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working offcomputer

holy smokes! A good bit of my work is thought work, writing, and planning-centric. I typically start my day by opening up the ole computer and...getting lost in email and battling impulses. Sometimes I'll use an app like 1Focus or Freedom to block the internet and work offline—reducing interruptions from others and putting speed bumps in the way of my own distractions. But today I took it a step further than working offline and actually worked "offcomputer." I used a spiral bound notebook to draft essays, outline campaigns, craft plans, and sort my week. Tomorrow and beyond I'll begin transferring all that deep notebook work into docs and messages and taking action on them. It has been my most productive day in months.

@mattshawsome

Oct 14, 2024

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do stuff with paper and a pen/pencil

Digital tools are necessary for a lot of things, but more and more I'm looking for ways to start and supplement my workflows offline Recently I drafted several emails in a notebook by hand — I realized upon review that they were more creative and thoughtful, which was good, because they were high-stakes communications Although I do have digital productivity tools in my life, nothing beats—for me—a handwritten list of tasks I keep a tiny notebook in my pocket for jotting stuff down. I realize that if I whip out my phone to jot down an idea, I may get list in the machine and forget the idea before I've even recorded it. Also some writing, by hand, at the start and end of the day to observe and consider the day ...okay, after re-reading your rec, I don't know if this is even applicable or on topic so I'm gonna wrap up and click "Share"

@mattshawsome

Jun 5, 2025

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getting offline but not analogous

I had bought a yellow notebook few months ago thinking about "posting for myself" following the revival of journals and personal diaries. The thing is when I try to write down a feeling or just what it's on my mind at the moment I fail on keeping the writing momentum, so I choose phone notes instead. I think it's time to admit that writing in keyboard mode is by far more authentic for me than grabbing a pen.

@sagitariotunin

Jun 27, 2024

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Lorde’s Lyrics

I don’t think pop music has historically ever had a moment like her “Girl, So Confusing” remix verse. It’s not a joke. It’s a triumph for literature. Everyone remembers where they were the first time they heard it. This was a serious revolution and took us out of her usual fever dreaminess of controlled poetic syntax (which I love) , to just unmasked, raw, chaotic feminine brutality and I don’t think we appreciate the prose switch-up enough. I also have said “let’s work it out on the remix?” to many people I’ve fought with since the song dropped. Sometimes I even write a verse mimicking the song taking accountability of what I’ve done and I send it to who I’m in a conflict with, it actually helps! I’m obsessed with the new singles off her upcoming album Virgin and I’m already studying the cadence of epigrams like ‘MDMA in the back garden’,. I’m someone who struggles with severe summer depression, which is taboo in the world of seasonal sadists but taking my discman for a walk by the ocean as “The Path” starts up on my (files purchased on ITunes!) burnt CD-R copy of ‘Solar Power’ is nature’s SSRI. Suck on that, Saint John’s Wort.

@alex-kazemi

1d ago

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Region Free DVD Players

The reason I got a region free DVD player in my mid 20s was because I wanted to own a European copy of the Leonardo Dicaprio Gen X deep-cut/full of lore movie Don’s Plum. If you can sometimes save the money, you spend on vaping, events, weed, alcohol, drugs or whatever to buy rare out of print DVDs (even bootlegs sometimes) that are locked to Japan, Australia, UK, whatever isn’t North American. Do it, you’ll never regret it. The delayed gratification of waiting weeks for a DVD that is available to stream right now on some scary illegal link that has 300 pop ups to come in the mail may not make sense to a lot of people but I really appreciate the movie more, and having the association of the whole experience of having to track it down vs just getting it right now makes it so fun. I own a lot of rare TV series box sets from the 90s/2000s that never got released in North America, and are impossible to find online. Join me, you can live this lifestyle too!

@alex-kazemi

1d ago

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KABBALAH RED STRING

My red string protects me from the ‘evil eye’. It’s the most important spiritual system to ever exist because all modern occultism is derived from Kabbalistic thought. . The difference between a lot of magick/modern spirituality/new age thought and Kabbalah is that it’s all about taking accountability, and responsibility. If we have a dream, it has to be service driven or for the sake of sharing. We as Kabbalists believe that we create any type of chaos that comes into our lives, and if we take the conscious effort to correct our negative qualities, the universe and the material world can mirror this beautiful alchemy and keep us connected to a transcendent state of divinity,  I like to call ‘the light.’

@alex-kazemi

1d ago