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I Figured Out Arm Aiming
Did they tai chi method I mentioned in the previous post. Went really slow and relaxed.
I noticed that there is a natural way to aim.
Here are the steps:
- Get into the mood my swishing the mouse across the screen in broad strokes
- Slow down and control the movement more
- Focus on pivoting on your wrist
- First focus on your elbow moving close and far away from your body
- Then focus on the micro adjust aim with your wrist
Voila! Amazing pain free aim!
Tactics For Sleeping In A Hotel Room
I love love love traveling but one thing I cannot stand is sleeping well in hotels.
Hotels rooms always feel:
- Too stuffy somehow, not enough circulation (I hate that you cannot open the window)
- Too cold
- The mattress doesn’t feel firm enough
- Blankets aren’t soft or warm and fluffy (they are thin and scratchy)
I strategized last night to get the best nights sleep and here are the things I did:
- Ate dinner in the lobby where the air circulation was better and feels like more fresh oxygen
- Turn the heat up as high as it would go (78 degrees F)
- Made the bed as comfortable as possible moving the blankets and pillows around to create a nice nest
- Took a shower, then went back down to the lobby to unwind
- Feel asleep in the lobby then went back to the room to sleep
I feel like this actually was a REALLY good routine but I didn’t sleep well because the spicy wings I ate the day before made my stomach uncomfortable. I’m going to try to see if tonight I can fall asleep like in a coma.

The Bedtime Challenge
Sleep has always been the beast I had to conquer.
Ever since I left my house and went off to college, it has been increasingly hard to go to bed on time.
It’s killing me. I don’t recover from workouts, my mind is foggy, and my memory mists away. My moods feel erratic and neurotic. Energy during the day is a thing of the past.
And yet I cannot stop.
2 am, 3 am, 4 am, 5 am. I keep going to bed late. And sometimes later and later.
I tried so many times to go to be at a reasonable time. I try for a few days, and then I relapse. But we aren’t giving up. We are trying it one more time.
And I didn’t do it alone. My good friend Edgar gave me this kick in the butt:
So what is my gameplan this time? How am I going to succeed when I failed so many times before?
A couple of things:
- I will not try to control how much sleep I get
- I will not try to control my screen habits
- I will not control anything but one single factor, which is my bedtime
- At the same time, I will figure out what needs I am meeting by going to bed late and how to meet those needs earlier in the day
- I will commit to this bedtime long enough to form a habit
I made a list of reasons why I love staying up late at night:
- Completely alone
- Lots of time – no rush
- Sense of accomplishment (if I feel I haven’t accomplished anything yet it gives me more time to get things done)
- Consume art
- Nighttime magical vibes
- Dread of the next day
- More time to eat and digest
I realized that not sleeping is incredibly compelling to me. It is far more challenging for me to go to sleep on time than most people. So as a result, I need to keep it simple. Bedtime at 11 PM for the next 66 days, no exceptions. The challenge will end on December 12th. I am two days into this challenge already.
What does this mean?
- I can eat right before bed
- I can watch videos in my bed after 11
- I can get back up, stretch if I cannot fall asleep, then go back to bed
- I can toss and turn at 11
- I can get up at 6 am if I have work that needs to be done but I don’t have the time to finish it
In the meantime, in an attempt to meet all my needs before bed:
- I will silence notifications and try to find some alone time every day
- I will work to identify a task that is feasible to do and will give me a strong sense of accomplishment every day
- I will try to get this done early so that I will have larger open times during the day where I don’t feel rushed
- I will pursue more art and magical vibes
- I will try to leave gifts for myself the next day so I have positive anticipation(ex: a clean empty sink, plans for something fun)
- I will try to eat at 8 pm at the latest so I have time to digest before 11
In terms of how to structure the next 66 days, I have not decided yet, but perhaps I will try to focus on each of the needs and strategies every week.
Some additional strategies/thoughts:
- Turning off all the lights
- Melatonin gummies
So far, finding a way to feel accomplished/ready for the next day has been a game-changer in wanting to go to sleep. Also, it is easier to go to sleep when bedtime is a hard boundary that is very strict and everything else is quite relaxed (I can still get less sleep and wake up super earlier if I feel I’m not prepared for the next day, I don’t have to go to sleep as long as I’m in bed). Nothing is tempting as a valid excuse/difficult decision anymore.
So tentatively I feel this time will be different. My hope is that after 66 days, I will no longer have to try to go to bed at 11, it will just be automatic, and I will start to cherish my sleep and life in general!
Additional Thoughts on Affirmative Action and Personal Decision Making
The types of biases:
1. Cognitive Dissonance
2. Spotlight Effect
3. Anchoring Effect
4. The Halo Effect
5. Gambler’s Fallacy
6. Contrast Effect
7. Confirmation Bias
8. Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon
9. Zeigarnik Effect
10. Paradox of Choice
More biases:
11. Survivorship Bias
12. Self Serving Bias
13. Fundamental Attribution Error
14. Hindsight Bias
15. Availability Bias
16. Availability Cascade
17. Sunk Cost Fallacy
18. Framing Effect
19. Clustering Illusion
20. Exponential Growth
21. Barnum Effect
Ideas for these biases:
- Create a selection process (for college, group or job)
- Use for cold hard thinking areas (stocks)
- Use in logic games (Valorant, Chess)
- Take advantage of bias to do careful marketing
Sales Conference Health 4: Neck, Shoulder and Chest Relief
I’ve been seeking a way to relieve the tension built up from sitting at the computer all day working and gaming by releasing the fascia in the neck, shoulders, and chest.
These are the most helpful so far:
Valorant Challenge 1: Spike Rush Cypher
Today I didn’t have the time or the pc to play competitively. I played a couple of spike rush games as cypher.
Impressions:
- Hot damn it’s hard to play cypher. So much to put down in so little time. The cages are HARD to use as well.
- I don’t know if playing different agents will help me play. Maybe I should just refine my mains.
- I think agents like cypher play around their utility (they almost never peek unless they have to). I wonder if I should do that more with all agents (play around flash and grenades, shockdarts and mollys)
- Makes me think flashes are waay worse at getting info. It’s all or nothing. The timing needs to be right and you need to be able to push with your team to gain ground rather than flashing randomly.
- To counter a cypher I need to guess where the camera is and shoot it out. Requires knowledge of common cam spots. Dunno how I will get that knowledge without watching tons of videos. Poopers.
- Cage + wires can be OP since wires reveal and cage block their vision.
- You need to be f*cking fast on the camera or they will shoot it out.
- Crouch and shoot wires head level to get wires you cannot jump or crouch over or under.

I feel like my posture was pretty terrible after the practice. My left shoulder blade was hurting and my stomach was clenched.
I need to work on processing the emotions better and feeling my body more (using the sensual feeling technique I will discuss later). I will also need to work on posture exercises way more. After working my body for about 20 minutes with shaking, stretching, and posture exercises, my should mostly doesn’t hurt anymore and my digestion feels much better.
I Figured Out Arm Aiming
Did they tai chi method I mentioned in the previous post. Went really slow and relaxed.
I noticed that there is a natural way to aim.
Here are the steps:
- Get into the mood my swishing the mouse across the screen in broad strokes
- Slow down and control the movement more
- Focus on pivoting on your wrist
- First focus on your elbow moving close and far away from your body
- Then focus on the micro adjust aim with your wrist
Voila! Amazing pain free aim!
Tactics For Sleeping In A Hotel Room
I love love love traveling but one thing I cannot stand is sleeping well in hotels.
Hotels rooms always feel:
- Too stuffy somehow, not enough circulation (I hate that you cannot open the window)
- Too cold
- The mattress doesn’t feel firm enough
- Blankets aren’t soft or warm and fluffy (they are thin and scratchy)
I strategized last night to get the best nights sleep and here are the things I did:
- Ate dinner in the lobby where the air circulation was better and feels like more fresh oxygen
- Turn the heat up as high as it would go (78 degrees F)
- Made the bed as comfortable as possible moving the blankets and pillows around to create a nice nest
- Took a shower, then went back down to the lobby to unwind
- Feel asleep in the lobby then went back to the room to sleep
I feel like this actually was a REALLY good routine but I didn’t sleep well because the spicy wings I ate the day before made my stomach uncomfortable. I’m going to try to see if tonight I can fall asleep like in a coma.

The Bedtime Challenge
Sleep has always been the beast I had to conquer.
Ever since I left my house and went off to college, it has been increasingly hard to go to bed on time.
It’s killing me. I don’t recover from workouts, my mind is foggy, and my memory mists away. My moods feel erratic and neurotic. Energy during the day is a thing of the past.
And yet I cannot stop.
2 am, 3 am, 4 am, 5 am. I keep going to bed late. And sometimes later and later.
I tried so many times to go to be at a reasonable time. I try for a few days, and then I relapse. But we aren’t giving up. We are trying it one more time.
And I didn’t do it alone. My good friend Edgar gave me this kick in the butt:
So what is my gameplan this time? How am I going to succeed when I failed so many times before?
A couple of things:
- I will not try to control how much sleep I get
- I will not try to control my screen habits
- I will not control anything but one single factor, which is my bedtime
- At the same time, I will figure out what needs I am meeting by going to bed late and how to meet those needs earlier in the day
- I will commit to this bedtime long enough to form a habit
I made a list of reasons why I love staying up late at night:
- Completely alone
- Lots of time – no rush
- Sense of accomplishment (if I feel I haven’t accomplished anything yet it gives me more time to get things done)
- Consume art
- Nighttime magical vibes
- Dread of the next day
- More time to eat and digest
I realized that not sleeping is incredibly compelling to me. It is far more challenging for me to go to sleep on time than most people. So as a result, I need to keep it simple. Bedtime at 11 PM for the next 66 days, no exceptions. The challenge will end on December 12th. I am two days into this challenge already.
What does this mean?
- I can eat right before bed
- I can watch videos in my bed after 11
- I can get back up, stretch if I cannot fall asleep, then go back to bed
- I can toss and turn at 11
- I can get up at 6 am if I have work that needs to be done but I don’t have the time to finish it
In the meantime, in an attempt to meet all my needs before bed:
- I will silence notifications and try to find some alone time every day
- I will work to identify a task that is feasible to do and will give me a strong sense of accomplishment every day
- I will try to get this done early so that I will have larger open times during the day where I don’t feel rushed
- I will pursue more art and magical vibes
- I will try to leave gifts for myself the next day so I have positive anticipation(ex: a clean empty sink, plans for something fun)
- I will try to eat at 8 pm at the latest so I have time to digest before 11
In terms of how to structure the next 66 days, I have not decided yet, but perhaps I will try to focus on each of the needs and strategies every week.
Some additional strategies/thoughts:
- Turning off all the lights
- Melatonin gummies
So far, finding a way to feel accomplished/ready for the next day has been a game-changer in wanting to go to sleep. Also, it is easier to go to sleep when bedtime is a hard boundary that is very strict and everything else is quite relaxed (I can still get less sleep and wake up super earlier if I feel I’m not prepared for the next day, I don’t have to go to sleep as long as I’m in bed). Nothing is tempting as a valid excuse/difficult decision anymore.
So tentatively I feel this time will be different. My hope is that after 66 days, I will no longer have to try to go to bed at 11, it will just be automatic, and I will start to cherish my sleep and life in general!
Additional Thoughts on Affirmative Action and Personal Decision Making
The types of biases:
1. Cognitive Dissonance
2. Spotlight Effect
3. Anchoring Effect
4. The Halo Effect
5. Gambler’s Fallacy
6. Contrast Effect
7. Confirmation Bias
8. Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon
9. Zeigarnik Effect
10. Paradox of Choice
More biases:
11. Survivorship Bias
12. Self Serving Bias
13. Fundamental Attribution Error
14. Hindsight Bias
15. Availability Bias
16. Availability Cascade
17. Sunk Cost Fallacy
18. Framing Effect
19. Clustering Illusion
20. Exponential Growth
21. Barnum Effect
Ideas for these biases:
- Create a selection process (for college, group or job)
- Use for cold hard thinking areas (stocks)
- Use in logic games (Valorant, Chess)
- Take advantage of bias to do careful marketing
Sales Conference Health 4: Neck, Shoulder and Chest Relief
I’ve been seeking a way to relieve the tension built up from sitting at the computer all day working and gaming by releasing the fascia in the neck, shoulders, and chest.
These are the most helpful so far:
Valorant Challenge 1: Spike Rush Cypher
Today I didn’t have the time or the pc to play competitively. I played a couple of spike rush games as cypher.
Impressions:
- Hot damn it’s hard to play cypher. So much to put down in so little time. The cages are HARD to use as well.
- I don’t know if playing different agents will help me play. Maybe I should just refine my mains.
- I think agents like cypher play around their utility (they almost never peek unless they have to). I wonder if I should do that more with all agents (play around flash and grenades, shockdarts and mollys)
- Makes me think flashes are waay worse at getting info. It’s all or nothing. The timing needs to be right and you need to be able to push with your team to gain ground rather than flashing randomly.
- To counter a cypher I need to guess where the camera is and shoot it out. Requires knowledge of common cam spots. Dunno how I will get that knowledge without watching tons of videos. Poopers.
- Cage + wires can be OP since wires reveal and cage block their vision.
- You need to be f*cking fast on the camera or they will shoot it out.
- Crouch and shoot wires head level to get wires you cannot jump or crouch over or under.

I feel like my posture was pretty terrible after the practice. My left shoulder blade was hurting and my stomach was clenched.
I need to work on processing the emotions better and feeling my body more (using the sensual feeling technique I will discuss later). I will also need to work on posture exercises way more. After working my body for about 20 minutes with shaking, stretching, and posture exercises, my should mostly doesn’t hurt anymore and my digestion feels much better.
I Figured Out Arm Aiming
Did they tai chi method I mentioned in the previous post. Went really slow and relaxed.
I noticed that there is a natural way to aim.
Here are the steps:
- Get into the mood my swishing the mouse across the screen in broad strokes
- Slow down and control the movement more
- Focus on pivoting on your wrist
- First focus on your elbow moving close and far away from your body
- Then focus on the micro adjust aim with your wrist
Voila! Amazing pain free aim!
Tactics For Sleeping In A Hotel Room
I love love love traveling but one thing I cannot stand is sleeping well in hotels.
Hotels rooms always feel:
- Too stuffy somehow, not enough circulation (I hate that you cannot open the window)
- Too cold
- The mattress doesn’t feel firm enough
- Blankets aren’t soft or warm and fluffy (they are thin and scratchy)
I strategized last night to get the best nights sleep and here are the things I did:
- Ate dinner in the lobby where the air circulation was better and feels like more fresh oxygen
- Turn the heat up as high as it would go (78 degrees F)
- Made the bed as comfortable as possible moving the blankets and pillows around to create a nice nest
- Took a shower, then went back down to the lobby to unwind
- Feel asleep in the lobby then went back to the room to sleep
I feel like this actually was a REALLY good routine but I didn’t sleep well because the spicy wings I ate the day before made my stomach uncomfortable. I’m going to try to see if tonight I can fall asleep like in a coma.

The Bedtime Challenge
Sleep has always been the beast I had to conquer.
Ever since I left my house and went off to college, it has been increasingly hard to go to bed on time.
It’s killing me. I don’t recover from workouts, my mind is foggy, and my memory mists away. My moods feel erratic and neurotic. Energy during the day is a thing of the past.
And yet I cannot stop.
2 am, 3 am, 4 am, 5 am. I keep going to bed late. And sometimes later and later.
I tried so many times to go to be at a reasonable time. I try for a few days, and then I relapse. But we aren’t giving up. We are trying it one more time.
And I didn’t do it alone. My good friend Edgar gave me this kick in the butt:
So what is my gameplan this time? How am I going to succeed when I failed so many times before?
A couple of things:
- I will not try to control how much sleep I get
- I will not try to control my screen habits
- I will not control anything but one single factor, which is my bedtime
- At the same time, I will figure out what needs I am meeting by going to bed late and how to meet those needs earlier in the day
- I will commit to this bedtime long enough to form a habit
I made a list of reasons why I love staying up late at night:
- Completely alone
- Lots of time – no rush
- Sense of accomplishment (if I feel I haven’t accomplished anything yet it gives me more time to get things done)
- Consume art
- Nighttime magical vibes
- Dread of the next day
- More time to eat and digest
I realized that not sleeping is incredibly compelling to me. It is far more challenging for me to go to sleep on time than most people. So as a result, I need to keep it simple. Bedtime at 11 PM for the next 66 days, no exceptions. The challenge will end on December 12th. I am two days into this challenge already.
What does this mean?
- I can eat right before bed
- I can watch videos in my bed after 11
- I can get back up, stretch if I cannot fall asleep, then go back to bed
- I can toss and turn at 11
- I can get up at 6 am if I have work that needs to be done but I don’t have the time to finish it
In the meantime, in an attempt to meet all my needs before bed:
- I will silence notifications and try to find some alone time every day
- I will work to identify a task that is feasible to do and will give me a strong sense of accomplishment every day
- I will try to get this done early so that I will have larger open times during the day where I don’t feel rushed
- I will pursue more art and magical vibes
- I will try to leave gifts for myself the next day so I have positive anticipation(ex: a clean empty sink, plans for something fun)
- I will try to eat at 8 pm at the latest so I have time to digest before 11
In terms of how to structure the next 66 days, I have not decided yet, but perhaps I will try to focus on each of the needs and strategies every week.
Some additional strategies/thoughts:
- Turning off all the lights
- Melatonin gummies
So far, finding a way to feel accomplished/ready for the next day has been a game-changer in wanting to go to sleep. Also, it is easier to go to sleep when bedtime is a hard boundary that is very strict and everything else is quite relaxed (I can still get less sleep and wake up super earlier if I feel I’m not prepared for the next day, I don’t have to go to sleep as long as I’m in bed). Nothing is tempting as a valid excuse/difficult decision anymore.
So tentatively I feel this time will be different. My hope is that after 66 days, I will no longer have to try to go to bed at 11, it will just be automatic, and I will start to cherish my sleep and life in general!
Additional Thoughts on Affirmative Action and Personal Decision Making
The types of biases:
1. Cognitive Dissonance
2. Spotlight Effect
3. Anchoring Effect
4. The Halo Effect
5. Gambler’s Fallacy
6. Contrast Effect
7. Confirmation Bias
8. Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon
9. Zeigarnik Effect
10. Paradox of Choice
More biases:
11. Survivorship Bias
12. Self Serving Bias
13. Fundamental Attribution Error
14. Hindsight Bias
15. Availability Bias
16. Availability Cascade
17. Sunk Cost Fallacy
18. Framing Effect
19. Clustering Illusion
20. Exponential Growth
21. Barnum Effect
Ideas for these biases:
- Create a selection process (for college, group or job)
- Use for cold hard thinking areas (stocks)
- Use in logic games (Valorant, Chess)
- Take advantage of bias to do careful marketing
Sales Conference Health 4: Neck, Shoulder and Chest Relief
I’ve been seeking a way to relieve the tension built up from sitting at the computer all day working and gaming by releasing the fascia in the neck, shoulders, and chest.
These are the most helpful so far:
Valorant Challenge 1: Spike Rush Cypher
Today I didn’t have the time or the pc to play competitively. I played a couple of spike rush games as cypher.
Impressions:
- Hot damn it’s hard to play cypher. So much to put down in so little time. The cages are HARD to use as well.
- I don’t know if playing different agents will help me play. Maybe I should just refine my mains.
- I think agents like cypher play around their utility (they almost never peek unless they have to). I wonder if I should do that more with all agents (play around flash and grenades, shockdarts and mollys)
- Makes me think flashes are waay worse at getting info. It’s all or nothing. The timing needs to be right and you need to be able to push with your team to gain ground rather than flashing randomly.
- To counter a cypher I need to guess where the camera is and shoot it out. Requires knowledge of common cam spots. Dunno how I will get that knowledge without watching tons of videos. Poopers.
- Cage + wires can be OP since wires reveal and cage block their vision.
- You need to be f*cking fast on the camera or they will shoot it out.
- Crouch and shoot wires head level to get wires you cannot jump or crouch over or under.

I feel like my posture was pretty terrible after the practice. My left shoulder blade was hurting and my stomach was clenched.
I need to work on processing the emotions better and feeling my body more (using the sensual feeling technique I will discuss later). I will also need to work on posture exercises way more. After working my body for about 20 minutes with shaking, stretching, and posture exercises, my should mostly doesn’t hurt anymore and my digestion feels much better.