Dec. 22nd, 2018

ljwrites: (workspace)
I've been meaning for a while to replace one of my old icons, called "workspace," with what my workspace looks like now. The old workspace icon showed my old setup from 2012-ish of my laptop monitor and a larger monitor serving as dual monitors on my desk. I now have a spare flatscreen as my main monitor across the room and a Dell pivot monitor set to vertical as the secondary on my desk, with my Macbook Air connected to both but closed and tucked out of the way in a desktop shelf when at home. (Macbook Air can't natively handle two external monitors, for the Dell I use a device that lets me connect monitors via USB.) Mark, inspired by me, has an almost identical setup but with an actual desktop. We set up our workstations side-by-side in the large north-facing room that's cold and doesn't get enough sun, and Mark's old workroom is now a playroom for our kid.

Here's the old "workspace" icon, a bad cellphone pic run through a bad sketch tag. I like my current setup much better, but it's one of the few pictures surviving from that era of my life.

old workspace icon
ljwrites: LeVar Burton with a Reading Rainbow logo. (reading)
An antilibrary is a powerful reminder of your limitations — the vast quantity of things you don’t know, half-know, or will one day realize you’re wrong about. By living with that reminder daily you can nudge yourself toward the kind of intellectual humility that improves decision-making and drives learning.


Why you should surround yourself with more books than you'll ever have time to read is a reassuring read, but nobody tell my husband. It's been a contention between us for years that he has far too many books (and so do I tbh), and I don't want to validate him.

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