Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
Just finished Deep work last night. Like many big books there are a few things I can really take away and use to change my life and they dont affect…
Read more →Making a small dent on chapter 8. And then I need to reherse all chapters. I realized trying to get 100% is boring, because 90% of activities are in stuff…
Read more →Only had time now. Work was distracting and it didn’t help that everyone around me was sick. I could not really go all out since it would leave me vulnerable.…
Read more →Recent Lessons: 1) document as I go. Everything is overwhelming my capacity for attention. Its best to always document so that I can break it up into smaller pieces. 1.1)…
Read more →Patience noun noun: patience 1. the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. “you can find bargains if you have the patience to sift…
Read more →My main barrier of converting most of my distractions into usefully spent time is how much of start up time getting back into my little projects. My Chinese studies has…
Read more →After 11 months of use (bought july 7 2015) even we owned it for 13 months its finally broken in a way that we need to send it to the…
Read more →Obviously I’m in hiatus from the lack of posts. So that you have a better idea of how long I’m down to set expectations there is a chance I’ll be…
Read more →95%, 39/41 score. Npcr 6 I started listening to pimsluers Chinese audio exercises this morning. Will try to get the npcr audio to listen to as well. So I try…
Read more →So I got my brothers old but formidable rig. Far better than my lenovo z50. I’m buying it from him at a discount. This is meant to allow the wife…
Read more →Fri Aug 05 08:14:51 2016 #TIR #meetings I’m guessing this is the same as the toolbox meetings. that the barriers for having TRPGs run with more than 4-5 people are…
Read more →#TIR better habits replace existing habits. We don’t just add habits, we look at how we do things and make improvements. Simply adding will make us lose time and focus…
Read more →I wasn’t able to study that much this week. I could only find so much time because my physical therapy is taking up a lot of my time in a…
Read more →My morning ritual with the espresso machine, the difference a year made in the learning curve. From spending 2.2usd for a starbucks dopio to only 1.1usd of coffee. Thats 15g…
Read more →I need to do more drills. I had about one drill last week. My back therapy, sciatica pain management and strengthening exercises, have been eating 2 hours of my day.…
Read more →Will move to chapter 7, hope to keep a pace of a chapter a week. I might slow down as I will stop focusing on one chapter and focus on…
Read more →Npcr 7 reading 83% NPCR 4 writing 100% NPCR 5 writing 100% NPCR 6 writing 22% I will need to spend a few hours this week drilling npcr 6 writing.…
Read more →This is npcr chapter 5. Averaging 20-30 mins a day. Hopefully I can keep this up. I wasn’t able to go the Chinese conversation club yesterday since the wife had…
Read more →This was about 30 minutes worth and I kept forgetting to screen cap the previous scores. It will take maybe 10 of these to have the habit.
Read more →With Pokemon GO all the rage its become clear that Augmented Reality Games will be the trend to look forward to. For Us TRPGers that means the possibility of more…
Read more →what one carries with them is a bit of a fascination. I’m pretty cluttered and want to declutter but there are things that I carry with me which have a…
Read more →Writing is harder in the beginning and if you don’t have a place to write and think. This is just chapter 5. I’ll try to do the exercises everyday when…
Read more →Turn off animation in developer options. To turn on developer options go to settings, about device, and press build version 5 times. You can also limit running applications. If you’re…
Read more →Hard Mode 60-80 rule was meant to stress direct agency in a situation. It highlights that some situations we cannot control if we have no direct influence in the matter.…
Read more →I’ve not been diligent. I need to do the drills every time I have time to spare and need to make stories about each character for writing. Daniw is part…
Read more →The mind doesnt like Uncertainty and playing with this bias can be unique role-playing and system mechanic opportunity I call hard mode 60-80. Basically Hard Mode Rule 60-80. Based on…
Read more →So reinstalled it after 2-3 years or so. Because I wanted something faster and simpler to set up for posting. Zenfone max Update with me is that the zenfone max…
Read more →A lot of the adventuring skills mentioned here can be pursued out of fitness sake. As a Gamer the pursuit of these skills also means being informed, inspired, appreciating, and…
Read more →Creating a Life Event Table for Any Game System (of course it can be used in GURPS but it will be usable in D&D and in my ORPG) inspired by…
Read more →Gaming has been influential in giving me a sense of adventure and exploration. It has helped frame much of my life experiences in this way and helped me choose some…
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