Year of Habits
Hello friends!
This was a fairly light week on coding (I went skiing for the first time instead!), but I did successfully get out a few blog posts:
Publishing my Fall 2022 class notes, which you can see online here
How (and why?) I went all of last semester without eating any dessert from the dining halls
Adding a second major (in addition to Computer Science)
I’ve been mulling over this rough idea that I want 2023 to be my Year of Habits (in accordance to the Cortex podcast’s idea of yearly themes). I want to take the focus off of specific habits, since those change, and instead focus on creating and maintaining habits that produce desirable outcomes. A focus on the process, not on the outcome, etc etc.
In that same vein, I came across a tool last week called Polar Habits which is such a clever idea. It visualizes habits on a “momentum” graph, so that when you skip a day you don’t fail everything, it just causes your momentum to trend downwards if you keep missing days.
It takes into account how long you’ve been going (missing the third day vs. missing the 76th) and how many days in a row you miss. I find the visual graph super compelling.
For example, here’s the graph of my habit for writing 10 minutes every day. That’s what produced the blog posts above!
That’s all for this week — thanks for reading!
Take it easy,
Ben