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= The Media Project =
My forties (and the tail end of my thirties) are for practical things, for building core memories with family and friends, and for building a sense of home.  Let creativity be a small part of it.


I probably won't name it "Gynergy".  I just had the URL.  But maybe I will?
=To Do=


I read in a book on branding that your "target customer" should be extremely specific.  Most of your customers will not have all of the traits of your target customer, but they will have some of the traits.
When you don’t have a realistic plan, you end up working inefficiently, which means you end up overworking.


The target reader is a college-educated Millennial woman. 
What are all the ways I am overworking?


She may be a liberal-leaning woman who is "peaked" or "peaking", or she may be a conservative-leaning woman who is frustrated by some aspects of conservative leadership. 
=Routine=


She is passionate about women's rights, but troubled by certain behaviors of feminist organizations: the aggressive push for inclusion of trans-identified males, and the promotion of sex work and hookup culture.  She also has reservations about conservative leadership in regard to women's rights.
Daily:
* 9am Wake up, bathroom, light breakfast, walk to water and back
* 10:30am 2h Sophos, some seated and some floor, with exercises
* 1pm Lunch, nap
* 2:30pm Tea, 2h other stuff
* 5:30pm Free for friends, etc


She is intellectually curious, a deep thinker, and inclined to spirituality.  She may have a complicated relationship with her church of origin, whether or not she is still a member of the church.
Weekday Stuff: Always includes time for gentle thinking on the topic.
* Monday: Gentle IFS and exploring tools for scrolling behavior
* Tuesday and Wednesday: Health and Patient Advocacy People
* Thursday: FinOps People, Idealist Tech Career People, or Budgeting
* Friday: ModCon Women’s Group


She has a nostalgia for some aspects of the past, but doesn't want to go "all the way back".
Weekends Only:
* Weekend time only: Writing my short story or my politics timeline project


She is enthusiastic about building bridges with women who disagree with her, but might need some help.
==This Month: Do Things Moderately :) ==


She may have a personal history of trauma with men, which fuels her interest in women's rights.
Consistently show up 2h/day at Sophos (time/effort)


Find comfortable adaptations and correct biomechanics for mildly wearing out my muscles (time/effort)


Learn about bunion health and try different shoes


Get into a turkey burger routine (time/effort)


= History: How Does Change Happen?  What's Happening Next? =
Get into a comfortable and convenient vegetable routine


[[A History of Women, Gay People, and Gender-Diverse People in American Politics]]
Seek support for internet scrolling issue


[[Side Trip: Aristasia]]
Go to St. Pete Pier Pumpkin Patch and Gallagher’s Pumpkins & Christmas Trees


= Current Events =
===Next…===


= Politics: Who's Doing What, and How You Can Help Them =
Do Phillips heart monitor


=== [[Civics, Institutional Power, and Social Change]] ===
Do mail in labs


https://xkcd.com/1028/
Pursue imaging for my ankle


==== Understanding Institutional Capture ====
Listen to a couple chapters of IFS book (time/effort)


==== Nonpartisan Feminism ====
Interview two lawyers (time/effort)


Most of the ideas in here come from / were heavily inspired by Natasha Chart's book, Practical Politics for Bold Women.  Buy it here! - https://chartconsulting.samcart.com/products/practical-politics-for-bold-women
Clear out guest bedroom for Mom; switch bed and treadmill (time/effort)


What is the solution to capture of feminism by the left, and the possibility of future capture of women's organizations by the right?  I think the best defense is small, fiercely independent women's organizations that know how to collaborate across ideological lines, but also are structured so that they can withdraw support, without incurring damage, when their needs are no longer being met by an old coalition.
Do first ModCon women’s meetup (time/effort)


Whatever network you are part of, they should feel like they have to be on their toes a little bit, because if they no longer hold up their end of the bargain, women's groups can walk away.
Go to comedy night (time/effort)


This also goes for organizing for LGB people and gender-diverse people.
Find source to buy zucchini / summer squash seeds


= Social Issues =
==Next Month==


Child Safeguarding
Stabilize my health habits


Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence
Deepen in Biomechanics


Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Pursue advanced medical care


==Women's Status:==
Run ModCon women’s group


In Public Spaces
Lose a lot of weight (effort)


In the Workplace
Get pretty good at FinOps


Financial Status
Get house set up for housemate


Public Leadership
Pursue justice


Church
See Ocala family on holidays


Do some art and post it on social media


==Don’t Overwork: Don’t Spend Effort On These Now==


== Compassion Topics ==
After stabilizing at Sophos, pursuing justice, and getting house set up: Become a decent thing doer for a few lawyers or doctors


[[Abortion]]
=Health=


[[Saving Democracy]]
[[Cardiac]]


[[How Are Women And Men The Same, And How Are We Different?]]
[[Nominal Aphasia]]


= [[Personal Strength]] =
[[Appt Notes]]


== Mindfulness ==
[[Leg Pain]]


== Behavioral Health and Good Habits ==
[[Gluteal Tendinopathy]]


THESE - Temperature, Hydration, Eating, Sleeping, Exercise
==Inner Wellness==


I made up this acronym during a time when I was *not* doing well, and I'm still proud of it.
===Summary of Jay Earley’s Book Self-Therapy===


Originally I used THESE BFUP, where THESE is physical stuff and BFUP is higher-level stuff.  BFUP is Belonging, Fun, Unwinding, and Purpose.  It's supposed to be pronounced "beef up", as in "These beef up your health and wellness!"  I decided it was more memorable just as THESE.
Contains a step-by-step guide to self-contained IFS.


https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR9CIuxT_RLaDGIn_iE_75y9bgit58mGAGPtDixpdEcrsSPbE7IemgfJ8f9KT275Q/pub


=== My checklist ===
===Integral Guide===


First, I go through the THESE checklist:  
https://integralguide.com/About


'''Temperature''': Is it too warm or cold where I am? 
“ The Integral Guide is a choose-your-own-adventure field guide that I began writing to aid my personal trauma recovery and self-development and to feel empowered and better-equipped to lead an enriched life.”


'''Hydration''': Do I need a glass of water, other beverage, or watery food? 
===Loving Awakening===
https://lovingawakening.net/
A Practical Guide to Embodied Spirituality and Healing with Metta, IFS, the Imaginal and Community


I like water, but if you don't, you don't have to drink water.  There's nothing magical about water that exists in a glass by itself.  The water in diet root beer is the same water.  Just watch out for sugar and caffeine.
Two free books.  Author says in the FAQ that she offers services if you contact her; I assume these are paid services.  I have not read the books and can't vouch for them.


You can also get water from eating fruit, but that's a slippery slope, because the water in the fruit is also used by your body to help digest the fruit, so you're getting less for hydration. 
==Food==


There is a melon that contains a lot of water.  I'll leave it to you to guess which melon it is.
[[List of foods to remind me of variety]]


'''Eating''': Have I eaten a moderate amount of healthy food today?
==Adaptive Devices==


'''Sleeping''': Have I slept enough?
[[Biomechanics and Movement]]


'''Exercise''': Have I gone on a nice walk, done some yoga, gone on a fun bike ride?
[[Bunions]]


== Boundaries and "Winning Therapy" ==
===Home Environment===


== Trauma Healing ==
[[Active Sitting / Ergonomics]]


== Physical Health ==
[[Sunlight Computer]]


[[Healthy Skincare: Sunscreen, Makeup, Soap]]
==Misc==


[[Health Tips For Fat Ladies]]
[[Airway]]


== Financial Health ==
[[Leaky Gut]]


=== [[Low-Effort Backyard Gardening in Central Florida]] ===
=Better Blood=


== Social Health ==
[[Legal Justice]]


== Spiritual Health ==
[[Better Blood]]


=FinOps=


[[Temp Link]]
Once I am at the next level in my career and highly employable, explore routes to land jobs at places that satisfy the political do-gooder side of myself, and that offers me the same pay, benefits, and career security as private industry.  This is a moonshot: the one that makes sense for me to do.


= [[Faith and Theology]] =
Life is short and hard even for the most fortunate of us. And that’s why, whatever you have chosen to work on, it has to be worthy of your time here. Because if you have any success at all, it will take up at least a decade of your life. And if you’re really lucky, you get to work on it for multiple decades.


[[Women and the Major World Religions]]
I stopped by Austin for the FinOpsX conference, an amazing little thing put on by … maybe the Linux Foundation through some other community community, idk.


[[Commentary on the Divine Feminine from the Major World Religions]]
Anyway, it was really amazing. Open source is just so much fun, I’m really glad that I found it all those years ago. This conference was smallish, like 400 people, but had all the open source vibes that the Drupal scene had back in the day, or the Python scene had the only time I dipped my toes in a few years back.


[[Perennialism]]
John Grubb


[[Prehistoric Religion]]
Whatever you need to help you feel successful is helpful to get you to the place of being successful, as long as you don’t confuse it with success itself.


[[Deanism and Filianism]]
https://www.ignoredbydinosaurs.com/posts/success


[[An Atheist Lesbian Desister's Favorite Catholic Takes on Gender Ideology]]
I work with a guy. He’s incredibly smart. He’s the seniormost developer here, and if you need to learn something new and get something large done, he’s the guy to do it. We basically dropped him off in the AWS jungle and told him to learn Hadoop and the entire Hadoop ecosystem for a data warehouse project and he did it.


ebony.clayton@yahoo.com - interview her!
I work with another guy. He’s also incredibly smart. But he asks me for the answer before attempting to find it on his own more often than not. He’s got a point when he says “it’s a lot faster for me to just ask you rather than spend time trying to find it on my own”, because he’s here to do a job after all. I get that. But the best analogy I can come up with is a spin on the old adage -
 
You can give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. You can teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
 
There’s a third kind of person, though - the person who goes out and finds out about fishing on their own and then teaches themselves how to fish. This person will be your boss, and will always be employed.
 
=Finance =
 
[[Finance]]
 
=Sparkle House=
 
[[Sparkle House]]
 
=Style & Grooming=
 
[[Style & Grooming]]
 
=Friends=
 
[[Friends]]
 
=Writing=
 
[[The Householders]]
 
[[The View From Sunshine City]]
 
[[Other Writing]]
 
Interview w JK Rowling: https://web.archive.org/web/20080623145514/www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/books/author/interview2.htm

Latest revision as of 01:59, 18 October 2025

My forties (and the tail end of my thirties) are for practical things, for building core memories with family and friends, and for building a sense of home. Let creativity be a small part of it.

To Do

When you don’t have a realistic plan, you end up working inefficiently, which means you end up overworking.

What are all the ways I am overworking?

Routine

Daily:

  • 9am Wake up, bathroom, light breakfast, walk to water and back
  • 10:30am 2h Sophos, some seated and some floor, with exercises
  • 1pm Lunch, nap
  • 2:30pm Tea, 2h other stuff
  • 5:30pm Free for friends, etc

Weekday Stuff: Always includes time for gentle thinking on the topic.

  • Monday: Gentle IFS and exploring tools for scrolling behavior
  • Tuesday and Wednesday: Health and Patient Advocacy People
  • Thursday: FinOps People, Idealist Tech Career People, or Budgeting
  • Friday: ModCon Women’s Group

Weekends Only:

  • Weekend time only: Writing my short story or my politics timeline project

This Month: Do Things Moderately :)

Consistently show up 2h/day at Sophos (time/effort)

Find comfortable adaptations and correct biomechanics for mildly wearing out my muscles (time/effort)

Learn about bunion health and try different shoes

Get into a turkey burger routine (time/effort)

Get into a comfortable and convenient vegetable routine

Seek support for internet scrolling issue

Go to St. Pete Pier Pumpkin Patch and Gallagher’s Pumpkins & Christmas Trees

Next…

Do Phillips heart monitor

Do mail in labs

Pursue imaging for my ankle

Listen to a couple chapters of IFS book (time/effort)

Interview two lawyers (time/effort)

Clear out guest bedroom for Mom; switch bed and treadmill (time/effort)

Do first ModCon women’s meetup (time/effort)

Go to comedy night (time/effort)

Find source to buy zucchini / summer squash seeds

Next Month

Stabilize my health habits

Deepen in Biomechanics

Pursue advanced medical care

Run ModCon women’s group

Lose a lot of weight (effort)

Get pretty good at FinOps

Get house set up for housemate

Pursue justice

See Ocala family on holidays

Do some art and post it on social media

Don’t Overwork: Don’t Spend Effort On These Now

After stabilizing at Sophos, pursuing justice, and getting house set up: Become a decent thing doer for a few lawyers or doctors

Health

Cardiac

Nominal Aphasia

Appt Notes

Leg Pain

Gluteal Tendinopathy

Inner Wellness

Summary of Jay Earley’s Book Self-Therapy

Contains a step-by-step guide to self-contained IFS.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR9CIuxT_RLaDGIn_iE_75y9bgit58mGAGPtDixpdEcrsSPbE7IemgfJ8f9KT275Q/pub

Integral Guide

https://integralguide.com/About

“ The Integral Guide is a choose-your-own-adventure field guide that I began writing to aid my personal trauma recovery and self-development and to feel empowered and better-equipped to lead an enriched life.”

Loving Awakening

https://lovingawakening.net/ A Practical Guide to Embodied Spirituality and Healing with Metta, IFS, the Imaginal and Community

Two free books. Author says in the FAQ that she offers services if you contact her; I assume these are paid services. I have not read the books and can't vouch for them.

Food

List of foods to remind me of variety

Adaptive Devices

Biomechanics and Movement

Bunions

Home Environment

Active Sitting / Ergonomics

Sunlight Computer

Misc

Airway

Leaky Gut

Better Blood

Legal Justice

Better Blood

FinOps

Once I am at the next level in my career and highly employable, explore routes to land jobs at places that satisfy the political do-gooder side of myself, and that offers me the same pay, benefits, and career security as private industry. This is a moonshot: the one that makes sense for me to do.

Life is short and hard even for the most fortunate of us. And that’s why, whatever you have chosen to work on, it has to be worthy of your time here. Because if you have any success at all, it will take up at least a decade of your life. And if you’re really lucky, you get to work on it for multiple decades.

I stopped by Austin for the FinOpsX conference, an amazing little thing put on by … maybe the Linux Foundation through some other community community, idk.

Anyway, it was really amazing. Open source is just so much fun, I’m really glad that I found it all those years ago. This conference was smallish, like 400 people, but had all the open source vibes that the Drupal scene had back in the day, or the Python scene had the only time I dipped my toes in a few years back.

John Grubb

Whatever you need to help you feel successful is helpful to get you to the place of being successful, as long as you don’t confuse it with success itself.

https://www.ignoredbydinosaurs.com/posts/success

I work with a guy. He’s incredibly smart. He’s the seniormost developer here, and if you need to learn something new and get something large done, he’s the guy to do it. We basically dropped him off in the AWS jungle and told him to learn Hadoop and the entire Hadoop ecosystem for a data warehouse project and he did it.

I work with another guy. He’s also incredibly smart. But he asks me for the answer before attempting to find it on his own more often than not. He’s got a point when he says “it’s a lot faster for me to just ask you rather than spend time trying to find it on my own”, because he’s here to do a job after all. I get that. But the best analogy I can come up with is a spin on the old adage -

You can give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. You can teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.

There’s a third kind of person, though - the person who goes out and finds out about fishing on their own and then teaches themselves how to fish. This person will be your boss, and will always be employed.

Finance

Finance

Sparkle House

Sparkle House

Style & Grooming

Style & Grooming

Friends

Friends

Writing

The Householders

The View From Sunshine City

Other Writing

Interview w JK Rowling: https://web.archive.org/web/20080623145514/www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/books/author/interview2.htm

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