I set up 2 new lists on twitter.com,
Cognitive Biases
Prediction bias - This is were you remember correct predictions better than you remember incorrect predictions.
Overwhelmed - This is where if you have too many choices you choose nothing.
Oversold - If someone tells me how good a movie, book, TV show is I'm usually disappointed.
Stand Up
I've heard about the issue of sitting too much and somehow came across the following silly video. Now I'm not sure how true this is but it's probably worth investigating. At work I asked my boss if I could get one and she said I'd have to have a reason for it. When I said, "Like a doctors note?" she said "Yes."
The video said you shouldn't sit more than 3 - 4 hours a day but implied that if you got up for 10 minutes each hour that it would counteract the affects of sitting. If this doesn't scare you into not sitting.
Habits Book
I started reading a book on habits by Steve Scott on my KindleBring Bulletproof Coffee to work
Read Steve Scott Habit book called 23 Anti-Procrastination Habits. This book looks interesting and is top on my reading/doing list.
Cognitive Issue when you have too many decisions
Improve my flexibility
Plan you life there's not much time
Fake News Tell
I've been looking at how the MSM (Mainstream Media) pushes out fake news. To me, media should be unbiased and the tell of bias is calling President Trump, "Trump" or "Donald Trump."
There is so much speculation on Russia's influence on the election. I don't trust the MSM on this.
Work
At work I'm very busy, I made a mistake recently. I got an email from a user complaining/questioning data on a report. When I researched the problem I found what I thought was a discrepancy. I told the user that the data was wrong in an email that I sent out pretty late.
This was a big mistake as the data wasn't wrong and I pissed off a co-worker. At least he told me he was pissed off instead of being Passive Agressive.
I apologized and said that I was wrong, made a mistake in both email and over the phone. You have to be careful on what you send out. I did it because the data looked wrong and I felt I would be blamed for the problem.
I like the work I'm doing at least part of it. One problem is that I'm developing and doing wearing 2 hats. Deadlines keep coming up.
March Accomplishments
I would like to know my top n accomplishments in March were.- Ran for 21 minutes in 3 sets of 7 minutes
- Car Mileage is below lease allowance
- I got stuff done and work and still have a job
- I got my work goals out
March Failures
My weight has not dropped and my BMI is in the overweight range. I tried eating low calorie but failed.
My diet is sucky as I'm eating way too many protein bars.
I have a lack of friends at my new job (5 months now).
I sent out a slide with the word "Global" misspelled as "Glolbal"
Goals for April
I'm not sure what my goal for April should be? Maybe that should be my goal. To create a prioritized list of my goals.
People
Just watched below video with Alex Jones and Stefan Molyneux. I like Stefan. Alex Jones was too much into conspiracy theories so not a big fan, but he's joined the Trump Train.
I was recently watching a Mike Cernovich Periscope but couldn't finish it. I like Mike but he kept repeating himself over and over. I just couldn't watch it. He was on 60 Minutes recently and was pretty good.
I was listening to a Sam Harris podcast and I like Sam's work but he could lose the "anti-trump" bullshit. He might be right about him, but I rather he stick to his normal brain, atheist schtick. I wish he would debate or have one of the following on his show, Stefan Molyneux, Scott Adams or Mike Cernovich
I liked Cernovich on 60 Minutes who is Fake News.
I've watched a lot for Derren Brown videos. Derren is a magician that has amazing content.
Any of the following are good.
- Luck
- The Art Heist
- Betting on Horses
I bought one of his books and started reading it.
Pet Peeves
I've upgraded my computer at work to Office 2013 from 2007. It's been annoying getting use to it. Of course I will. There are little things like changing the color of the Outlook Icon from orange to blue. When I look for Outlook in my task bar I don't see it.
I also had a macro that warned me before I sent out emails that no longer works. None of my Quick Access toolbars were transferred and some software was removed for MODI, which is code to do optical character recognition.
Blogger annoys me as there's no shortcut key that I'm aware of that will allow me to quickly change something to a sub-header.
I use an http://e.ggtimer.com at work and I'd like a way to pop up a message when the timer expires.
Another problem I've been having is the inability to load picture to blogger. I did a little checking and couldn't figure out the reason.
Book Buying
Went to Strand Books on 13th street and Broadway in NYC. If you like books they have a big selection of low priced books. I've also been buying books and the discount store Unique.
I've run out of room in my book shelve. One thing came up was that I almost bought 2 books I already own, but since I've loaded most of my books on a website, I was able to check this.
I also take books out of the library that I almost never read. Some current books I have are:
- Adios, America by Ann Coulter
- Self-Hypnosis for Dummies
- The Procrastination Equation
- 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet
I had an idea that for every new book I buy I'd have to get rid of two books, but that was just an idea.
Lonely
I've been feeling a bit lonely. At work I don't have anyone to hang out with like I did at my previous position. At home, the kids are at college and wife sleeps in a different room. She watches TV in her room and I don't see much of her.
Messy
I continue to be messy. Mainly in garage, bedroom, family room even outside.
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