Adrienne
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This book breaks down habit change at a very granular level. If you read a lot of productivity content, it may feel repetitive. Also, Foggy has a habit of creating new technology to describe things we already have words for at of they are unique. (A Swarm of Behaviors is just a brainstorm, man.)
Things I found really insightful
- Once you've clarified a general ambition, brainstorm many potential behaviors that could support it and select for the ones that are both impactful and things you'd actually do.
- Cement new habits by immediately creating a positive emotion after performing them
- Rehearse prompt › action › celebration so you can remember the prompt that should trigger the new habit
- Help people do what they want to do. Help people feel successful
- Approach new habit formation with a spirit of experimentation
- Since your start your habits tiny, they can go grow either in intensity or by accumulating more signed behaviors, but keep your momentum going by always accepting the tiny version of the habit as fulfilling the habit.
Readers may find the book a bit repetitive, but most of the repetitions are expansions or variations. Also, the repetitions help clarify how all of the parts of the theory relate.
I can imagine myself reading again for a tune up in a few years
This book breaks down habit change at a very granular level. If you read a lot of productivity content, it may feel repetitive. Also, Foggy has a habit of creating new technology to describe things we already have words for at of they are unique. (A Swarm of Behaviors is just a brainstorm, man.)
Things I found really insightful
- Once you've clarified a general ambition, brainstorm many potential behaviors that could support it and select for the ones that are both impactful and things you'd actually do.
- Cement new habits by immediately creating a positive emotion after performing them
- Rehearse prompt › action › celebration so you can remember the prompt that should trigger the new habit
- Help people do what they want to do. Help people feel successful
- Approach new habit formation with a spirit of experimentation
- Since your start your habits tiny, they can go grow either in intensity or by accumulating more signed behaviors, but keep your momentum going by always accepting the tiny version of the habit as fulfilling the habit.
Readers may find the book a bit repetitive, but most of the repetitions are expansions or variations. Also, the repetitions help clarify how all of the parts of the theory relate.
I can imagine myself reading again for a tune up in a few years
I'm aware of Dracula and the other monsters referred here by pop culture osmosis, but I haven't read the Stoker or Lovecraft books.
I was still able to enjoy this book as a series of largely disastrous space adventures, told mostly from the point of view of the ship's AI.
Demeter is a fun character, as a ship dropped into multiple impossible situations which, according to her databases, should be fictional. Her vacillation as to whether any of this death is her problem and how can she get the corporation to take her seriously feels very relatable.
Steward, the medical AI, is on some ways even more relatable to me. They're cranky and self interested and convinced of their own cleverness. I really enjoyed the interaction between the two AIs.
The world building feels a little sketchy, in a good and bad way. In a good way, it feels like we barely scratch the service on the human culture of interstellar travel and Earth-colonial relationships. That all feels sufficient to me. How and why the monsters exist and why the limits on their powers feels a bit under explained. What did Dracula want to do with a tame werewolf and why was he traveling to alpha centauri?
Overall, I had a good time reading the book.
I'm aware of Dracula and the other monsters referred here by pop culture osmosis, but I haven't read the Stoker or Lovecraft books.
I was still able to enjoy this book as a series of largely disastrous space adventures, told mostly from the point of view of the ship's AI.
Demeter is a fun character, as a ship dropped into multiple impossible situations which, according to her databases, should be fictional. Her vacillation as to whether any of this death is her problem and how can she get the corporation to take her seriously feels very relatable.
Steward, the medical AI, is on some ways even more relatable to me. They're cranky and self interested and convinced of their own cleverness. I really enjoyed the interaction between the two AIs.
The world building feels a little sketchy, in a good and bad way. In a good way, it feels like we barely scratch the service on the human culture of interstellar travel and Earth-colonial relationships. That all feels sufficient to me. How and why the monsters exist and why the limits on their powers feels a bit under explained. What did Dracula want to do with a tame werewolf and why was he traveling to alpha centauri?
Overall, I had a good time reading the book.