Author: Travis Packer
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Weekly Reflections #3
Back from travel, which means a fulfilling week at work but one that upended a few habits. Reading: It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium by John Ed Bradley and Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen I finished Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet, The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers, and The…
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Weekly Reflections #2
Traveling this week so let’s do an abbreviated version: Reading: The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers, Runner by Thomas Perry, Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet Watching: we finished Fleishman is in Trouble on last week in a flurry/binge. So good, though idk a realistic drama about entering middle-age and divorce is…
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Weekly Reflections
Well, new year, same me and all. Which means I’ll write these for a few weeks and then get “busy” and stop. But for now here we go. I recommitted a while back to reading every morning before starting work. I did okay with that commitment–I kept it during easy weeks but tended to lose…
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Favorite Television of 2022
A quick list of my favorite things I watched in 2022 (not necessarily released this year): Television1. Station Eleven: I wrote about this here. I think the top 3 here stand alone in a sort of all-time tier, and this was so good that it’s still my top choice.2. Andor (Season 1): As a Star…
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Favorite Video Games of 2022
I’m generally looking for three things in video games: Can you make me forget about everything else in the world right now? Are you interesting enough that I’m not checking my email in the down moments? When I’m not playing the game, am I thinking about playing the game? Am I trying to find time…
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Favorite Books of 2022
This is a short list of my favorite books I read in 2022 (not necessarily released this year). I’ll add a short blurb if I have anything insightful to say about the book, but I’m not a literary critic and I struggled in all of my (3) college English courses so you can take everything…
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The Week Ahead
Going to keep it short this morning. Had a great weekend, including seeing Built to Spill live for the first time in like 20 years. Cat’s Cradle is still great. Other part of the weekend is that I woke up Saturday and had some sciatica (new word for me provided by the teledoc I talked…
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Habit Analysis, Cont’d
It occurs to me today that part of the reason these shifts were so difficult is that I was trying to make all of them at once. In the past, I was nudging each one along, one at a time usually, trying to see if it would work. Perhaps this is the approach I’ll take…
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Adjustments + Looking Forward To This Week
One adjustment to a new job I didn’t think about very much beforehand but am now noticing acutely is the need to make shifts to habits and routines. In my old role, I worked most evenings Monday-Thursday, usually for 2-3 hours each night coaching, and I took a similar amount of time during the day…
