `head.html` from `1.2.1` to `1.4.1`. Added sha384 integrity check.
* Bumped `npm: floating-ui/dom` in `head.html` from `1.4.1` to `1.5.1`. Added sha384 integrity check.
* Bumped `npm: katex` from `@0.15.1` to `@0.16.8` within `katex.html`. Updated its multiple sha384 checks.
* Bumped `npm: mermaid` from `@9` to `@10.4.0` within `head.html` and `mermaid.html`.
* Bumped `npm: flexsearch` from `@0.7.21` to `@0.7.31`. Updated integrity check from sha256 to sha384.
* Moved `<style>` from within [[Digital Garden Colors]]. Added `.block` styling to `custom.scss`. Introduced `margin: auto;` to center the color blocks.
> [Link Of The Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood?useskin=vector)
## 2023-09-05
**Notes**
* Trying out Brave's vertical tabs. Initially, I do not like it.
* Created a new repo to hold my [dotfiles](https://github.com/semanticdata/dotfiles) and configurations.
**Digital Garden**
* Removed `text-align: justify;` from `body`. Applied to `article p` within `base.scss` instead. Much better implementation.
* Added `text-align: left` to `p .meta`.
* Removed `font-size: large;` from `.section-li & h3`.
* Commented out `margin-top: 2em` from `.section-ul`.
* Enable `Recent Notes` in `config.yaml`.
* Added `height: 36px` to new `.content-list .section` to standardise the height of the list items within `Recent Notes`.
* Removed `font-size: large` from `.section-li & h3`.
> [Link Of The Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz?useskin=vector)
## 2023-09-01
**Notes**
* Renamed multiple GitHub repos. Namely, `hugo-lowkey` was renamed to [miguel-pimentel-do](https://github.com/semanticdata/miguel-pimentel-do), `hugo-quartz` was renamed to [stressed-dev](https://github.com/semanticdata/stressed-dev). Both, together with [forgetful-dev](https://github.com/semanticdata/forgetful-dev), are now named based on their domains.
* Created new repos [test-hugo-lowkey](https://github.com/semanticdata/test-hugo-lowkey), and [test-hugo-quartz](https://github.com/semanticdata/test-hugo-quartz) to test GitHub Actions. This proved fruitful as I was able to understand, simplify builds, and deployments. Mainly, eliminated the need to deploy Quartz v3.3 from the `gh-pages` branch.
**Digital Garden**
* _"Downgraded"_ from [Quartz v4.0.7](https://github.com/semanticdata/forgetful-dev) to [Quartz v3.3](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/tree/hugo) in an effort to retain control of fewer moving parts.
* It is no longer hosted in [forgetful-dev](https://github.com/semanticdata/forgetful-dev). It can now be found in newly created [purple-was-taken](https://github.com/semanticdata/purple-was-taken); which also follows the domain naming convention mentioned in the first bullet point.
* Added `text-align: justify;` to the `body`. Good results so far.
* Reduced `margin-top: 2em;` to `margin-top: 1em;` in `.section-ul`.
* Reduced `margin-bottom: 1em;` to `margin-bottom: 0.5em;` in `.section-li`.
* Added `font-size: large;` to `.section-li & h3`.
* Reduced `flex-basis: 6em;` to `flex-basis: 5em;` in `.section-li & p`.
> [Link Of The Day](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espalier)
## 2023-08-30
**Blog**
* Published (again) the guide to [[Unlock Firefox Sidebar]] after reading a comment in [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/) asking for exactly that. I responded with a link to the article on [Dev.to](https://dev.to/semanticdata/unlock-the-sidebar-width-in-firefox-22p0). Originally, I removed the guide from my [blog](https://miguelpimentel.do) because I didn't think it fit with the content at the time.
* Overhauled Taxonomies (Categories and Tags) within the [blog](https://miguelpimentel.do). Created specific pages to format the titles, and define how the taxonomy pages are displayed/organized.
> [Link Of The Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant_Island)
## 2023-08-28
**Notes**
* Started work on a new repo, [obsidian-test-vault](https://github.com/semanticdata/obsidian-test-vault). Aiming to release an Obsidian start-up setup I like.
**Digital Garden**
* Compiled, and published a collection of [[Bookmarklets]].
* Cleaned up and published [[Inspirations]].
* Making the Garden more explorable by adding direct links to the [tags](tags/) page from the [_index](/).
* Playing with the Garden's desktop layout. Temporarily moved right sidebar components to the left sidebar. Undone shortly after, as it messed with the total calculated width of the page and its two sidebar widths.
> [Link Of The Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland_v_Iceland_Foods_Ltd)
## 2023-08-25
**Notes**
* Reformatted blog posts from [Prose Poetry](https://github.com/semanticdata/prose-poetry). Cleaned it up a bit.
* Updated MiguelPimentel.do entry in the [512KB Club](https://512kb.club/).
* Submitted Forgetful.dev into the [512KB Club](https://512kb.club/).
**Digital Garden**
* Started this new **Public Journal**.
* Upgraded the Garden backend from `Quartz v4-Alpha` to the official `Quartz v4` release.
> [Link Of The Day](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor)

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> [!quote]
>
> "Better done than perfect." Perfectionism is nothing but _fear_. Conquer it.
> [!quote]
>
> "Clarity requires thinking. Thinking requires writing."
> [!quote]
>
> "Action is not just the _effect_ of motivation, but also the _cause_ of motivation."
### Ajahn Chah
> "Dhamma is in your mind, not in the forest. You don't have to go and look anywhere else." — Ajahn Chah
### Alexander Solzhenitsyn
> "Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world, but in the process he loses his soul." — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
### Aristotle (unconfirmed)
> "The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge." — Aristotle
### Ashtavakra Gita
> "The wise man knows the Self,
> And he plays the game of life.
> But the fool lives in the world
> Like a beast of burden."
### Big Mouth
> "I only wrote that poem to test my printer!"
### Dean Bokhari
> "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
### Donny Osmond
> "I never smile unless I mean it."
### Dwight D. Eisenhower
> "I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent."
### G. K. Chesterton
> It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money. A man would be annoyed if he found himself in a mob of millionaires, all holding out their silk hats for a penny; or all shouting with one voice, "Give me money." Yet advertisement does really assault the eye very much as such a shout would assault the ear. "Budge's Boots are the Best" simply means "Give me money"; "Use Seraphic Soap" simply means "Give me money." It is a complete mistake to suppose that common people make our towns commonplace, with unsightly things like advertisements. Most of those whose wares are thus placarded everywhere are very wealthy gentlemen with coronets and country seats, men who are probably very particular about the artistic adornment of their own homes. They disfigure their towns in order to decorate their houses.
### Gustave Flaubert
> "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
### Jereld Hanson
> "Their level is always half a bubble off."
### John Siracusa
> "Don't chase your dreams! Humans are persistence predators. Follow your dreams at a sustainable pace until they get tired and lay down."
### u/kaidomac On ADHD
> "I wish I had the ability to instantly internalize this comic for neuro-typical people. "Just try harder" doesn't fully illuminate the ridiculous, daily, momentary inner struggle we fight ALL the time. And it also helps SO MUCH to explain it to ourselves this way!
>
> I was visiting an elderly family member the other day and they were like, "Well I definitely don't have ADHD, when I decide to focus on something, I can just do it!" I definitely had a momentary inner twinge that that's not the norm for me…simply deciding to do it & not having the "Mentos & Coke" effect of mental diffusion kick in to over-think the task & then feel all of the other things I have to do start swirling around, and then feel the emotional barriers of the weight of the task & the mental energy loss from the pre-requisite requirements like having to clean up or find stuff kick in…things that aren't on anybody's normal radar at all!
>
> It's a silly, nonsensical situation to deal with in life…I'm very grateful towards this artist for illustration the reality of the situation!"
### Pascal
> "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."
### Richard Feynman
> "Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention."
### Rumi
> "If I were the plaything of every thought, I would be a fool, not a wise man."
### Shield Anvil Itkovian, Memories of Ice, Malazan Series Book 3
> "We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance."
### Stephen Roberts
> "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
### Taylor Swift
> "Happiness and Confidence are the _prettiest_ things you can wear."
### Thomas Merton
> "We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us."
### Unknown
> "Saying yes frequently is an additive strategy. Saying no is a subtractive strategy. Keep saying no to a lot of things - the negative and unimportant ones - and once in awhile, you will be left with an idea which is so compelling that it would be a screaming no-brainer 'yes'."
> "I've been called worse, and I'm disappointed you couldn't think of something better."
> "This is not regular stupid. This is advanced stupid."
### Waymond Wang
> "When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naïve. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I've learned to survive through everything.
>
> I don't know. The only thing I do know… is that we have to be kind.
>
> Please. Be kind… especially when we don't know what's going on.
> I know you see yourself as a fighter. Well, I see myself as one too. This is how I fight."
### Yuval Noah Harari
> "Information is not truth." — Yuval Noah Harari
### XKCD Book
> [!quote] From XKCD Book
>
> **Throwing is hard.**
>
> "In order to deliver a baseball to a batter, a pitcher has to release the ball at exactly the right point in the throw. A timing error of half a millisecond in either direction is enough to cause the ball to miss the strike zone.
>
> To put that in perspective, it takes about five milliseconds for the fastest nerve impulse to travel the length of the arm. That means that when your arm is still rotating toward the correct position, the signal to release the ball is already at your wrist.
>
> In terms of timing, this is like a drummer dropping a drumstick from the tenth story and hitting a drum on the ground on the correct beat."

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### From Wikipedia
Rhizomatic learning is a variety of pedagogical practices informed by the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It takes it's name from the [rhizome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome).
Explored initially as an application of post-structural thought to education, it has more recently been identified as methodology for net-enabled education. In contrast to goal-directed and hierarchical theories of learning, it posits that learning is most effective when it allows participants to react to evolving circumstances, preserving lines of flight that allow a fluid and continually evolving redefinition of the task at hand. In such a structure, "the community is the curriculum", subverting traditional notions of instructional design where objectives pre-exist student involvement.
> [!quote] From _Deleuze, Education, and Becoming._
>
> "The underground sprout of a rhizome does not have a traditional root. There is a stem there, the oldest part of which dies off while simultaneously rejuvenating itself at the tip. The rhizome's renewal of itself proceeds autopoietically: the new relations generated via rhizomatic connections are not copies, but each and every time a new map, a cartography. A rhizome does not consist of units, but of dimensions and directions." — Inna Semetsky
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But the UCLA investigators developed a technique that prevents that corrosion and showed that, in its absence, lithium atoms assemble into a surprising shape—the rhombic dodecahedron, a 12-sided figure similar to the dice used in role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons.
"I've never seen a rhombic dodecahedron d12 before. They do exist after a quick search, but the much more common d12 is just a dodecahedron, with pentagonal faces."
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> This page was originally published on July 28, 2023. Its main goal was to aid in selecting SSD, and NVMe drives during a Micro Center sale.
## Storage Technologies
### 3D NAND
* The most basic of modern SSD technologies. Great for throwing on cheap systems, home servers, anything non-critical really.
* It is not recommended to host your Operating System on 3D NAND, or QLC.
### Quad Level Cell (QLC)
* QLC (Quad Level Cell) is cheaper to manufacture than TLC (Triple Level Cell).
* QLC is much slower and less durable to constant writing than TLC.
* It is not recommended to host your Operating System on 3D NAND, or QLC.
### Triple Level Cell (TLC)
* TLC is more reliable when compared to QLC.
* MLC is a Triple Level Cell based Samsung technology.
### Multi Level Cell (MLC)
* MLC is a Triple Level Cell based Samsung technology.
Let's break it down:
1. MLC V-NAND (Best)
2. V-NAND (TLC Equiv.)
3. TLC (V-NAND Equiv.)
4. QLC (Cheap, less reliable)
5. 3D NAND (Basic)
## How Are SSDs Scored
### Storage
* 1 point per GB
* Less accurate the bigger the SSD
* 3 TB and higher drives scale exp/log instead of linearly.
### Price
Based on price per $1.
Selected $0.10 as the baseline after averaging some calculations.
* 1 point for every $0.01 / GB below $0.10
### Technology Coefficient
* 3D NAND Coefficient = 0.5 (Big Penalty)
* QLC Coefficient = 0.75 (Small Penalty)
* TLC Coefficient = 1.0 (No Change)
* MLC V-NAND coefficient = 1.25 (Small Advantage)
## NVMe M.2 2280 M Key
| Brand | Storage | Price | Notes |
| ------------ |:-------:|:-----:| ---------- |
| 970 EVO Plus | 500 GB | $35 | MLC V-NAND |
| 970 EVO Plus | 2 TB | $100 | MLC V-NAND |
| 970 EVO Plus | 1 TB | $50 | V-NAND |
| 980 | 1 TB | $50 | MLC V-NAND |
| 980 Pro | 2 TB | $120 | MLC V-NAND |
| 980 Pro | 1 TB | $70 | V-NAND |
| 990 PRO | 1 TB | $80 | MLC V-NAND |
| Crucial P3 | 1 TB | $40 | 3D NAND |
| Inland | 500 GB | $23 | QLC |
| Inland | 1 TB | $40 | QLC |
| Inland | 2 TB | $70 | QLC |
| Performance | 1 TB | $55 | TLC |
| Prime | 500 GB | $30 | TLC |
| Prime | 1 TB | $50 | TLC |
## SSD
| Brand | Storage | Price | Notes |
| ------------ |:-------:|:-----:| ---------- |
| Inland | 1 TB | $50 | TLC |
| Inland | 512 GB | $25 | TLC |
| Platinum | 2 TB | $80 | TLC |
| Platinum | 1 TB | $43 | TLC |
| Professional | 256 GB | $20 | 3D NAND |
| Professional | 125 GB | $15 | TLC |
| 870 EVO | 1 TB | $50 | MLC V-NAND |
| 870 EVO | 4 TB | $220 | MLC V-NAND |
| 870 EVO | 500 GB | $40 | MLC V-NAND |
| 870 QVO | 1 TB | $70 | QLC V-NAND |
## Final Scores
### NVMe
| NVMe | $ / GB | 1pt per $0.01 | 1 per GB | Coefficient | Score |
| ------------------------ |:------:|:-------------:|:--------:|:-----------:|:-----:|
| 970 500 GB $35 MLC | 0.070 | 3.00 | 500 | 1.25 | 629 |
| 970 2 TB $100 MLC | 0.050 | 5.00 | 2000 | 1.25 | 2506 |
| 970 1 TB $100 MLC | 0.103 | 0.00 | 1000 | 1.25 | 1250 |
| 980 1 TB $50 V | 0.050 | 5.00 | 1000 | 1 | 1005 |
| 980P 2 TB $120 MLC | 0.060 | 4.00 | 2000 | 1.25 | 2505 |
| 980P 1 TB $70 V | 0.070 | 3.00 | 1000 | 1 | 1003 |
| 990P 1 TB $80 MLC | 0.080 | 2.00 | 1000 | 1.25 | 1253 |
| Crucial 1 TB $40 3D | 0.040 | 6.00 | 1000 | 0.5 | 503 |
| Inland 500 GB $23 QLC | 0.046 | 5.40 | 500 | 0.75 | 379 |
| Inland 1 TB $40 QLC | 0.040 | 6.00 | 1000 | 0.75 | 755 |
| Inland 2 TB $70 QLC | 0.035 | 6.50 | 2000 | 0.75 | 1505 |
| Performance 1 TB $55 TLC | 0.055 | 4.50 | 1000 | 1 | 1005 |
| Prime 500 GB $30 TLC | 0.060 | 4.00 | 500 | 1 | 504 |
| Prime 1 TB $50 TLC | 0.050 | 5.00 | 1000 | 1 | 1005 |
_Higher is better._
### SSD
| SSD | $ / GB | 1 per cent | 1 per GB | Coefficient | Score |
| ------------------------- |:------:|:----------:|:--------:|:-----------:|:-----:|
| Inland 1TB $50 TLC | 0.050 | 5 | 1000 | 1 | 1005 |
| Inland 512GB $25 TLC | 0.049 | 5.1 | 512 | 1 | 517 |
| Platinum 2TB $80 TLC | 0.040 | 6 | 2000 | 1 | 2006 |
| Platinum 1TB $43 TLC | 0.043 | 5.7 | 1000 | 1 | 1006 |
| Professional 256GB $20 3D | 0.078 | 2.2 | 256 | 0.5 | 129 |
| Professional 125GB $15 3D | 0.120 | 0 | 125 | 0.5 | 63 |
| 870 EVO 1TB $50 MLC | 0.050 | 5 | 1000 | 1.25 | 1256 |
| 870 EVO 4TB $220 MLC | 0.055 | 4.5 | 4000 | 1.25 | 5006 |
| 870 EVO 500GB $40 MLC | 0.020 | 8 | 500 | 1.25 | 635 |
| 870 QVO 1TB $70 QLC | 0.070 | 3 | 1000 | 0.75 | 753 |
_Higher is better._
## Conclusions
* Cheap system? Get **any** of these.
* Secondary drive? Get any **QLC** or better.
* OS Drive? Get any **TLC** or better.
* Extra cash? Premium for reliability? Get any **Samsung** from the list.

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In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. Sans-serif typefaces tend to have less stroke width variation than serif typefaces. They are often used to convey simplicity and modernity or minimalism.
```css
font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Nimbus Sans L", Roboto, Noto, "Segoe UI", Arial, Helvetica, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;
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A scope of work or SOW, is a descriptive document or working agreement that contains all information regarding the size of a project, the goals a team should accomplish by the end of the project and steps required to complete the project.
You might create an SOW when multiple parties are working together on the project and there are certain requirements to meet. This document usually includes of an introduction, objective overview, an outline of the expected work and tasks, schedule for deliverables, adoption plan and conclusion or sign off.
Usually, a scope of work has these standard components:
* Project goals: This includes all goals intended for the team to reach as the project progresses, as well as when it completes.
* Timeline: This includes the exact timeframe for the project's beginning and end, including when specific tasks should start and complete.
* Expected results: This includes specific outcomes intended to take place by the completion of the project.
* Deliverables: This includes the exact product or products the project should deliver by its completion.
* Conditions: This includes any stipulations the team should abide by or work under or requirements to meet.
* Financial information: This includes accounting data, such as how much the project may cost to complete, how much each team member is going to earn and how and when they're going to be paid.
* Management: This includes information regarding administrative details, such as who's responsible for approving financial decisions or who can agree to specific terms.

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To _scry_ is to see or predict the future by means of a crystal ball. It is also the ability to look at the top cards of your deck and rearrange them in Magic the Gathering. This note was inspired by [Cortex](https://www.relay.fm/cortex) [Episode 142](https://www.relay.fm/cortex/142) where Myke and Grey discuss scrying your task lists.
In terms of organization, scrying your task list allows you to determine what is the order of 2 to 5 things that _need_ to happen.
Your job is not to get through all the to-do items, but to arrange them in the _correct order_. Sometimes you need to put some things at the bottom of the list. I draw the line when I can't finish the work day until these tasks are _done_.
Don't confuse mission-critical items and time saving tasks. Mission-critical Items **NEED** to be done today. Optionally, anything that will save time the next day **SHOULD** be done the day prior.
You are _probably_ doing life wrong if you consistently get to the bottom of your to-do list. Let me elaborate, if your to-do list is empty, something about your life _is_ wrong. You are not being ambitious enough.
This note was inspired by [Cortex](https://www.relay.fm/cortex) [Episode 142](https://www.relay.fm/cortex/142) on scrying your task lists.
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In typography, a serif (/ˈsɛrɪf/) is a small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol within a particular font or family of fonts.
```css
font-family: Constantia, "Lucida Bright", Lucidabright, "Lucida Serif", Lucida, "DejaVu Serif", "Bitstream Vera Serif", "Liberation Serif", Georgia, serif;
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1. Weak legs and glutes
2. Weight gain
3. Tight hips and bad back
4. Anxiety and depression
5. Cancer risk
6. Heart disease
7. Diabetes Risk
8. Varicose Veins
9. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
10. Stiff shoulders and neck

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Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do. _By Dan Harmon_
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## Story Structure 101: Super Basic Shit
1. Draw a circle and divide it in half vertically.
2. Divide the circle again horizontally.
3. Starting from the 12 o clock position and going clockwise, number the 4 points where the lines cross the circle: 1, 3, 5 and 7.
4. Number the quarter-sections themselves 2, 4, 6 and 8.
Here we go, down and dirty:
* A character is in a zone of comfort
* But they want something
* They enter an unfamiliar situation
* Adapt to it
* Get what they wanted
* Pay a heavy price for it
* Then return to their familiar situation
* Having changed
Start thinking of as many of your favorite movies as you can, and see if they apply to this pattern. Now think of your favorite party anecdotes, your most vivid dreams, fairy tales, and listen to a popular song (the music, not necessarily the lyrics). Get used to the idea that stories follow that pattern of descent and return, diving and emerging. Demystify it. See it everywhere. Realize that it's hardwired into your nervous system, and trust that in a vacuum, raised by wolves, your stories would follow this pattern.
I will talk in greater detail about this pattern in subsequent tutorials.
## Story Structure 102: Pure, Boring Theory
This isn't a tutorial. It's just a bunch of theory. The pragmatic or impatient among you can skip this one.
Why this ritual of descent and return? Why does a story have to contain certain elements, in a certain order, before the audience will even recognize it as a story?
Because our society, each human mind within it and all of life itself has a rhythm, and when you play in that rhythm, it resonates.
### The Rhythm of Biology
The universe around us is dying, moving from a state of high energy to low. On Earth, however, things tend to move in a contrary direction. Eggs turn into chickens. People turn into more people. Flesh heals, stupid becomes smarter, and the planet, once cold and empty, is now so full of life that you can't leave bread on the counter. How has life managed to cheat a dying universe like this?
Through death.
This planetwide creature known as "Life on Earth" has been able to grow and thrive through an evolutionary arms race between the various parts of itself. The more advanced parts of life EAT the less advanced parts, thereby becoming more plentiful until a more advanced part consumes it. This causes all life to advance and spread. The ongoing battle between eaters and eaten is responsible for that state-of-the-art biological weapon you call a brain, and it may even lead, one day, to humans flinging themselves like spores, to dead planets and bringing those planets to life.
To you and me, consciously, death may be a bummer, but to Mother Gaia, to life itself, unconsciously, it is absolutely essential50% of how shit gets done.
What do I mean by consciously and unconsciously?
### The Rhythm of Psychology
Your mind is a home, with an upstairs and a downstairs.
Upstairs, in your consciousness, things are well-lit and regularly swept. Friends visit. Scrabble is played, hot cocoa is brewing. It is a pleasant, familiar place.
Downstairs, it is older, darker and much, much freakier. We call this basement the unconscious mind.
The unconscious is exactly what it sounds like: It's the stuff you don't, won't and/or can't think about. According to Freud, there are dirty pictures of your mother down there. According to Jung, there are pipes, wires, even tunnels down there that connect your home to others. And even though it contains life-sustaining energies (like the fuse box and water heater), it's a primitive, stinky, scary place and it's no wonder that, given the choice, we don't hang out down there.
However, your pleasure, your sanity and even your life depend on occasional round trips. You've got to change the fuses, grab the Christmas ornaments, clean the litter box. To the extent that we keep the basement door sealed, the entire home becomes unstable. The creatures downstairs get louder and the guy upstairs (your ego) tries to cover the noise with neurotic behavior. For some, eventually, the basement door can come right off its hinges and the slimy, primal denizens of the deep can become Scrabble partners. You might call this a nervous breakdown or psychotic break, it doesn't matter. The point is: Occasional ventures by the ego into the unconscious, through therapy, meditation, confession, sex, violence, or a good story, keep the consciousness in working order.
This is the rhythm of psychology: Conscious-unconscious-conscious-unconscious-etc.
### The Rhythm of Society
Societies are basically macrocosms (big versions) of people, only instead of "consciousness," a society's upstairs is "order," and its basement is "chaos."
Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.
In their most dramatic, revolutionary form, these people are called heroes, but every day, society is replenished by millions of people diving into darkness and emerging with something new (or forgotten): scientists, painters, teachers, dancers, actors, priests, athletes, architects and most importantly, me, Dan Harmon.
Societies are macrocosms of people in another way: Eventually, they die. There is competition between different societies. The losers are eaten and the winners reproduce.
Like people, societies become neurotic and can eventually break down when they make the mistake of thinking the downstairs shouldn't exist. America is a terrific example of this, as our fear of the unknown continues to create more unknowns and more fear. It's now punishable by bombing to have a problem with America's bombing policy. In a human being, the equivalent would be diagnosable as symptomatic. Our basement is brimming with creepy crawlies, the pressure on the door is building. There has never been a bigger need for heroes and they have never been in such scarcity.
One of two things is going to happen. Someone's going to open that door and go down there, or that door is going fly off its hinges. Either way, social evolution will not be cheated of its rhythm and it's going to get sloppy. We all know it. We all walk around with that instinctive understanding in our unconscious minds.
The rhythm of society: Order-chaos-order-chaos-etc.
#### Resonance
Now you understand that all life, including the human mind and the communities we create, marches to the same, very specific beat. If your story also marches to this beatwhether your story is the great American novel or a fart jokeit will resonate. It will send your audience's ego on a brief trip to the unconscious and back. Your audience has an instinctive taste for that, and they're going to say "yum."
We'll get back to the nuts and bolts in the next one, elaborating greatly on the circular model and applying it to the 5 minute Channel 101 pilot.
## Story Structure 103: Let's Simplify Before Moving On
Here are those steps from tutorial 101 again, boiled down to the barest minimum I can manage while still speaking English:
When you
have a need,
you go somewhere,
search for it,
find it,
take it,
then return
and change things.
Less focus on English, more on importance:
You
Need
Go
Search
Find
Take
Return
CHANGE
Sounds like a caveman giving you an order. That's what it is. Behind (and beneath) your culture creating forebrain, there is an older, simpler monkey brain with a lot less to say and a much louder voice. One of the few things it's telling you, over and over again, is that you need to go search, find, take and return with change. Why? Because that is how the human animal has kept from going extinct, it's how human societies keep from collapsing and how you keep from walking into McDonald's with a machine gun.
If you were hired to write a script for a race of super-evolved spiders, you might find that they prefer a more linear model. In the spider version of Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack might build his own beanstalk, find a sandwich at the top of it, eat some and save some for later. The End. That's not really inspiring to us. We like us some circles. We like big ones, we like little ones, and given the choice, we'll take a shitty one over a lack of one, but, unless you're writing for some other species, it will pay for you to keep things fairly round.
Jack goes up the beanstalk, Jack finds some cool shit, Jack steals it, runs back down, and gives it to his Mom.
We need go searchWe need get fire, we need good woman, we need land moonbut most importantly, we need RETURN and we need CHANGE, because we are a community, and if our heroes just climbed beanstalks and never came down, we wouldn't have survived our first ice age.
I know you still don't believe this has anything to do with your five minute episode of "Laser Fart." Hang in there. The goods are next.
## Story Structure 104: The Juicy Details
Okay, here's that part where the self appointed guru tells you exactly what needs to happen and when.
I hope I've made it clear to you before I do that that the REAL structure of any good story is simply circular - a descent into the unknown and eventual return - and that any specific descriptions of that process are specific to you and your story.
Here is my detailed description of the steps on the circle. I'm going to get really specific, and I'm not going to bother saying, "there are some exceptions to this" over and over. There are some exceptions to everything, but that's called style, not structure.
### 1. "You." - Establish a Protagonist
The audience is floating freely, like a ghost, until you give them a place to land.
This free floating effect can be exploited for a while - closing in on the planet Earth; panning across a dirty shed. Who are we going to be? But sooner or later, we need to be someone, because if we are not inside a character, then we are not inside the story.
How do you put the audience into a character? Easy. Show one. You'd have to go out of your way to keep the audience from imprinting on them. It could be a raccoon, a homeless man or the President. Just fade in on them and we are them until we have a better choice.
If there are choices, the audience picks someone to whom they relate. When in doubt, they follow their pity. Fade in on a raccoon being chased by a bear, we are the raccoon. Fade in on a room full of ambassadors. The President walks in and trips on the carpet. We are the President. When you feel sorry for someone, you're using the same part of your brain you use to identify with them.
Lots of modern stories bounce us from character to character in the beginning until we finally settle in some comfortable shoes. The bouncing can be effective, but if it's going on for more than 25% of your total story, you're going to lose the audience. Like anything adhesive, our sense of identity weakens a little every time it's switched or tested. The longer it's been stuck on something, the more jarring it's going to be to yank it away and stick it on someone else.
I wouldn't fuck around if I were you. The easiest thing to do is fade in on a character that always does what the audience would do. He can be an assassin, he can be a raccoon, he can be a parasite living in the racoon's liver, but have him do what the audience might do if they were in the same situation. In Die Hard, we fade in on John McClaine, a passenger on an airplane who doesn't like to fly.
### 2. "Need" - Something Ain't Quite Right
And now the roller coaster car heads up the first hill. Click, click, click….
This is where we demonstrate that something is off balance in the universe, no matter how large or small that universe is. If this is a story about a war between Earth and Mars, this is a good time to show those Martian ships heading toward our peaceful planet. On the other hand, if this is a romantic comedy, maybe our heroine is at dinner, on a bad blind date.
We're being presented with the idea that things aren't perfect. They could be better. This is where a character might wonder out loud, or with facial expressions, why he can't be cooler, or richer, or faster, or a better lover. This wish will be granted in ways that character couldn't have expected.
It's also where a more literal, exterior "Call to adventure" could come in, at the hands of a mysterious messenger, explaining to a dry cleaner that he has been drafted by the CIA.
Frequently, the protagonist "refuses the call." He doesn't want to go to step 3. He's happy as a dry cleaner (at least he thinks he is). The "refusal of the call" is not a necessary ingredient, it's just another oft-used trick to keep us buckled into an identity. We're all scared of change.
Remember: Calls to adventure don't have to come from an actual messenger and wishes don't have to be made out loud.
Fade in on a meek-looking man driving a car. It's raining. Boom. Flat tire. He struggles to keep the car from ditching. He pulls it to the side of the road and stops. He's got fear on his face. He looks out his car window at the pounding rain…
Or to continue with Die Hard: We realize now that John's marriage is rocky. His wife got a nice job in L.A. and he refused to come here with her. Now he's visiting for Christmas. She's using her maiden name in the corporate directory. They're bickering. Things are not right, and if you could read the protagonist's mind, you might find him wishing there was something he could do to save his marriage…
### 3. "Go" - Crossing the Threshold
What's your story about? If it's about a woman running from a killer cyborg, then up until now, she has not been running from a killer cyborg. Now she's gonna start. If your story is about an infatuation, this might be the point where our male hero first lays eyes on the object of his desire. Then again, if our protagonist is the object of a dangerous obsession, the infatuation could have been step 2 and this could be the point where the guy says something really, really creepy to her in the office hall. If it's a coming of age story, this could be a first kiss or the discovery of an armpit hair. If it's a slasher film, this is the first kill, or the discovery of a corpse.
The key is, figure out what your "movie poster" is. What would you advertise to people if you wanted them to come listen to your story? A killer shark? Outer space? The Mafia? True love? Everything in grey on that circle, the bottom half, is a "special world" where that movie poster starts being delivered, and everything above this line is the "ordinary world." Step 1, you are the sheriff of a small town. Step 2, strange bites on a murder victim's body. Step 3, holy shit, it's a werewolf.
Remember from tutorial 102 that what's really happening here is a journey into our own unconscious mind, where we can get our shit worked out. A child wakes up and now he's Tom Hanks. His wish to be "big" has been granted. Terrorists attack the Christmas party, and now John McClaine has his chance to literally save his rocky marriage. Neo wakes up in a vat of goo in a world ruled by machines. His ordinary world desire to be a hacker, to fight the system, is going to be put to the test. A suicidal boy starts seeing a therapist. We're going to find out why he tried to kill himself.
It doesn't matter how small or large the scope of your story is, what matters is the amount of contrast between these worlds. In our story about the man changing his tire in the rain, up until now, he wasn't changing a tire. He was inside a dry car. Now, he opens his car door and steps into the pouring rain. The adventure, regardless of its size or subtlety, has begun.
### 4. "Search" - The Road of Trials
Christopher Vogler calls this phase of a feature script "friends, enemies and allies." Hack producers call it the "training phase." I prefer to stick with Joseph Campbell's title, "The Road of Trials," because it's less specific. I've seen too many movies where our time is wasted watching a hero literally "train" in a forest clearing because someone got the idea it was a necessary ingredient. The point of this part of the circle is, our protagonist has been thrown into the water and now it's sink or swim.
In Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell actually evokes the image of a digestive tract, breaking the hero down, divesting him of neuroses, stripping him of fear and desire. There's no room for bullshit in the unconscious basement. Asthma inhalers, eyeglasses, credit cards, fratty boyfriends, promotions, toupees and cell phones can't save you here. The purpose here has become refreshingly - and frighteningly - simple.
In Romancing the Stone, Michael Douglas cuts the heels off of Kathleen Turner's expensive shoes with a machete. Then he throws her suitcase off a cliff. If she's going to continue to survive in this jungle, she literally needs to drop her excess baggage and lose the fancy pants.
In Die Hard, John McClaine is advised by a terrorist to whom he earlier showed mercy: "The next time you have a chance to kill someone, don't hesitate." John shoots him several times and thanks his corpse for the advice. The cop has begun to fall away, piece by piece, revealing his inner cowboy.
The man in the pouring rain opens his trunk, revealing a pile of laundry and fast food garbage. He tries moving it around, but finally his frustration takes over and he begins tossing things over his shoulder, emptying the contents of his trunk on the side of the road.
We are headed for the deepest level of the unconscious mind, and we cannot reach it encumbered by all that crap we used to think was important.
### 5. "Find" - Meeting with the Goddess
The road of trial's job is to prepare your protagonist for this meeting. Like a single sperm cell arriving at the egg, your hero-in-the-making just found what they were looking for, even if it's not quite what they knew they were looking for.
I'm using the phrase "meeting with the goddess" because Joseph Campbell thought about these things longer and harder than me. Syd Field calls this "the mid point." Catchy. Robert McKee probably calls it "the nexus of inclination" or something. Unless I'm mistaken, African Americans call it Kwanza.
Whatever you call it, this is a very, very special pivot point. If you look at the circle, you see I've placed the goddess at the very bottom, right in the center. Imagine your protagonist began at the top and has tumbled all the way down here. This is where the universe's natural tendency to pull your protagonist downward has done its job, and for X amount of time, we experience weightlessness. Anything goes down here. This is a time for major revelations, and total vulnerability. If you're writing a plot-twisty thriller, twist here and twist hard.
Twist or no, this is also another threshold, in that everything past this point will take a different direction (namely UPWARD), but note that one is not dragged kicking and screaming through these curtains. One hovers here. One will make a choice, then ascend.
Imagine that you're standing on a pier (1). You see a glimmer through the water and you wonder what it is (2). While leaning to see, you fall off the pier (3). You sink down, deeper and deeper (4) until you come to the floor of the lake and see what was catching the sun's rays.
(5) It's a human skull.
(5) It's a necklace.
(5) It's a tiny, ancient space craft.
(5) It's a quarter. Net worth: 25 cents.
It could be anything, good or bad. A lot of times, it's a healthy dose of both. In a hard-boiled detective story, or a James Bond adventure, this could be a more literal, intimate "meeting," if you know what I mean, with a powerful, mysterious female character. This is a great time for sex or making out with the hot chick, especially if your protagonist has been kung-fuing everybody he meets for the past half hour (or, in Channel 101's case, for the past 60 seconds).
But the goddess doesn't have to be a femme fatale or an angelic damsel. In an all-male or all-female play that takes place around a poker table, the "goddess" could be a character's confession that they lost their job. The goddess can be a gesture, an idea, a gun, a diamond, a destination, or just a moment's freedom from that monster that won't stop chasing you.
In Die Hard, John McClaine, having run over broken glass, is sitting in a bathroom, soaking his bloody feet in the sink. It is at this moment that he finally realizes the true extent of his love for his wife, and what he's been doing wrong in their marriage. He (1) has been too stubborn (2). He uses his walkie talkie, acquired in step (4), to give a message to his wife through his benevolent, happily married, gun-shy counterpart: "She's heard me say 'I love you' a thousand times…but she's never heard me say I'm sorry."
It's not enough to hack and slash your way through symbol after neurotic symbol. The hacking and slashing was a process, that process is over, if only temporarily, and we have reached a second major turn.
The definition of "major" being, of course, in relation to your circle's diameter. Our stranded, rain soaked driver has finished emptying the contents of his trunk on the side of the road. He sees the spare tire and he lets out a very slight, very fast sound of relief. That's all. This is a story about a man changing a tire. That's all the goddess we need.
You might have noticed that, just as (3), the crossing of the threshold, is the opposite of (7) the return, (5), the meeting with the goddess, is the opposite of (1), the protagonist's zone of comfort. Think of (1) as being the arms of mother, however dysfunctional she might be. (5) is a new form of mother, an unconscious version, and there is often a temptation to stay right here. Like at that elf guy's house in Lord of the Rings.
This is very, very important. Movement beyond (5) becomes the protagonist's volition. The water where the sirens sang their seductive song was littered with wrecked ships. The goddess can be the undoing, or the permanent pacification, of non-heroes. It's all fine and well for James Bond to dip his noodle, but he can't lay around here all day. Electropussy might kill him with her flamethrowing lipstick or something.
In (1), we were in the arms of the mother, but were removed by (2), the pull of the father. The need, the longing, the lack of completion, either coming from within or without, drew us to (3) and we were pulled across a threshold into the unknown. We were then transformed (4) into (5), the opposite of a mama's boy: A lady's man.
To reiterate, this doesn't only apply to stories about men having sex. If this is a story of a poor little girl (1) who dreamt of being rich (2) and got adopted by a millionaire (3), having become accustomed to her new lifestyle, (4), she might now be something of a fancy pants (5). Show it with a defineable moment. This might be a good point for her to drive by the orphanage in her limousine.
### 6. "Take" - Meet Your Maker
As you might expect with a circular model like this, there is a lot of symmetry going on, and on the journey back upward, we're going to be doing a lot of referencing to the journey downward.
Just as (1) and (5) are very maternal, feminine, vulnerable moments, (2) and (6) are very paternal, masculine, active moments, regardless of the protagonist's gender.
Think about what really happened at (2). Things were "fine" at (1) but they just weren't quite good enough. That's how we got into this whole mess in the first place.
In Real Genius (I'm really drawing on the classics, now), the dorky kid (1) is recruited for a special college program that's working on a powerful laser (2). He becomes the roommate of a wayward genius whose major is how-to-parrrrrtay (3). Party man teaches Dork how to relax while Dork teaches party man how to focus (4) and as a result, they are able to perfect their laser (5) and get their prestigious accolades. But now a second, more honest call to adventure from an uber-nerd who lives in the steam tunnels: What is that laser for? Why did they have to build it to certain specifications? What did that creepy, popcorn-hating professor have in mind? Sure, they could stay here in this pizza parlor, nursing at the tit of their own prosperity. But then again, they didn't get this far by being irresponsible. It's time to start heading back up to the real world and making things right, Genius style.
There are major, major consequences to that decision. In fact, in a good action movie, this is where our guy simply gets his ass kicked. Robocop, armed with Clarence Boddiker's confession (5), marches into the office of Dick Jones, CEO of the company that built him. He tries to arrest the man that owns him, only to discover that he can't. It's against his programming. Loveable, human Alex Murphy (2) might have been able to pull this off, but bullet-proof, factory-made Robocop can't. Ironic, considering that Murphy's unconscious wish (2) was to be a bulletproof hero ("TJ Laser"). Between his purely mechanical brother, ED-209, and his purely human brothers, the misinformed police, being sicked on him, Robocop barely makes it out of the father's castle in one piece.
Lest you think moments like this are reserved for action films, let's look at a nearly identical scene, which happens to be in Network, which may be the best written film ever made. At this stage of that story, Howard Beale, news anchor turned prophet, is ushered into a board room, where he comes face to face with his creator: CEO of the company that owns the network, Arthur Jensen (played by Ned Beatty). In one of the best written, best performed monologues of the 20th century, Jensen reveals to Beale that capitalism is God, God is capitalism, and having fucked with God, Beale must now atone.
No robots, no explosions, same structure.
That's because this half of the circle has its own road of trials - the road back up. The one down prepares you for the bed of the goddess and the one up prepares you to rejoin the ordinary world.
Having made his peace (5) regarding his marriage, John McClaine now wonders why Hans Gruber, head terrorist, was so desperate for those detonators. He goes back to the roof and discovers that the entire upper portion of the skyscraper is wired to blow. With this realization comes the consequence (6): The giant blonde terrorist - the ED-209 to McClaine's Robocopdescends on him and the two will now battle to the death. Dispatching Blondie is only the first step. The trials on this road come fast and furious. By the time the protagonist gets to (7), the last remaining shreds of his ego will have disappeared and he will have accomplished what Campbell calls the "Atonement with the Father-" The father being this completely non-personal, no-bullshit universe, usually embodied, in action films, by the bad guy (who is often heard to say, in these more arch films, "Nothing personal. Just business.")
In a love story, this is the part where they break up. Now comes the stubble and the dirty dishes and the closed shades. The deep, deep, suicidal depression. The boring relationship with the supposedly better partner. And finally, the realization that nothing was ever more important than him or her.
When you realize that something is important, really important, to the point where it's more important than YOU, you gain full control over your destiny. In the first half of the circle, you were reacting to the forces of the universe, adapting, changing, seeking. Now you have BECOME the universe. You have become that which makes things happen. You have become a living God.
Depending on the scope of your story, a "living God" might be a guy that can finish changing a tire in the rain. Or, in the case of Die Hard, it might be a guy that can appear on the roof, dispatch terrorists with ease and herd 50 hostages to safety while dodging gunfire from an FBI helicopter.
### 7. "Return" - Bringing It Home
For some characters, this is as easy as hugging the scarecrow goodbye and waking up. For others, this is where the extraction team finally shows up and pulls them outwhat Campbell calls "Rescue from Without." In an anecdote about having to change a flat tire in the rain, this could be the character getting back into his car.
For others, not so easy, which is why Campbell also talks about "The Magic Flight."
The denizens of the deep can't have people sauntering out of the basement any more than the people upstairs wanted you going down there in the first place. The natives of the conscious and unconscious worlds justify their actions however they want, but in the grand scheme, their goal is to keep the two worlds separate, which includes keeping people from seeing one and living to tell about it.
This is a great place for a car chase. Or, in a love story, having realized what's important, the hero bursts out of his apartment onto the sidewalk. His lover's airplane leaves for Antartica in TEN MINUTES! John McClaine, who at step (1) was afraid of flying, now wraps a fire hose around his waist and leaps off an exploding building, then shoots a giant window so he can kick through it with his bloody feet.
Strangely enough, he will soon find himself back in the same room where the Christmas party was being held.
### 8. "Change" - Master of Both Worlds
In an action film, you're guaranteed a showdown here. In a courtroom drama, here comes the disruptive, sky-punching cross examination that leaves the murderer in a tearful confession. In a love story, the man runs across the tarmac, stops the taxiing airplane, gets on board and says to his lover:
"When I first met you, I thought you were perfect. And then I got used to you being perfect, and everything was perfect, but then I found out you weren't perfect, and we broke up, and then I realized, I'm not perfect, either. Nobody's perfect, and I don't want a perfect person, I just want you. Let's move in together. I'll sleep on the wet spot. You can keep your cat, I'll take allergy medicine. And when you're a hundred years old, I'll clean the shit out of your diaper."
And then, of course, the old woman and/or large black man seated next to the love interest looks at her and says, "Well, what are you waiting for? Go to him!"
Why this strange reaction from old women and large black men? Because the protagonist, on whatever scale, is now a world-altering ninja. They have been to the strange place, they have adapted to it, they have discovered true power and now they are back where they started, forever changed and forever capable of creating change. In a love story, they are able to love. In a Kung Fu story, they're able to Kung all of the Fu. In a slasher film, they can now slash the slasher.
One really neat trick is to remind the audience that the reason the protagonist is capable of such behavior is because of what happened down below. When in doubt, look at the opposite side of the circle. Surprise, surprise, the opposite of (8) is (4), the road of trials, where the hero was getting his shit together. Remember that zippo the bum gave him? It blocked the bullet! It's hack, but it's hack because it's worked a thousand times. Grab it, deconstruct it, create your own version. You didn't seem to have a problem with that formula when the stuttering guy (4) recited a perfect monologue (8) in Shakespeare in Love. It's all the same. Remember that tribe of crazy, comic relief Indians that we befriended at (4) by kicking their biggest wrestler in the nuts? It is now, at (8), as we are nearly beaten by the bad guy, that those crazy sons of bitches ride over the hill and save us. Why is this not Deus Ex Machina? Because we earned it (4).
Everyone thinks the Matrix was successful because of new, American special effects combined with old Hong Kong bootleg style. Those things didn't hurt, but for an example of how well they deliver on their own, watch the fucking sequel. Admit it, it stinks. The writers of the Matrix say in interviews that they assembled The Matrix from elements of their favorite films. They tried to make the movie that they always wanted to see. Ta da. They surrendered to their instincts, to what they knew worked, and as a result, they did what humans do instinctively: They told an instinctively satisfying story about an everyday guy (1) that gets a weird call (2) and, upon following it, realizes that reality was an illusion (3). He learns the ropes (4), talks to the oracle (5), loses his mentor (6), goes back (7) and saves the fucking day (8). It's not perfect, especially in the third act, but try identifying the steps in Matrix Reloaded. Get a slide rule. And a cup of coffee. It's going to be a long, hard slog.
In Die Hard, having killed every terrorist - each time dropping more and more neurotic luggage, McClaine now stands, unarmed, nearly naked, before his wife. There's only one problem. Hans Gruber, the unconscious shadow version of John (is "Hans" German for "John?"), is also here, having "followed" him up to the ordinary world, as shadows are prone to do. He's got a gun to her head. And, he's got one more goon - you know, the guy that played "Nick the Dick" in Bachelor Party (who would've thought he'd last the longest?)
Sometimes Boss Hog doesn't stop at the county line. Sometimes the alien sneaks aboard your escape pod, or the T-Rex starts walking through people's back yards. This is especially liable to happen in more action-oriented life and death stories, where the crossing of the return threshold was down and dirty. Things can get sloppy. You can drag a little more chaos than you wanted through the portal. Worlds can collide. Like Ullyses, coming home to find 50 guys trying to bang his wife, it's time to clean house.
Fortunately, the real John has spent his storytime learning new behaviors, while Shadow John has spent his storytime attempting to cling to his crumbling ego. Real John has learned, in particular, that sometimes your best offense is surrender. He came around the corner with his otherworldly submachine gun, and was ordered to drop it. Now Shadow John, at (8) thinks he has what was so desperately necessary to Real John at (1): Control. He has John's wife as an unwilling hostage. And, of course, like a good villain, Hans would never dream of throwing away the opportunity to gloat as he levels his gun on John.
But John's SMG was empty. He had placed his last two bullets from the unconscious world back into his old, conscious, New York penis pistol, the one he had on the plane, the one that is now taped to his back with ..(blush) Christmas tape. Okay, look, it's a pretty good script up until that point. Anyways, John pulls the concealed gun, shoots Shadow John through his black, uncompromising, German heart, shoots Nick the Dick in the forehead, and, as his wife and Hans nearly both tumble through the broken window, John is able to release his love once and for all by releasing the clasp on the Rolex given to her by an L.A. cokehead yuppy. The watch, and Hans, tumble through the air, the principal from Breakfast Club says "I hope that's not a hostage," and so concludes the 20th century's greatest action film.
Well, not quite. The proper, jive talking, submissive, comic relief black chaueffer has to punch out the improper, hyperintelligent, uppity black computer hacker, thereby making slavery more heroic than terrorism and restoring security to caucasian society. Also, the child-murdering, gun-shy L.A. cop has to blow away the freshly resurrected Blonde terrorist, reacquainting himself with the fact that sometimes, killing the right type of person can be a life affirming act.
Meanwhile, our tire-changing hero starts his car and heads home, with a story to tell his wife.
A good story? Worthy of TV or movies? Of course not. But the tire-changing story uses the barest minimums. Contrast it with one in which, after the man pulls his car to the side of the road, a werewolf opens the door and eats him. The end. Now, you have one sequence with a werewolf in it and one without. Which tells a story? It doesn't matter how cool you think werewolves are, you know the answer instinctively.
You know all of this instinctively. You are a storyteller. You were born that way.
## Story Structure 105: How TV is Different
Television really is no different, except in one, very practical sense:
A feature film's job is to send you out of the theater on a high in 90 minutes. Television's job is to keep you glued to the television for your entire life.
This does not entail making stories any less circular (TV circles are so circular they're sometimes irritatingly predictable). It just means that the focus of step (8) is less riling-things-up and more getting-things-back-to-where-they-started.
Movies can afford to blow up the Death Star at the end. In a sitcom version of Star Wars, however, the protagonist would be a desk clerk working in the hangar bay at Rebel headquarters. In a dramatic series, he'd be an X-wing pilot constantly making raids on the Death Star. But note that in both the sitcom and dramatic TV version of Star Wars, the Death Star stays. If not, the show would end.
The pilot episode of a TV show usually tells the story of a person entering a new situation. New job, new marriage, divorce, just got out of college, adopted a black person, started spinning cities, sainting elsewheres or willing graces. I'd be really bad at examples because the only TV I watch is the show my friend is on, "Happy Family." In that show's pilot, the baby boomer husband and wife realize, for the first time, that no matter how old your kids get, they never stop being your kids. The "new" situation can be as simple as that, a realization, a theme, the thing that your show is about.
In a larger scope, a TV pilot is giving us (1), (2) and (3), then encouraging us to tune in and watch (4) for the rest of time. But that's looking at the entire run of the show as a single story. Within the scope of an individual episode, pilot or not, you still have to run a full circle:
I
notice a small problem,
and make a major decision.
this changes things
to some satisfaction, but
there are consequences
that must be undone
and I must admit the futility of change.
Uninspiring? Yes, but the joy of TV is in the moment. TV isn't selling revolution, it's selling a hygienic, relatable substitution for your own filthy, unmarketable humanity. The stories are just killing time while the voices and faces wear a groove in your brain and the commercials do their hard, hard work.
But notice how, being required to keep our attention, they have to do so with that circular structure. If we don't get that circle, we'll flip to the next channel.
The characters must start in the ordinary situation, descend into a new situation, adapt to it, become native to it, pay the price and then flock back to basics having "changed."
The trick that television plays is that it swaps out any meaningful and therefore potentially television-subverting truth with the basic, eternal "truth" that change is unneccessary. "What did you learn today, Beaver?" Well, basically, Dad, I learned to never do anything. "Good boy."
There's nothing sinister about the intent, the intent is just to save money on sets and keep scripts relatively modular. You're the one that wanted a capitalist society. Welcome to the overhead-reducing, profit-maximizing techniques of storytelling for money.
That's where Channel 101 comes in. We are not so financially encumbered. We are the next stage in entertainment's evolution.
## Story Structure 106: Five Minute Pilots
I ended my last "tutorial" by saying that next, we'd start examining some 101 videos. But it's been such a long time since then, I thought I might respark first with a total reviewwith an emphasis on the 5 minute time limit.
When I talk about "story structure" I'm talking about something very scientific, like "geometry." Your story could have "perfect" structure, in that it hits all the resonant points craved by the audience mind, but that won't make it a perfect piece of entertainment. Example:
Once upon a time, there was a thirsty man on a couch. He got up off the couch, went to his kitchen, searched through his refrigerator, found a soda, drank it, and returned to his couch, thirst quenched.
That was "perfect story structure." On the other hand, the story sucked.
Here's a converse example:
Once upon a time, a car exploded. A Navy Seal killed a werewolf. Two beautiful naked women had sex with each other, then a robot shot the moon with a Jesus-powered laser. The world became overpopulated by zombies. The End.
Lot of exciting, creative stuff happening, but very little structure. Again, boo, but the lesbian scene did give me a boner.
What do you want? You want both. You want to be cool, but you're going to be cooler if the structure is there. Cool stuff with no structure is like that perfect scene you recorded when you left the lens cap on. "Guess you had to be there." Show me an army of zombies and I might say "cool zombies," but I'm not going to "be there."
You also want to make sure everything's lit well, and that the audio is clear, and that the edits are well-timed, and it would be great if you had fantastic actors and a makeup artist and a million other ingredients. But we are not talking about makeup right now, or lighting, acting, editing, or how to come up with cool ideas. We're focusing on one very particular aspect of a video: Its structure, the geometry of its story. A little bit helps a little, a lot helps a LOT, having none can cripple you.
The thing about Channel 101 that makes it really easy to analyze structure in action: The five minute time limit. That's 300 seconds, 75 seconds per story quarter, 37.5 per step. And what are those steps? Class?
You
Need
Go
Search
Find
Take
Return
Change
As I've said, the easiest way to visualize these steps is by drawing a circle, dividing it into 4 equal pieces, and writing numbers around it clockwise, with (1) and (5) at the north and south "poles" of the circle, (3) and (7) at the east and west poles.
1. "You" - who are we? A squirrel? The sun? A red blood cell? America? By the end of the first 37 seconds, we'd really like to know.
2. "Need" - something is wrong, the world is out of balance. This is the reason why a story is going to take place. The "you" from (1) is an alcoholic. There's a dead body on the floor. A motorcycle gang rolls into town. Campbell phrases: Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, Supernatural Aid.
3. "Go" - For (1) and (2), the "you" was in a certain situation, and now that situation changes. A hiker heads into the woods. Pearl Harbor's been bombed. A mafia boss enters therapy. Campbell phrase: Crossing of the Threshold. Syd Field phrase: Plot Point 1.
4. "Search" - adapting, experimenting, getting shit together, being broken down. A detective questions suspects. A cowboy gathers his posse. A cheerleader takes a nerd shopping. Campbell phrases: Belly of the Whale, Road of Trials. Christopher Vogler phrase: Friends, Enemies and Allies.
5. "Find" - whether it was the direct, conscious goal or not, the "need" from (2) is fulfilled. We found the princess. The suspect gives the location of the meth lab. A nerd achieves popularity. Campbell phrase: Meeting with the Goddess. Syd Field phrase: mid-point. Vogler phrase: Approach to the Innermost Cave.
6. "Take" - The hardest part (both for the characters and for anyone trying to describe it). On one hand, the price of the journey. The shark eats the boat. Jesus is crucified. The nice old man has a stroke. On the other hand, a goal achieved that we never even knew we had. The shark now has an oxygen tank in his mouth. Jesus is deadoh, I get it, flesh doesn't matter. The nice old man had a stroke, but before he died, he wanted you to take this belt buckle. Now go win that rodeo. Campbell phrases: Atonement with the Father, Death and Resurrection, Apotheosis. Syd Field phrase: plot point 2
7. "Return" - It's not a journey if you never come back. The car chase. The big rescue. Coming home to your girlfriend with a rose. Leaping off the roof as the skyscraper explodes. Campbell phrases: Magic Flight, Rescue from Without, Crossing of the Return Threshold.
8. "Change" - The "you" from (1) is in charge of their situation again, but has now become a situation-changer. Life will never be the same. The Death Star is blown up. The couple is in love. Dr. Bloom's Time Belt is completed. Lorraine Bracco heads into the jungle with Sean Connery to "find some of those ants." Campbell phrases: Master of Both Worlds, Freedom to Live.
AGAIN, SAID DIFFERENTLY: If we assume you're going to use your full 5 minutes, then you've got 1 minute and 15 seconds to for these 3 steps:
* Get the audience to identify with someone or something, - Give that someone or something some kind of need, - And start changing the circumstances.
You've then got another 1:15 to:
* Have that someone or something deal with the new circumstances - And find the thing that was needed.
You've got another 1:15 to:
* Have that someone or something pay the price of the find - And start heading back toward the original circumstances.
And a final 1:15 to:
* show how those original circumstances have changed as a result.
In TV (including Channel 101), that last quarter is a good time to make it very clear to the audience that you've got a series in mind. More can happen. As a "situation changer," your protagonist is going to be going on more journeys (episodes), creating a viable series or "franchise."
You want to go nuts? Think of each of the 8 steps as consisting of 8 microcosmic substeps. Because the act of:
(1) Establishing a protagonist
could be done by showing a guy on a couch for 4 seconds, showing a closeup of his face looking thirsty for 4 seconds, and so on until you've spent 37.5 seconds telling the "story of the guy that drank a soda." Then you could go on to
(2) Establish a need
By telling the 37.5 second story of "the guy whose soda turned out to contain poison:"
(2.1) The guy [you]
(2.2) Makes a stink face [need]
(2.3) Starts inspecting the soda can [go]
(2.4) Runs finger over ingredients [search]
(2.5) Finds "poison" in ingredients [find]
(2.6) Chokes [take]
(2.7) Falls down [return]
(2.8) Dead [change]
It's all in the context of step 2, but cycling through a mini-circle. Then you could tell the 37.5 second story of him going to heaven, followed by the story of him asking around for God, the story of him finding God, the story of God telling him he can only go back to Earth if he agrees to be a dog, etc.
I'm not recommending that you sit there with a compass and a calculator breaking down your story to the point where every 4 second line of dialogue consists of 8 syllables and tells the story of a sentence, but it's possible and sometimes "going there" can help you make decisions or get unblocked.
On the other hand, you can also just shotgun it. So what if you have to spend an extra 11 seconds making the audience love your main character, at the price of some time from other sections of the story? So what if, in today's world, we really don't need to spend a proportionate amount of time saying "happily ever after," at the expense of less karate? Nobody's going to notice. A confidently hand drawn, vaguely egg-shaped circle can be circular enough.
You won't win any prizes for being the Phillip Glass of story structure, especially if it starts compromising your creativity. Follow your bliss. If you know what to do, do it. That's called creativity. If you don't know what to do, THEN listen to some guy like me telling you what you HAVE to do.
Okay, that's the review of my story model. And here are some questions it sometimes raises:
FAQ:
Q: Why do stories have to follow this structure?
A: It's not that stories have to follow this structure, it's that, without some semblance of this structure, it's not recognizable as a story.
I learned about "iconography" from working with Rob Schrab for several years. In cartooning, you have to draw a certain combination of lines before the audience is going to universally recognize what you've drawn.
If I draw a cylinder, I can tell you it's a banana, but I can't make you think "banana" on your own unless I make it yellow, taper the ends and give it some curvature. To further extend this metaphor: Sometimes bananas are green in real life. If I make a green, tapered, curved cylinder, does it look like a banana? It looks like a pepper. You can jump up and down and scream about how you just drew a perfectly good banana, because it looks just as much like a real banana as a yellow one (student filmmaker), but I'm telling you, dude, it's a fucking pepper, UNTIL you put more time and energy into giving it OTHER recognizable banana qualitiesfor instance, drawing it half peeled. Okay, now it's a green banana. You blew my mind.
Likewise, I'm saying there's 8 steps to "drawing" a universally recognizable story. Can you skip some of them? Yep. I do it all the time. The "road of trials" in Call me Cobra is a guy sitting down at a table. If I had an extra 30 seconds, I would have written that Steve tries on different outfits and personas, saying "I'm the Cobra" in a mirror before deciding on his black suit and going to his meeting with the goddess. But I skipped it. It's implied. The time was needed elsewhere.
Q: Yeah, but why would a human being recognize certain things as stories? I mean, with a banana, we need to know it's a banana so that we know we can eat it. We don't "eat" stories.
A: Yes we do, and our survival as individuals and as communities is dependent on recognizing the edible, nutritious ones. Information can be "empty calories," like a phone book, or it can be downright "poisonous," like a Superbowl halftime show, a Madonna video or footage of a man blowing his brains out. The right kinds of poison can get you high and help you have fun, but it's getting you high because it's fucking with you, it's killing you, and if you don't occassionally eat real story fooda dramatic game of football where your favorite team wins, a meaningful conversation with friends you trust, a good book, a good movie, a good TV show, witnessing a life being saved at the public poolyou are going to wither away and die, psychologically, spiritually and socially speaking.
Q: But I'm sick and tired of cookie-cutter stories about good guys saving the day from bad guys. Some of my favorite movies fly in the face of your story model.
A: If it's really your favorite movie, I absolutely guarantee you it's structured at least somewhat in accordance with this model. You're hearing "good guys and bad guys," but I'm not saying it. I'm saying "protagonist descending and returning."
The very fact that you ARE sick of ordinary movies is evidence that we live and breathe this structure. If you're a subversive punk rock anarchist with a spike through your nose, and you hate "Shrek" because it's a piece of corporate shit, you are craving a descent into the unknown. "You" are expressing a "need" to "go" to an obscure film magazine, "search" for something unique, "find" a gory Japanese horror film, "take" it, "return" to your apartment with it and use it to "change" your friends' minds about cinema. And I think you will find that your "favorite" Japanese gore fest is the one with a recognizable protagonist needing to eat human flesh, going to an orgy, eating everyone there, raping a woman, killing the police and jumping out the window before heading into the night.
Schrab has this video we watch all the time: It's an orientation video designed to teach mentally r_****ed girls about their period. The protagonist is a r****_ed girl. She starts asking questions about periods. She's led into a bathroom by her older sister, and after a very uncomfortable road of trials, things take a turn for the bizarre. I won't go into detail. Not only is the protagonist going on a journey, the audience is, too.
I have taken great pains to avoid any ethical positioning in my observations of structure. Stories are not necessarily about love conquering all, they're not about achieving spiritual balance, they're not about "learning valuable life lessons" and they're not about maintaining order. They're about change. Subversion of order. By the way, "Shrek" had not-so-good structure.
Good structure is the best weapon we can use in the fight against corporate garbage because good structure costs nothing, is instinctive to the individual and important to the audience. For all their money, computers and famous actors, the Hollywood factory is constantly being challenged and often buried by individuals like you, people who started by realizing that they were sick of the shit they were seeing and wrote a good story from the deepest level of their unconscious mind. I am trying to show you how to make your own gunpowder. You can use it to make pretty fireworks or you can use it to blow up a building full of innocent babies, it's not my place to care.
Q: If this stuff is instinctive, why does it have to be "taught?" A: Because we don't live in the real world anymore. We are not in tune with our instincts. Babies know how to swim when they're born but some adults sink like a stone until another adult shows them some moves.
Q: If you're so great, why haven't you written anything good? A: Isn't that always the way? I'm not a great writer. I'm just a guy that's been obsessed with story structure for the last seven years, non stop. Like I said at the beginning, perfect structure is not synonymous with "good show." This is about what audiences recognize as stories, not about how to be a good writer.
Q: I disagree with your model, I don't think all stories are required to do this or that. A: Prove me wrong. It'd be a great exercise. Don't have a protagonist. Or do have one, but don't give [it] a need. Or have a protagonist with a need whose circumstances never change. Or have a protagonist with a need enter a new set of circumstances, fail to adapt and never find what they needed. Or have them do everything but return. The first lesson you'll learn is that it's pretty hard to actively defy this story model. As soon as you get in the zone and you're writing something that's making you happy, you're going to realize with horror that you've accidentally nailed one of the story steps at exactly the right time.
_End of Series_
## Sources
HN post: [Ask HN: I'd like to learn how to tell stories better to friends](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34562930)
Story Structure by Dan Harmon series:
* [Story Structure 101: Super Basic Shit | Channel 101 Wiki | Fandom](https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Super_Basic_Shit)
* [Story Structure 102: Pure, Boring Theory | Channel 101 Wiki | Fandom](https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_102:_Pure,_Boring_Theory)
* [Story Structure 103: Let's Simplify Before Moving On | Channel 101 Wiki | Fandom](https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_103:_Let%27s_Simplify_Before_Moving_On)
* [Story Structure 104: The Juicy Details | Channel 101 Wiki | Fandom](https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_104:_The_Juicy_Details)
* [Story Structure 105: How TV is Different | Channel 101 Wiki | Fandom](https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_105:_How_TV_is_Different)
* [Story Structure 106: Five Minute Pilots | Channel 101 Wiki | Fandom](https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_106:_Five_Minute_Pilots)
* [Video - Storyline, character building critique on different TV series](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUYr55OIJOjDgVtAeD9VyM96BS1qTFKbH)

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These notes make it possible to offload a massive amount of information while demonstrating "perfect recall" when needed. The goal of a mind sweep is to identify everything that requires your attention or has the possibility of seeping into and affecting other parts of your life. These include things that are stealing your focus, not letting you get your work done properly, etc.
When you identify these things, you will realize that there are things in your head that you haven't been doing anything about. More often than not, this is related to some level of incompletion or procrastination. As long as things keep accumulating, there's no way they will get done. You can start to progress through these actions with a mind sweep.

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## Hardware
* [Lenovo Thinkpad T480s](https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-T480s-20L8S02D00.294734.0.html) – Laptop
* [Logi M575](https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/m575-ergo-wireless-trackball) – Mouse
* [Skullcandy Crusher ANC](https://info.skullcandy.com/Support?Dest=hc%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F360034534854-Crusher-ANC-Wireless) – Headphones
## Software
* [TickTick](https://ticktick.com/) – Task Manager
* [Raindrop](https://raindrop.io/) – Bookmarks Manager
* [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) – Markdown Text Editor
* [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) – Code Editor
### Notable Visual Studio Code Extensions
* [Prettier](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=esbenp.prettier-vscode) – Opinionated Code Formatter.
* [Markdown All in One](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yzhang.markdown-all-in-one) – Markdown Support.
* [CodeSwing](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=codespaces-Contrib.codeswing) – Interactive Coding Playground.
* [Markwhen](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Markwhen.markwhen) – View/Edit Markwhen documents.
* [Markmap](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gera2ld.markmap-vscode) – Preview markdown files as Markmap.
* [GistPad](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsls-contrib.gistfs) – Edit GitHub Gists and Repositories remotely.
* [Project Manager](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alefragnani.project-manager) – Easily change current Project/Folder.
* [shift shift](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ahgood.shift-shift) – Provides shortcuts for `shift + shift` and `ctrl + ctrl`.
### Notable Obsidian Extensions
* [Omnisearch](https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch) – Better Search Engine.
* [Kanban](https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban) – Kanban Boards for Obsidian.
* [Obsidian Git](https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git) – Run Git commands from Obsidian.
* [Natural Language Dates](https://github.com/argenos/nldates-obsidian) – Adds `@today` format to dates.
* [Linter](https://github.com/platers/obsidian-linter) – Customizable Markdown Linter similar to Prettier.
* [Editor Shortcuts](https://github.com/timhor/obsidian-editor-shortcuts) – Adds shortcuts usually found in Code Editors.
* [ShellCommands](https://github.com/Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands) – Execute Shell commands from within Obsidian.
* [DoubleShift](https://github.com/Qwyntex/doubleshift) – Provides shortcuts for `shift + shift` and `ctrl + ctrl`.
* [Contextual Typography](https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-contextual-typography) – Allows for custom insertion of code at the block level.

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## Why Would Anyone Want to Do This?
* To enhance the use of the Firefox [Side View](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/side-view/) extension.
* To compliment the use of one of my Firefox sidebar [extensions](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/17772574/).
## Step-by-Step Instructions
1. In a new tab, navigate to `about:support`.
2. Under _Application Basics_, find _Profile Folder_.
3. Locate and click the `Open Folder` button next to it. It will be next to an address similar to: `%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{profile-id}.default` [^1]
4. Inside your Firefox _Profile Folder_, create a new folder named: `chrome`.
5. Inside the newly created chrome folder, create a new file named: `userChrome.css`.
6. Copy the following code, paste as content and save: [^2]
```css
#sidebar-box {
max-width: 40% !important;
min-width: 300px !important;
}
```
1. Finally, in a new tab, navigate to `about:config` and search for `toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets` and change it to `true`.
2. Restart Firefox and test it out!
[^1]: `%appdata%` is equivalent to `C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming`
[^2]: After Firefox 107, `#sidebar` was deprecated, and `#sidebar-box` was introduced.

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## Monthly Breakdown
### July
* 2023-07-29 – [Avenged Sevenfold](https://seatgeek.com/avenged-sevenfold-with-alexisonfire-tickets/minneapolis-minnesota-target-center-2023-07-29-6-30-pm/concert/5981444) ❌
### August
* 2023-08-01 – [RuPaul's Drag Race](https://seatgeek.com/rupauls-drag-race-werq-the-world-18-tickets/minneapolis-minnesota-state-theatre-minneapolis-2023-08-01-8-pm/concert/5963765)❌
* 2023-08-02 – [Paramore](https://seatgeek.com/paramore-tickets/saint-paul-minnesota-xcel-energy-center-8-2023-08-02-7-pm/concert/5864106)❌
* 2023-08-10 – [P!NK](https://www.mlb.com/twins/tickets/concerts/pink)❌
* 2023-08-11 – [Halestorm](https://seatgeek.com/halestorm-tickets/prior-lake-minnesota-mystic-lake-casino-hotel-2023-08-11-8-pm/concert/6037347)❌
* 2023-08-12 – [Ed Sheeran with Khalid](https://seatgeek.com/ed-sheeran-with-khalid-tickets/minneapolis-minnesota-u-s-bank-stadium-2023-08-12-6-pm/concert/5830100)❌
* 2023-08-25 – [Artic Monkeys](https://seatgeek.com/arctic-monkeys-tickets/minneapolis-minnesota-the-armory-minneapolis-2023-08-25-8-pm/concert/5830121)❌
* 2023-08-26 – [Arctic Monkeys](https://seatgeek.com/arctic-monkeys-tickets/minneapolis-minnesota-the-armory-minneapolis-2023-08-26-8-pm/concert/5835308)❌
* 2023-08-27 – [The All-American Rejects](https://www.bandsintown.com/e/104302128-the-all-american-rejects-at-armory?came_from=253&utm_medium=web&utm_source=home&utm_campaign=event)❌
* 2023-08-31 – [Pearl Jam](https://www.bandsintown.com/e/104358656-pearl-jam-at-xcel-energy-center?came_from=253&utm_medium=web&utm_source=home&utm_campaign=event)❌
### September
* 2023-09-01 – [Jonas Brothers](https://seatgeek.com/jonas-brothers-tickets/saint-paul-minnesota-minnesota-state-fair-grandstand-2023-09-01-7-pm/concert/6015298)❌
* 2023-09-14 – [Eric Clapton](https://seatgeek.com/eric-clapton-tickets/saint-paul-minnesota-xcel-energy-center-8-2023-09-14-7-30-pm/concert/5981512)
* 2023-09-17 – [Queens of the Stone Age](https://seatgeek.com/queens-of-the-stone-age-tickets/minneapolis-minnesota-the-armory-minneapolis-2023-09-17-7-pm/concert/6046669)
* 2023-09-14 – [Three Days Grace, Chevelle with Loathe](https://seatgeek.com/three-days-grace-and-chevelle-with-loathe-tickets/prior-lake-minnesota-mystic-lake-casino-hotel-2023-09-17-6-pm/concert/6038876)
* 2023-09-22 – [Tiesto](https://seatgeek.com/tiesto-18-tickets/minneapolis-minnesota-the-armory-minneapolis-2023-09-22-8-pm/concert/6002643)
### October
* 2023-10-07 – [Wu-Tang Clan and Nas](https://seatgeek.com/wu-tang-clan-and-nas-tickets/minneapolis-minnesota-target-center-2023-10-07-8-pm/concert/5957125)
* 2023-10-16 – [Boys Like Girls](https://seatgeek.com/boys-like-girls-15-tickets/minneapolis-minnesota-fillmore-minneapolis-2023-10-16-6-30-pm/concert/6039016) (Emily and Jami plan on going)
* 2023-10-26 – [Floyd Nation Experience - Pink Floyd Tribute](https://seatgeek.com/floyd-nation-experience-pink-floyd-tribute-tickets/burnsville-minnesota-ames-center-2023-10-26-7-30-pm/concert/6027228)
* 2023-10-27 – [Infected Mushroom](https://infected-mushroom.com/events/usa-minneapolis-mn-wobbleween/) (Wobbleween)
### November
* 2023-11-13 – [Aerosmith](https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1028294752-aerosmith-at-xcel-energy-center?came_from=253&utm_medium=web&utm_source=home&utm_campaign=event)

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## Personal Items
* Seche Clear and Vive Duo Kit – [Base/Top Nail Polish](https://www.seche.com/seche-clear-vive-duo-kit.html)
## Electronics
* JLab Go Air Sport – [Earbuds](https://www.jlab.com/products/go-air-sport-true-wireless-earbuds?variant=39393482637384)
* EVGA Z12 – [Computer Keyboard](https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=834-W0-12US-KR) – [Alt Link](https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Z12-Programmable-Dedicated-834-W0-12US-KR/dp/B09C2DLCPG)
## Stationary
* Uni Jetstream (0.7 mm) – [Ballpoint Pen](https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Jetstream-Sport-Ballpoint-Pen-0.7-mm-Blue-Ink/pd/1648) – [Others](https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Jetstream-Ballpoint-Pens/ct/354)
## Books
* Can't Be Trusted – [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Be-Trusted-Bart-Johnson/dp/B08P8F1HJN)
* Practical Engineering – [Book](https://practical.engineering/book) – [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/171850232X/)
* Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers – [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Encounters-Passage-Inuit-Meet-Explorers/dp/1442611030)
* Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories – [Book](https://qntm.org/vhitaos) – [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLGBZPJX)
* The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life – [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuitive/dp/0062457713)
## Music
* Inside Voices by K. Flay – [CD](https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/k-flay/products/inside-voices-cd)
* Outside Voices by K. Flay – [CD](https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/k-flay/products/outside-voices)
* Life As A Dog (Deluxe) by K. Flay – [CD](https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/k-flay/products/life-as-a-dog-deluxe-cd)

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### Anodyne (adjectives)
1. Capable of soothing or eliminating pain.
2. Not likely to offend or arouse tensions.
Also used as a _noun_ to describe something that soothes, calms, or comforts.
### Arete (noun)
1. Virtue, excellence.
2. Concept in ancient Greek thought that, in its most basic sense, refers to 'excellence' of any kind—especially a person or thing's "full realization of potential or inherent function." The term may also refer to excellence in "moral virtue."
3. AKA **ἀρετή**.
### Axiom (noun)
1. A self-evident or universally recognized truth; a maxim.
2. An established rule, principle, or law.
3. A self-evident principle or one that is accepted as true without proof as the basis for argument; a postulate.
### Axiomatic (adjective)
1. Of, relating to, or resembling an axiom; self-evident.
### Cogitation (noun)
1. The action of thinking deeply about something. Example: "Sorry, did I interrupt your cogitation?"
2. The act of thinking very carefully about a subject, or the thoughts themselves.
### Contrivance (noun)
1. The use of skill to bring something about or create something. Example: "The requirements of the system, by happy chance and some contrivance, can be summed up in an acronym."
2. A device, especially in literary or artistic composition, which gives a sense of artificiality.
### Diligence (noun)
1. Careful and persistent work or effort.
2. Steady, earnest, and energetic effort.
3. Care; heed; caution; heedfulness.
4. A public stage-coach: usually with reference to France, but also applied to such stage-coaches elsewhere.
### Dinghy (noun)
1. A small open boat carried or towed as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft by a larger boat.
2. A small rowboat or motorboat.
3. An inflatable rubber life raft.
### Dogfooding (slang)
* _From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food)_: Eating your own dog food or "_dogfooding_" is the practice of using one's own products or services.
### Excoriate (verb)
1. Censure or criticize severely. (Formal description)
2. To criticize (something) harshly.
3. Damage or remove part of the surface of the skin. (Medical definition)
### Engender (verb)
1. To cause to exist or to develop. Example: "Policies that have engendered controversy."
### Expediency (noun)
1. Appropriateness to the purpose at hand.
2. Adherence to self-serving means.
### Forestall (noun)
1. To delay, hinder, or prevent (an event, for example) by taking action beforehand: synonym: prevent.
2. To delay, hinder, or prevent (someone) from doing something by taking action beforehand.
3. To prevent or hinder normal sales in (a market), as by buying up merchandise.
### Frumpy / Frumpish (slang)
1. Dull or plain.
2. Prim and sedate.
### Furphy (slang)
1. (slang) a rumour, or an erroneous or improbable story.
2. A rumour or story, especially one that is untrue or absurd.
3. Australian slang for an erroneous or improbable story that is claimed to be factual.
### Glib (adjectives)
1. Performed with a natural, offhand ease.
2. Given to or characterized by fluency of speech or writing that often suggests insincerity, superficiality, or a lack of concern.
### Grok (transitive verb)
1. To understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with.
2. To empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment.
3. [Neologism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism "Neologism") coined by American writer [Robert A. Heinlein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein "Robert A. Heinlein") for his 1961 [science fiction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction "Science fiction") novel _[Stranger in a Strange Land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land "Stranger in a Strange Land")_.
### Innocuous (adjectives)
1. Producing no injury, harmless.
2. Not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility.
### Inoculation (slang)
1. To introduce immunologically active material (such as an antibody or antigen) into especially in order to treat or prevent a disease.
2. To introduce (something, such as a microorganism) into a suitable situation for growth.
### Insipid (adjectives)
1. Lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge.
2. Lacking taste or savor.
### Jaunt (noun)
1. A short trip or excursion, usually for pleasure; an outing.
### Logy (slang)
1. Characterised by lethargy; sluggish.
### Palliate (verb)
1. To reduce the violence of (a disease).
2. To cover by excuses and apologies.
3. To moderate the intensity of.
### Paratelic (adjective)
1. Applied to the mental orientation of a person who has a fun loving attitude to a situation and seeks excitement. A paratelic state of mind is activity orientated and pleasure seeking. See also reversal theory. Compare telic.
### Rue (noun)
1. Any of various aromatic woody herbs or shrubs of the genus Ruta of the Mediterranean region and western Asia, especially the ornamental R. graveolens, having bipinnately compound leaves that yield an acrid volatile oil formerly used in medicine.
2. Any of various other plants having similar foliage, such as meadow rue.
3. Sorrow; regret.
### Sleuth (noun)
1. Detective.
2. To act as a detective.
3. To search for information.
### Succinct (adjective)
1. Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse.
2. Encircled as if by a girdle; girded.
### Sycophant (noun)
1. A person who attempts to gain advantage by flattering influential people or behaving in a servile manner.
### Torpor (noun)
1. A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility.
2. Lethargy; apathy. synonym: lethargy.
3. The dormant, inactive state of a hibernating or estivating animal.
### Unabashed (adjective)
1. Not disconcerted or embarrassed; poised.
2. Not concealed or disguised; obvious.

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title: Learning to Write with Outlines
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Learning how to write with brevity (short-form), how to write long-form, how to use gesticulation. Looking for ways to streamline producing written content.
## Questions to Be Answered by Post
* What is an outline
* Why should I use one
* How do I make one
## What Needs to Be Mentioned
* Essential tips. Must do when creating an outline
* Provide an example of an outline
* Outlines are not barriers. They are a tool to structure your writing.
## Logical Order
* Define the purpose of the essay
* Define the audience of your essay
* Write your thesis statement (consequential thesis statement)
* Brainstorm all of the ideas you want to include in your essay
* Group related ideas
* Label your ideas with headings and sub-headings
* Write a draft of your outline
* Write an intro and conclusion. Purposely last.
## Links to Reference Material
* [How to Outline // Purdue Writing Lab](https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/the_writing_process/developing_an_outline/how_to_outline.html)
* [How to Write an Outline: 4 Ways to Organize Your Thoughts | Grammarly](https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-outline/)
* [How to Write a Blog Post Outline: A Simple Formula to Follow](https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-write-blog-post-outline)

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title: Forgetful Notes
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Hey there! I'm Miguel, and you have come across **Forgetful Notes**—my [[Digital Garden|digital garden]] of knowledge. It serves as a platform for my learning and creative endeavours. A space for thinking through, building upon, and coming back to.