Check-In thread: What are you working on? What do you want to improve?

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Introduce yourself!

I will set up automoderator to post and pin a daily check-in thread every day at UTC+0.

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[–]Bitchcraft[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I'm a female STEM graduate student in Europe. I can't be too much more specific without the risk of doxxing myself.

I'm currently working on two areas:

  • General lifestyle: I really struggle to keep a good circadian rhythm. I need to go to the gym more.

  • Media Consumption. I'm "very online", but I'm extremely passive (as in, I hardly ever post). I have no social media besides big R. Reddit used to be cool, but for reasons we are all aware of, it has gone to shit. I spend so much time just scrolling/reading, I want it to matter. So either I tone it down, or I make it matter, by having good conversations and contributing content.

Recently I've taken up reading books again. Hopefully I can make that habit stick. I plan to write a bunch of book reviews soon.

[–]Nombre27 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nice.

Do you keep a daily schedule for yourself? I find that scheduling helps me fit things in more consistently.

Regarding book reviews, how is that going? Have you ever read Adler's How to Read a Book? It's a great resource on how to get the most out of books and provides an outline how ot approach reading, summaries, etc. I've also found that making summaries as you read is better than leaving it to the end when it's a bit more daunting because of the amount of work required.

What books are you looking to summarize/review?

[–]Bitchcraft[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do you keep a daily schedule for yourself?

My day is split into segments, I assign one significant task I want to advance to a segment. In normal times, my lengthy commute forces me to tie my day to a train schedule, with lunch as a divider for my time at uni. Now, in pandemic times, sunrise, lunch and sunset split my day.

Yes, I've read How to read a Book as supplementary material in my humanities requirement, probably the single best aspect of the humanities requirement.

Regarding book reviews, how is that going?

I'm working on two things in parallel.

  • A systematic, comparative review of the last 6 Sci-Fi books I've recently read (I've been on a binge). My focus here is to contrast the old Hugo/Nebula type of classics vs more recent Sci-Fi bestsellers.

  • Pop-Sci books that I found notable (not necessarily for their quality). Here, my my review effort is more of a "peer review" or attempt to square it with actual literature. The book I'm currently reviewing in that section is "How to sleep". Keeping a good sleep schedule is important, but not important enough to justify a poorly researched pop-sci book (I'm not the first to notice how bad this book is).

Thanks for making one of the first serious contributions to this sub!

[–]fschmidt 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I am a programmer who hates modern programming (and modern culture), so I developed my own programming environment.

Since humanity has recently become evil and stupid, I am interested in education as a means to reverse this. I am studying education now to figure out what best to do. I have some experience with education since I home-schooled my kids.

[–]Bitchcraft[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Welcome!

You sure are an interesting person, based on Luan's about page. I haven't logged into saidit for while, but I hope we can get this subsaidit going. Next "check in thread" will be next Monday.

Since humanity has recently become evil and stupid

When did this begin, in your opinion?

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