Jonathan Saggau's Blog

or... how I make my brain work more gooder*.

I've been known to fight foggy brain from time to time. You know what I mean? That decidedly uncool feeling of "can't do crap, too tired and dumb" that only seems to creep in when the to do list is longer than my ... um ... arm. Lately, though that feeling has struck me less and less often and I think I know why. I've lately zeroed - in on the right set of habits for me. Every now and again, I'll pick one of the topics below and write a short post expanding the topic. For now, though, just a list of things that work for me.

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Sent in an email recently.

Carburetor tuning:

Even when you're doing it right, anything you change in one system will often screw something up in another unexpectedly.

Sometimes starting over from a reasonable baseline is better than hammering away at a not-quite-right but oh-so-close-to-working plan.

Keeping track of what you've done makes it easier to get where you want to be, even if what you've done has sucked grapes.

...funny. Writing music works the same way, too... and so does writing code.

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