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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. 


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:  
* Wake up, walk downtown and back, breakfast
* 2h Sophos, lunch, nap
* Up, 1h non-work work
* Free for social stuff and contemplating life


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.


She has a nostalgia for some aspects of the past, but doesn't want to go "all the way back".
This Week:
* Return exercise bike
* Gently address realistic discomfort at work
* Slowly enjoy and digest Built From Broken
* Skim and enjoy How To Listen So Kids Will Talk


She is enthusiastic about building bridges with women who disagree with her, but might need some help.


She may have a personal history of trauma with men, which fuels her interest in women's rights.
Current Priorities:
* Work: Assert myself, be physically ready for 2h focused work every day
* Health: Circadian Rhythm, Biomechanics, Better Blood
* Family & Kids: Create opportunities for listening and bonding
* Finance: Organize checking accounts, make unemployment plan (LOC)


=Health=


[[Cardiac]]


[[Nominal Aphasia]]


= History: How Does Change Happen?  What's Happening Next? =
[[Appt Notes]]


[[A History of Women, Gay People, and Gender-Diverse People in American Politics]]
[[Leg Pain]]


[[Side Trip: Aristasia]]
[[Gluteal Tendinopathy]]


= Current Events =
[[Metabolism]]


= Politics: Who's Doing What, and How You Can Help Them =
[[Supplements]]


=== [[Civics, Institutional Power, and Social Change]] ===
[[Inner Wellness]]


https://xkcd.com/1028/
==Food==


==== Understanding Institutional Capture ====
[[List of foods to remind me of variety]]


==== Nonpartisan Feminism ====
==Adaptive Devices==


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
[[Biomechanics and Movement]]


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.
[[Bunions]]


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.
===Home Environment===


This also goes for organizing for LGB people and gender-diverse people.
[[Active Sitting / Ergonomics]]


= Social Issues =
[[Sunlight Computer]]


Child Safeguarding
==Misc==


Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence
[[Airway]]


Commercial Sexual Exploitation
[[Leaky Gut]]


==Women's Status:==
=Better Blood=


In Public Spaces
[[Legal Justice]]


In the Workplace
[[Better Blood]]


Financial Status
=FinOps=


Public Leadership
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.


Church
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.


== Compassion Topics ==
John Grubb


[[Abortion]]
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.


[[Saving Democracy]]
https://www.ignoredbydinosaurs.com/posts/success


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


= [[Personal Strength]] =
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 -


== Mindfulness ==
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.


== Behavioral Health and Good Habits ==
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.


THESE - Temperature, Hydration, Eating, Sleeping, Exercise


I made up this acronym during a time when I was *not* doing well, and I'm still proud of it.


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.




=== My checklist ===


First, I go through the THESE checklist:
=from Reddit =


'''Temperature''': Is it too warm or cold where I am? 
Its not that they hate recommendations, its that you have an opportunity to uplevel yourself and your skills - and it sounds like you really haven't taken it. Managing costs is one bucket of discipline. However, if we're truly measuring money, you have an opportunity to learn how to measure, execute and track on "opportunity cost".


'''Hydration''': Do I need a glass of water, other beverage, or watery food? 
Sure the engineering team can execute on recommendations to reduce recurring running costs. It is fiscally prudent and responsible in a vacuum. At the same time, features or revenue growth initiatives can be orders of magnitude more valuable than executing on cost reduction opportunities. If engineering allocates the time and resources (money) to reduce a recurring cost, it is at the expense of:


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.
The opportunity cost of not working on those other revenue growth initiatives.
The break-even return value of the recommendation (remember they've got to invest time to execute).
Here is the kicker for you - if you possess the skills to craft a single total ROI message in consideration of the two points above ; then you will naturally drop a chunk of your recommendations. The numbers will say its fiscally irresponsible to be investing on your existing "FinOps recommendations". At the same time, the recommendations you bring forward will generally have a high uptake rate because the break-even value is near term (weeks/days or yesterday) - or the opportunity cost of everything else is worse than missing out on those recurring savings. In the AWS-land, that usually centers around logging and CloudWatch usage where you can quickly realize 90% cost reductions in the magnitudes of hundreds of thousands with a break-even in less than 1 month.


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.
If you can do that - you'll have the foundations to compete for a CFO position within your career. If you cant - you will forever be relegated to the finance controller minion who will struggle to get their recommendations adopted by the other organizations. In the off-chance you make a CFO role, a fiscally responsible board will remove you when your aim is to save peanuts at the expense of missing out on acquiring a large customer base.


There is a melon that contains a lot of water.  I'll leave it to you to guess which melon it is.
An analogy would be a hotel offering food services (breakfasts, lunches, dinners). There is a ton of food waste (possibly quite literally a ton).


'''Eating''': Have I eaten a moderate amount of healthy food today?
Can they optimize? Yes.
Should they optimize for responsibility to society? Yes.
Should they do it fiscally? No.
Why? The revenue comes in from selling the room. The spoilage is fiscally insignificant. It is fiscally irresponsible for the company to invest in that waste reduction.


'''Sleeping''': Have I slept enough?
=Finance =


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


== Boundaries and "Winning Therapy" ==
=Sparkle House=


== Trauma Healing ==
[[Sparkle House]]


== Physical Health ==
=Style & Grooming=


[[Healthy Skincare: Sunscreen, Makeup, Soap]]
[[Style & Grooming]]


[[Health Tips For Fat Ladies]]
=Friends=


== Financial Health ==
[[Friends]]


=== [[Low-Effort Backyard Gardening in Central Florida]] ===
=Writing=


== Social Health ==
[[The Householders]]


== Spiritual Health ==
[[The View From Sunshine City]]


[[Other Writing]]


[[Temp Link]]
Interview w JK Rowling: https://web.archive.org/web/20080623145514/www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/books/author/interview2.htm
 
= [[Faith and Theology]] =
 
[[Women and the Major World Religions]]
 
[[Commentary on the Divine Feminine from the Major World Religions]]
 
[[Perennialism]]
 
[[Prehistoric Religion]]
 
[[Deanism and Filianism]]
 
[[An Atheist Lesbian Desister's Favorite Catholic Takes on Gender Ideology]]
 
ebony.clayton@yahoo.com - interview her!

Latest revision as of 01:08, 1 November 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?


Daily:

  • Wake up, walk downtown and back, breakfast
  • 2h Sophos, lunch, nap
  • Up, 1h non-work work
  • Free for social stuff and contemplating life


This Week:

  • Return exercise bike
  • Gently address realistic discomfort at work
  • Slowly enjoy and digest Built From Broken
  • Skim and enjoy How To Listen So Kids Will Talk


Current Priorities:

  • Work: Assert myself, be physically ready for 2h focused work every day
  • Health: Circadian Rhythm, Biomechanics, Better Blood
  • Family & Kids: Create opportunities for listening and bonding
  • Finance: Organize checking accounts, make unemployment plan (LOC)

Health

Cardiac

Nominal Aphasia

Appt Notes

Leg Pain

Gluteal Tendinopathy

Metabolism

Supplements

Inner Wellness

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.




from Reddit

Its not that they hate recommendations, its that you have an opportunity to uplevel yourself and your skills - and it sounds like you really haven't taken it. Managing costs is one bucket of discipline. However, if we're truly measuring money, you have an opportunity to learn how to measure, execute and track on "opportunity cost".

Sure the engineering team can execute on recommendations to reduce recurring running costs. It is fiscally prudent and responsible in a vacuum. At the same time, features or revenue growth initiatives can be orders of magnitude more valuable than executing on cost reduction opportunities. If engineering allocates the time and resources (money) to reduce a recurring cost, it is at the expense of:

The opportunity cost of not working on those other revenue growth initiatives. The break-even return value of the recommendation (remember they've got to invest time to execute). Here is the kicker for you - if you possess the skills to craft a single total ROI message in consideration of the two points above ; then you will naturally drop a chunk of your recommendations. The numbers will say its fiscally irresponsible to be investing on your existing "FinOps recommendations". At the same time, the recommendations you bring forward will generally have a high uptake rate because the break-even value is near term (weeks/days or yesterday) - or the opportunity cost of everything else is worse than missing out on those recurring savings. In the AWS-land, that usually centers around logging and CloudWatch usage where you can quickly realize 90% cost reductions in the magnitudes of hundreds of thousands with a break-even in less than 1 month.

If you can do that - you'll have the foundations to compete for a CFO position within your career. If you cant - you will forever be relegated to the finance controller minion who will struggle to get their recommendations adopted by the other organizations. In the off-chance you make a CFO role, a fiscally responsible board will remove you when your aim is to save peanuts at the expense of missing out on acquiring a large customer base.

An analogy would be a hotel offering food services (breakfasts, lunches, dinners). There is a ton of food waste (possibly quite literally a ton).

Can they optimize? Yes. Should they optimize for responsibility to society? Yes. Should they do it fiscally? No. Why? The revenue comes in from selling the room. The spoilage is fiscally insignificant. It is fiscally irresponsible for the company to invest in that waste reduction.

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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