Posts for: #introspection

Until it BSODed while opening my photo editor earlier today¹, my home PC had over two months of uptime — pretty alright for a Windows 10² box! This is not atypical for me: while browsers are pretty good at keeping my tabs indefinitely these days, my text editors persist unsaved changes automatically, and seemingly every other application autosaves every keystroke³, I generally prefer to just put my computer to sleep at the end of the day and have it resume to the exact place I had left off.
Saving (or losing) work isn't even the main issue here; it's primarily persistence of mental state — like a CPU lifting a frame off the stack to reveal a previous one, resuming the computer also allows me to resume the frame of mind I was in when I last used it, catapulting me into the flow of wherever I was up to before.

There are many magic phrases — classics such as 'abracadabra', 'please', or 'open sesame' — but I think possibly the most practical (as far as a professional toolbox goes) has to be 'I don't know'.

Returning home from the office, I found myself sitting on the train in a state of stupor, as one is wont to be while commuting home at 6:53pm in full dark. Unlike Sherlock Holmes, I did not consider injecting cocaine to be a good solution, so was just staring off into middle-distance, instead. As ever¹, I had music playing on my headphones — and yet I could not, for the life of me, tell you what was playing. It was some medley of same-y tracks that Spotify had decided I should listen to that day, all mushing together with no intentionality or progression.