Jeroen Sangers

The story you tell yourself creates your reality.

Part of the activation energy required to start any task comes from the picture you get in your head when you imagine doing it. It may not be that going for a run is actually costly; but if it feels costly, if the picture in your head looks like a slog, then you will need a bigger expenditure of will to lace up.

Slowness seems to make a special contribution to this picture in our heads. Time is especially valuable. So as we learn that a task is slow, an especial cost accrues to it. Whenever we think of doing the task again, we see how expensive it is, and bail.

That’s why speed matters.

Today I received my invite to access Tana and immediately imported my Roam Research database.

So far, I like what I see, but will have to do a lot of work to recreate a trusted system in Tana.

There is still a lot to figure out, including some very basic stuff such as how to create an inline hyperlink and how to capture information from my phone and tablet.

Love it how an insurance company sent me my username and password in two separate mailings several days apart, but since international postal delivery is flakey, the mailman handed me both envelopes at the same time.

With Mastodon I get the same feeling as email in the early days.

Remember the hassle to change from yahoo.com to hotmail.com to gmail.com?

Having and using your own domain name makes switching email providers a breeze and should also be the norm for Mastodon. You can follow me at @jeroen@jeroensangers.com on Mastodon.

And yes: that’s certainly how a lot of capitalist cultures think about time — as something that can be wasted or optimized. It’s often predicated on the idea that you should be focused on doing one thing, and one thing only, very efficiently: time is money, etc. etc. But that itself, sometimes referred to as a “monochronic” understanding of time, is no more or less “natural” than other ways of conceiving of time, like “polychronic” culture, which understands time as dynamic, flexible, and filled with several tasks at once, each of which will take the time that they need. Monochronic cultures may be more “efficient” in their use of time, but in their treatment of time as a commodity, they lose the richness that comes with allowing tasks, conversations, and interactions to move forward at a more natural and sustainable pace.

My quest for the rest of this year: get better at living a “polychronic” life.

Para un proyecto estoy buscando un proveedor acreditado para el #KitDigital con experiencia demonstrable en diseño web con Squarespace.

What’s the benefit of 4K video when YouTube by default fills only a third of the screen (at most!) with its video player. I always maximize the player, but know I’m an exception.

Now that everybody is migrating to Mastodon, I suddenly remembered that a few years ago I created an account on mastodon.social to try it out.

It has been abandoned ever since, so today I deleted the account just to prevent people from subscribing to the wrong account.

If your interested in following me on Mastodon, you can follow my personal site (the one true source of all my writings, toots and tweets) at @jeroen@jeroensangers.com.

Once in a while I go through the ever growing list of Roam Research extensions and find something useful that apparently had been available for a while already. Is there a newsletter, Twitter account or RSS feed to get notifications of new additions to the Roam Depot?

It is simple:

Early is on time.  On time is late.  Late is unacceptable.

Via @Patrickrhone

I dedicated some more time to reflect on yesterday’s thoughts and decided to map out my whole personal information workflow in Roam Research.

It probably is incomplete and misses a lot of small nuances, but it looks complicated enough already and serves its purpose of getting a high level overview.

It has only been a little over two weeks that I upgraded to macOS Ventura, and already got my ass saved twice by the ‘Undo Send’ button in Mail.

Nicholas is as inspiring as usual:

Read. But the original. The long version. The fresh thinkers. Don't accept the hyperbole...Become your own expert.

Currently reading: Good Anxiety by Wendy Suzuki 📚

Finished reading: Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan 📚

I updated my Now page and my list of the tools I use.

Just five minutes after reading Create link rel-me tags on micro.blog by @muhh, I already have the meta tags plugin for micro.blog installed and my link rel-me tags created.

📸 Wet leaves 🍃 Is autumn finally coming?
Lleida, 12:20 CET A Day in the Life of Micro.blog

📸 All prepared for the trading course

While waiting to get access to Tana, I have watched some videos from current users. No doubt it is a very powerful tool, but in 75% of the videos I have the sensation that the person over complicates thing that could (and should) be simple.

Today I was so focused that I forgot to post an image. But I don’t feel guilty, since there is no true commitment, just good intentions.