Logging Workouts for Accountability
I log all my weightlifting sessions, with pen and paper, and have for years. Doing so greatly increases my level of personal accountability. Specifically, it helps me do what I planned, and stay honest about my progress over time. I think everyone would benefit from logging their workouts and here I document how I do it and why it’s worthwhile.
Productivity Entertainment
Productivity entertainment is a form of procrastination in which you amuse yourself by passively consuming something that you could plausibly use to be productive.
The Chicago L's Vista Paradox
I’ve noticed while traveling out of Chicago on the L (the elevated train line) that the Willis Sears Tower appears as though it’s shooting upward out of the surrounding skyline.
It’s pretty striking when you first see it.
For a moment it honestly looks like the Tower is growing taller.
Today I learned from the fantastic Futility Closet that this effect is called the Vista paradox.
Searching for Autograms
This sentence contains three a’s, three c’s, two d’s, twenty-seven e’s, four f’s, one g, five h’s, eleven i’s, two l’s, sixteen n’s, seven o’s, five r’s, twenty-nine s’s, sixteen t’s, two u’s, six v’s, six w’s, six x’s, and three y’s.
Hill Climbing Art in Python
I thought it would be cool to write a hill climbing algorithm that replicates images by drawing random circles.