Pizen

Full time office worker and dad of two. Just dabbling with improvements and documenting my journey here in 2026

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@caryatis Babies get sleep food, cuddled, poop and they’re content. Grown ups are just a more complicated version of babies with more variables to check off but same principle.

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I think speaking up as a skill might include these elements:
- follow the urge of a question or point Don’t overthink timing or phrasing
- enter strongly indecisively with strong conviction
- don’t be afraid to coil and wait for the moment someone else stops to pounce in

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Was a bit sick and work from home last couple days. In that state somehow I felt less inhibited and talked much more in meetings (that I didn’t run) and was much more effective.

I can’t change being introvert but I can improve “speak up” as a skill

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@alyssaleann I’ve done lazy summer “gyros” with ranch dressing before. It’s just a different white sauce right?

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I think the value of building up this AI life coaches that you are creating and documenting a strong sense of you: your values and ideals, but also your current state and your weaknesses.

AI helps check the “you of this moment” against that strong ver to steer & stabilize you

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This year I started consistently using ChatGPT as a life coach and I’ve built up references from sessions.

Today I felt down and doubtful about my work but I id’d false narratives from prev work. AI also found additional supporting points from our past conversations.

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I’m naturally an overthinker and worried about taking up too much resources and inconveniencing people.

One “red pill” moment is seeing the same names always having 10-20 holds around my library holds pickup in the 1-3 times a month I use it.

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Seems obvious but the solution when the 2 kids get overstimulated by playing/antagonizing each other is to separate them and have them play in different rooms.

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@le___mxx The nice presentation including the salad makes a big difference huh

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All the people setting up complicated AI agent systems and loops just feels like new version of the productivity people and their smart next-action lists and networked note system.

Are people actually using them with some benefit?

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@AaronLevine_ The equivalent are Seahawks haters who pretend they are Seahawk fans so they can go in the general forums and say “I’m a Seahawks fan but Derek Hall totally stepped on the rams OL with malicious intent” to collect karma lol

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@GeeJayAar Bart “I won, old thing”
Homer “old thing? Show some respect. I’m so mad I explode you little shit”
Lisa “roflmao”

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I read a passage from some self help book that basically said you can choose to let things not bother you and I just do that sometimes and it works (at a restaurant and the kids are drawing gross pictures but not bothering anyone else)

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@Seahawks All fun and games until someone pulls an hamstring

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No one intuitively connected with some VO2 or hrv number - but everyone can understand if they “score” older it’s bad and scary and pushes one to do something about it.

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Whoop also combines different metrics into a single “whoop age” score. Regardless of how accurate or true it is, it does tickle a gamification need. The genius is that this score is presented in relation to your age - a number that everyone can intimately understand

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I was going through a period of not feeling so good so perhaps it showed me that my low recovery scores might sync to how I feel.

I think that period I was eating extra bad and sleeping late due to work stress and it flared autoimmune issues.

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With bevel I started noticing my daily stress levels more. However it wasn’t until I got the whoop I paid more attention to my hrv recovery scores.

Im not sure why but the slightly different look of the app and the little reminder or phrases it uses made it salient

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Got a whoop band a couple weeks ago from a credit card offer. I had Apple Watch and bevel before but having something novel and slightly different metrics has nudged me to pay more attention and change some behaviors for the better.

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@hawkblogger I remember Jared Wilson being discussed for the Seahawks 3rd round pick. They ended up with Milroe. A year later, what do you think of that decision?