I ended up accepting the vendor lock-in and went with Kindle.

Having tried built my own e-reader app for a few years a long time ago, I can confidently say I'm not a fan at all of the vendor lock-in approach, but ultimately it does still provide me with the best reading experience.

It's also good to know that there are ways to break the DRM so if you ever to move away from Kindle, you should still be able to read those books. Similarly, you can import .epub's etc on your Kindle as well although it might require some work.

Calibre on macOS can help with that and is also a good tool to just manage all your ebooks.

Oh nice. I think @levelsio is also into bouldering

This sounds interesting. So you just consume a lot of Thai spoken content?

How do you guys prioritize your to-do lists?

"Focus on the one thing that makes everything else easier or unnecessary."

Paraphrasing from this podcast which is worth a listen: tim.blog/2019/12/12/gary-kell…

@gvrizzo is right. The streak is based on the time zone of your account settings.

The rest of the site however is based on UTC.

Make that two!

I started waking up earlier and going to the gym in the morning.

Historically I've been very much a nightowl. I've never had a real job so my only fixed schedule was during my student years. Even then I had a hard time waking up on time each day and ever since graduating I've had a shifted wake/sleep routine waking up late in the morning or early/mid afternon. And going to bed past midnight, often around 3am and some periods even later.

I think people should follow a routine whatever works for them and I really dislike society's regard of nightowls. Wake up later than average is often seen as lazy, but then working until late is considered unhealthy too. Make up your mind! 😂

That said, the vast majority of high performers seem to wake up early. And the times I do wake up early (and have had enough sleep), my days felt longer and more productive.

So that's why I'm trying to wake up early. For me anything before 10am would be considered early, but the aim right now is to wake up around 8am everyday.

In addition to that I try to go to the gym first thing in the morning. I typically work out in the evening, but I always dread going because I'm usually still working and don't want to stop. If I wait too long I don't have the energy to give it my all and it somewhat feels like waste.

Exercising in the morning definitely requires some discipline, but in some sense it's proving to be easier. Because I tell myself "I can start work (which I really enjoy) after gym" so then I'm incentivized to head to the gym earlier rather than later.

Having read James Clear's Atomic Habits I also realize it's easier to build a habit on top of another habit (also known as "habit stacking") as one thing naturally leads to the next. That's how it works now: I wake up. Shower. Exercise.

It's all part of one morning routine. One thing leads to the next.

Once I finish at the gym the rest becomes easy. I naturually get hungry so I want to eat and I eat. I naturally feel like working so I go work. Eventually I get hungry again and kind of tired so I eat and stop working.

Having that morning routine sets me up for the rest of the day 👌

Today I woke up at 1pm and didn't go to the gym haha. So I'm definitely not there yet. But before 1pm was normal. Now it's an anomaly.

Most days the last week or two I've pretty good at waking up early. And I went to the gym in the morning about half of the time, but I also got a bunch of early appointments that made it difficult to stick to my schedule.

So all in all there's definitely some ways to go, but already a big change over all the years before.

The benefits are pretty obvious. I do find myself more productive in a day. Starting with exercise definitely is part of that. But also waking up early just feels more productive than waking up at 2pm in the afternoon.

The drawback is that there might be reasons to stay up a little later (e.g. many of friends become active online when it's late in my day), so that's a little tougher. And the main drawback is I don't get to sleep in which I really liked 😂

But overall the benefits outweight the drawbacks. Let's see how long I can keep this going 😄

1. Adding a default #life project is a good idea. I'll add it as part of a new onboarding flow I want to do anyway 👍

2. Yes "streak credits", "streak freezes", or "cheat days" come up quite a lot. But like you point out it's tricky to determine the specific implementation. How many you can use them, etc.

3. Love the idea of having multiple leaderboards and highlight different types of community activity. Will make this! ❤️

Yeah this is the crux of the "problem" with the hardcore streak. There might be very valid reasons you skip a day or two. But it's hard to define what exactly that middleground is.

Thanks for sharing 🙌

One the one hand the streak is just a number in a database, but on the other hand it also represents all the hard you put in over the years and the consistency with which you did so.

So I think it makes a lot of sense that you grow an attachment to that number and so it hurts when you lose it.

I think those are the two sides to the metaphorical streak coin. It motivates you to keep going and the longer you keep going, the more invested you get, and so the power powerful that sense of commitment becomes.

But when you do eventually lose it, it has the opposite effect. It's really discouraging and based on anecdotal observations it seems like many members kinda start to tune out of WIP after that. It just seems like an insurmountable mountain to get back to that number.

That's why I'm considering alternatives to the current streak system. Not necessarily to replace it, but something to augment that hardcore easy-to-loose streak with something more forgiving.

A karma system is an interesting idea, but implementations always seem rather arbitrary to me. If completing a todo gives you +10 points, how much would a comment be? Etc.

But perhaps I'm overthinking it, and it's not about getting it exactly right. Just reward people for doing cool stuff in the community.

I'll give it some thought the coming weeks. I do like the idea of badges for concrete achievements. Getting the top streak. Losing your first streak. Adding your 5th project. Etc.