DEBUGGING TOOLS FOR THE BRAIN Why let the mind function like old legacy software? CFAR has developed exercises to help identify and fix bad mental habits. ROUTINE-TASK ESTIMATES How to optimize daily activities to save time. Pick an activity you engage in frequently (brushing your teeth, washing the dishes). How long does the activity take you each day? Over the next 10 years, you will spend ___ on your activity. Think about how you can do it faster. How many minutes would it take you then?
“The Happiness Code” - The New York Times Magazine
Please, add up all the time I’ve spent staring at the hairs lining your jaw, the ones that make the roundness of your wide face so alluring in the yellow light bounced off the palm. Aggregate the seconds into years I’ll spend placing my fingers between your thumb and index, which really is the time I take wishing I could be the knife that cuts the flowing water of your anxiety, your endless need to move, to twitch, to rub and touch when I only pray for calm for you.
Quantify, in mass, the mound of sand the minutes make while I wait for you, which I hardly ever mind, imagining you out there, part pilot and half tumbleweed of ambition, friendship, fate, the city we have spread across like spores, then husk, then spores, then sleep, together. Measure out the passage of time I’ve loved you unproductively, compare it to the distance that’s between our knowing selves, and wonder what sized infinity is the remainder.
