0.15.0 - And bad mistakes, I've made a few (Week 15 Wrapup)
This week: Accelerationist anxiety, a silly amount of albums from the mid 1990s. It used to be for me that a deadline provided a very useful starting point for a simple calculation. If the deadline for any given task is in, say 5 days time, and it's a task that should take me 4 hours to complete, I will schedule myself to begin that task in 4 days and 20 hours time, and until I reach that threshold I would act as if that task did not exist. It's ironic, because I'm quite serious about punctuality when I make plans with people; at some point in the past someone impressed on me the importance of being on time for things and now I get frustrated if I am late, and very frustrated if other people are making me late for plans with other people because their view of timekeeping is (lets say politely) more flexible than mine, but my desire not to do work often overcame my need to be on time. Over the years, I've trained myself to see deadlines as more "the am...