Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

@ShugoWah@snouts.online burnout can make the things you enjoy feel like trying to jog through waist-deep mud

it also gets worse by trying to spend your willpower to get over it

two ways out of it are either to recognize that you have burnt out, and to allow yourself to do other things until inspiration sparks again, or to trick your brain into getting over the inertia, and to limit how much willpower you use when you are working on something (that's why tricks work for me, actually)

@ShugoWah@snouts.online thing is, i know that it totally sucks to want to *want* to do things, especially when those things are largely the actions you describe yourself with--but motivation is like a wave that rises and falls

some days, (or maybe lots of days) you might not feel it. and actually, in your case, it kinda sounds like burnout--which is a nifty little affliction that actually can happen by simply worrying about not doing enough

luckily, recognizing it for what it is can actually help you out!

@ShugoWah@snouts.online i have to trick my dumb brain into doing things all the time, because otherwise i either burn out, or can't for the life of me get started

two things that seem to help me are the pomodoro technique and permissive streaks (basically streaks, with allowances to skip days according to well-defined rules)

i also find that organizing things into a kanban helps overcome the resistance when you finish a thing and don't know what to do next

maybe you can find tricks that help you too..?

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz aww, look at that cutie..!

a roguelike where all the enemies are kanji

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz mood

perhaps i'll clean it up and put it on github later

the server basically just hosts a wanikani.ics file that accepts a parameter that is your API token. that way you can add it to your calendars and get notifications about reviews when they pile up

anyway, for reals this time, sleep!

i say that, but...

actually, why am i writing this at 2:30AM? i should go to bed

turns out, getting the next date isn't too hard!

i mean, i made this harder for myself than i should have, but this can now run with practically zero resources

i wonder how hard it would be to make a server that would spit out my wanikani reviews as an iCal file?

that way i could sync google calendar with all the times i'll have at least 50 reviews

i guess i shouldn't worry too much about that, because i really shouldn't tire myself out trying to become friends with someone who doesn't share the same thoughts

i think i'll just set a hard limit for how many times i try to talk to someone before i decide it's worth interacting with them. that way i won't impose for too long, and i won't need to worry about being a consistent pain in someone's side!

i guess this goes pretty squarely into my whole rule of not imposing when possible

but i do wonder if i ever see someone else's standoffish behavior as my own fault and then just disappear for no reason?

huh

i seem to do this thing where if i think i've bothered someone, if they aren't obviously close, i'll just ghost them forever--no matter how much i want to get to know them

it makes sense to my brain for some reason that this is a reasonable penance for annoying anyone ever

even though this is pretty harsh, i wonder if it's at all appreciated? i mean, nobody would likely notice one less hovering presence, would they? and if they did, would they be happy about it?

@LongLevy ohhh, that's what you meant

and yeah, if you write a page and then format it nicely later, it does kinda blow that you might need to add some CSS to make it look the same

@LongLevy wait, why does it do that..?

aren't newlines in html content just rendered as a space, making trailing whitespace redundant?