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0.15.0 - And bad mistakes, I've made a few (Week 15 Wrapup)

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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...

0.1.0 - It's been...

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  Dashboard!  Yes, I realised my post title numbering system was flawed, yes I went and retroactively fixed it, no it still probably doesn't make sense to anyone apart from me, I have made my peace with that. One week kind of down then;  certainly most of a week, and if I want to stay sane and run a Monday-Sunday week count, then this is the end of week 0/the start of week one.  As I said at the start, not every album or band I listened to is going to get a braindump blog post dedicated to them, some might just get a few words of explanation and we will move on.  I have a lengthier post in the chamber but I am saving that until next week. So, at the end of week zero, here's where the leaderboard stands:- I've listened to 24 albums in 5 days;  at this pace, Ian Wang will have been handily disposed of by August and I could really push myself and try and lap him and get to 2,000 as a flex.  I think we all know this rate isn't sustainable though.  Nic...