All the public libraries I've been to in the US use a decimal classification system that I assume is Dewey Decimal. For example, programming books are under 005.* AUTHORLASTNAME.
Exercise helps because it completes the stress cycle[1]. When burnt out it can be hard to find time, so try one of these and see if they help:
* High intensity intervals. Do 2 minutes of light intensity cardio as warm up. Then alternate 20 seconds at top effort with 10 seconds of rest. 10 cycles of this will only take you 5 minutes. You should be out of breath by the end.
* Faster version of yoga woodchopper pose[2]. Stand with feet apart and knees slightly bent. Clasp hands and raise above head. Bend knees and bring your hands down while you exhale with a loud "Ha!" Do it slow a few times for warm up, then do it fast and imagine your hands crushing a stressor at the bottom. Yell if it won't disturb the neighbors.
* Tense your whole body for 20 seconds, then slowly exhale and release the tension. While tensing, imagine either beating up or successfully running away from something that is stressing you out.
Radiopaper is both empowering and requiring every user to be a content moderator. Let's say Alice and Bob sign up and start holding interesting conversations. Then Nasty McNasterson starts sending hate mail and death wishes to Alice and Bob. Alice and Bob can stop Nasty's messages from showing publicly, but first they have to see the never-ending stream of abuse. What can they do to stop this? Can they block Nasty from sending them messages? If enough people block Nasty, can Nasty be kicked off the platform? On the other hand, if Nasty and an army of sock puppets (or a brigade of chat buddies) block Alice and Bob, will they get kicked off instead?
I think Sean McClure's advice only applies when you have so much of one resource that you can afford to be inefficient when trading it for another.
If you have so little cash you have to choose between paying the water bill or the gas bill because you can't afford both, spending time to optimize your cash is a matter of survival. Poor people are also criticized if they don't penny pinch.
College students are often cash-poor but time-rich, so it makes sense they would pinch their pennies and consume time to preserve the scarce resource of cash.
Tech professionals are often time-poor but cash-rich, so it makes sense to pinch their minutes and spend cash to preserve the scarce resource of time.
And for the many in poverty who are both cash-poor and time-poor, time is usually the more flexible resource and so they pinch pennies.
Warning signs about the trustworthiness of this site's reporting:
- Top banner says "News that impacts your health that other sites may censor!" -- a common claim of pseudoscience / conspiracy theory sites
- The bottom banners are anti-vaccine FUD, like a preposterous claim that "all vaccines cause harm"
- The "Peace with God" site link in the top banner leads to a site with COVID and modern-medicine-is-Satanic conspiracy theories
- When they attribute claims to specific people, they either link to Wikipedia pages of the people (proving the person exists, but not proving they said what the article claims), or to other conspiracy sites or videos.
It's an interesting read of someone struggling with a hard idea. Im glad he started to think about the context, and why it's different for him to write about a Belgian nun than if he wrote a book with a black or trans main character. But he missed the idea that if he does want to write a book where the context is tricky, he should ask for help from people who know more about the context, who might help him realize whether or not the book is "misbegotten" and if he is "not up to this particular task." Writers look up lots of weird things for their books. They can look up a person who knows more about it and pay them for their help. That person might even give them ideas that they would never have thought of! The writer can also ask more questions to find out if what they want to write has tricky context: between the writer and the subject, who has the power? Who might be harmed? Does this fit bad patterns? What is the context? []
