Category: Notes
Being what most would simply call ‘blog posts’. Quick posts [usually] about a single idea.
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Filtering Gloom
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Angry sky. Filtering gloom through a sense of foreboding. My work continues.
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Time According To Window Washers
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Working and writing from home today. Measuring time by the progress of the window cleaners across the street.
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Boots for escaping malaise
I’ve been experiencing malaise for the past couple of days – melancholy but without the sadness. The balance of my life has tipped toward more input and less output. This is never the way I want this scale to tip and yet here I am, mired in unproductive worry. Into this malaise entered this image […]
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Notes From A Day At The Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL)
I had the great pleasure of attending the Sydney Sixers vs. Perth Scorchers Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) match at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Monday. Any day at the cricket is a good day, but seeing the Sixers in action means I get to see Alyssa Healy and Ellyse Perry – two of […]
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Why We Should Take Each Other Seriously
Do you want to be taken seriously? I would have a difficult time imagining that you don’t. The desire to be taken seriously is the fuel that powers strange personality traits that you’ve likely observed in yourself and others, including: Your Facebook friends who meticulously curate their online presence in an effort to appear as […]
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Solid Hours
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Logged some solid hours on the PhD tonight. Hope you’ve all had a great weekend.
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Marginalia: “No One Understands You And What To Do About It”
Marginalia is a regular series on Toward Vandalia in which I review the books I’m reading and unpack their most valuable lessons. Today I’m looking at No One Understands You And What To Do About It by Heidi Grant Halvorson. Heidi Grant Halvorson is the Associate Director of the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia Business […]
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The Color Of My Days
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) I’ve been having the most vivid dreams lately. They change the color of my days. The line between what is real and what I would like to be real is becoming more and more negligible. It’s as if my dreams are a book that […]
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My Usual Table at Wheat Cafe
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) This is one of my favourite spots to read: my usual table at Wheat Cafe. It’s just downstairs from the day job and the ham & cheese toastie is on point (don’t forget the mustard). I’m still reading The Corrections even as I keep […]
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Today Is An Exciting Day
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Today I officially start my PhD at the University of Technology, Sydney. Today is an exciting day.