Tag: challenges
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First Doctor Visit in Five Years
I went to the doctor today. It was just the intake appointment for One Medical, which is like a Genius Bar for medicine, and is included in my health plan (membership is normally $199/yr). But even before my first appointment I’m already spiraling… I started by looking up how to prepare for a doctor visit…
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Social Media Dark Mode
We know social media is bad for society but we use it anyway. As much as I love connecting with people, doing so in an environment that is actively harmful feels like too high a price. How should a person exist online? That is the question I put to my shareholders in April of 2022.…
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November Challenge: Strangers
With 36% support, a clear example of why need to update the weejee voting system, the shareholders have endorsed the idea of reaching out to strangers this month. 📧 Reach Out to a Stranger – I was thinking how great it was to meet so many people at the talk in Vienna and wondered if…
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July Challenge: Track Spending
The July Challenge was Record and Share Every Purchase which won at 33% support over “read five books” (21%) and “Go to a different LA Neighborhood every day” (15%)… so I made a spreadsheet. Then Lillian did her livestream where she talked about her finances and so I kind of invited myself on as a…
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June Challenge: Wake Up At 5am
The June challenge was almost over, with the majority of votes going to “Keep fresh flowers in the house.” I was excited, Kathryn was excited, and I was already looking up the public hours for the flower market when suddenly Josh came in and ruined the whole thing. He tipped the vote to “Wake up…
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May Challenge: New Place Each Week
For the month of May the shareholders set a challenge of going to a new place each week*. This was a great challenge for coming out of the pandemic restrictions and pushing me to new routes and businesses. New Places Visited: Wittmore Store – Arts District I didn’t buy anything but I was in the…
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March Challenge: Sleep
I put up a vote on February 28th, 2021 with the option of undertaking a challenge for the month of March. The options and the results were as follows: (As shareholder Hubbard pointed out in the comments, we should be using ranked voting for these kinds of decisions.) I’m excited for the “challenge” of getting…
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Biking 50 States in Los Angeles
During the Stay-At-Home order I’ve been banned from going to the gym, so I’ve been biking more. Pre-pandemic I was only biking around 40 miles a week but in making it my primary form of exercise I’m doing over a hundred. To try to explore new parts of Los Angeles I created the 50 States…
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Drink Tracking
I was definitely drinking too much the first few weeks of the stay-at-home order, but it wasn’t really a problem. I rarely felt the effects the next day and I didn’t start until at least 5pm. On the other hand, alcohol is poison, and as a publicly traded person there are health implications to having…
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Nail Biting: Day 4
The vote to paint my nails this coral/orange color passed on the 10th of April and Kathryn painted my nails the approved color on the 11th. It’s been four days and I have not had a single instance of nail biting. So far so good.
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13 Drugs I Have Tried and What I Think About Them
A list of the drugs I have tried listed in order of my preference for doing them. As a capitalist I tend to like uppers for productivity, alcohol for negotiations and team building, and psychedelics for thinking of innovative new business strategies (the blue ocean strategy was originally conceived of by W. Chan Kim and…
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Capitalism Weight Loss Program
Based on a shareholder proposal to incentivize my weight loss using a share buyback program as a financial penalty here is the plan to manage my weight and health. There is old adage that “abs are make in the kitchen, not the gym.” The CDC says that effective long term weight loss though happens at…