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"An Energetic Afternoon: Productivity and Creativity Fueled by Change of Environment"

Jan 13, 2024 - 4:00pmSummary: I had an energetic afternoon which started with a bike ride to an unnamed café near the university for espresso. Spending time mostly outdoors, I worked with two notebooks and my iPad, realizing that the lack of a traditional computer and a change of environment encouraged different styles of thinking. This alternative thinking helped me make progress towards creating something akin to a pitch deck. Afterward, I went for another bike ride to channel my excess energy and am now planning my weekend, focusing on preparing for the upcoming week rather than working intensively.

Transcript: A nice little afternoon for myself, a lot of energy today. Again, um, I left my house around 12 and went on a bike ride to go get some espresso from, I forget the name of this place, um, somewhere off of the university. Um, it was a nice, like kind of chill place. Spent my time mostly outside and just brought two notebooks and my iPad. And it's amazing to me that how not having a computer, a real computer forces me to do other kinds of thinking and how putting myself in a different space also forces me to do different kinds of thinking. And I think I made a bit of progress generally speaking on, well, getting closer to something like a pitch deck. Um, and yeah, I don't know. It was nice to just be in a new space to be able to think in a kind of different way, um, curious to keep exploring some new places, but I also am very curious. Well, rather I went on a bike ride after that and just to get energy out. Cause I had so much energy just coursing through me that I needed to just move it around. So I went for a bike ride and that was really great just to kind of enjoy and slow back down and also just reflect on the afternoon and it was nice. And now I'm home, I've come up with a bunch of things that I need to do this weekend, basically getting myself set up for next week and not worrying about needing to grind on anything, but instead, um, yeah, just getting things set up, what am I going to eat? Um, what, yeah, just any, anything. So I'm going to do that cause my brain is clearly faltering here, but yeah.

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