I lack the confidence in most things to teach myself (I guess I could teach people GMing?), so the impulse to record yourself explaining things is completely foreign to me!

I really admire people who set out to teach others something with no intent of making it a career or anything. I owe my entire professional life to people who make free tools and resources on the internet.

Only about, what 9 years behind on learning ES6, but in my defense, I am primarily a WordPress developer and I had a kid in 2014.

Here's a Non-Amazon link to the book if you want to check it out. We can be more productive without beating ourselves up. bookshop.org/p/books/feel...

Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You a book by Ali Abdaal

The secret to productivity isn't discipline. It's joy. We think that productivity is all about hard work. That the road to success is lined with endless frustration and toil. But what if there's anot...

Recently read a book called Feel-Good Productivity. It's got a lot of good tips and experiments in it. The one that I will probably take to heart most is, when I am blocked on something, asking myself "what could I change to make this fun?" Sometimes that's as simple as "put on some music."

Canceled my Friday night Wildsea game. I don't like canceling games that I GM, but I'm starting to learn that running a game I am not prepared for, on a Friday when I'm wiped out by a stressful week, doesn't really serve anyone's interests. Even us forever-GMs have to rest sometimes.

My 10 year old will pull that and other memes out on me and I'm always like:

Came home to find our gargoyle has made a new friend. I'm told his name is Timmy. He's really quite friendly.

In Australia, wombat hugs... you?

Same. Attractive young women with nothing in common with me (no posts, etc) following me on Bsky is pretty much always a block. I don't wanna feed the bot machine here.