ROYGBYTE'S 10 COMMANDS FOR A GOOD LIFE
       
       - Be comfortable feeling uncomfortable.
       - Lead by interest not ego.
       - Measure improvement incrementally.
       - Admit and learn from failure.
       - Make love from the inside out.
       - Have really good bad days.
       - Celebrate inspiring people.
       - Befriend despite differences.
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       About the commands
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       Someone on IRC posted a link to Luxferre's phlog. I looked through it
       happily, finding many interesting articles on topics of life,
       minimalism, and computing. Two articles stood out among others. One
       waxes about a world beyond syntax highlighting. The other lays out ten
       commandments for living. Both elicited an immediate reaction of
       intrigue from me. Could these things change my life for the better? I
       sought to discover. First to code without color and then to understand
       mine own life's commands.
       
       Turning off syntax highlighting was straightfoward. I use emacs for
       most writing and programming. A single line to my config turned my
       buffers back to black and white: `(global-font-lock-mode 0)'. Finding
       my commandments to live by took a path of indirection. I needed to
       reflect back /and/ look forward. What internal or external directives
       lead to my best days? What can I do today to make tomorrow better?
       Happily, my first seven commands were ripe and ready to pick from the
       edges of recent experiences. The eigth command was borrowed (though
       rephrased) from a televsion show I admire. The ninth command I leave
       blank but annotate to mean "fill-up on emptiness". The tenth command
       doesn't exist. Indeed: I began this activity thinking I would arrive
       at ten commands to live by. But I never found anything to come after
       nine. Maybe there is a final command for me to /find/. Or maybe the
       tenth command is to /feel/ that there's something more out there just
       waiting to be discovered...
       
       
       Errata
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       Luxferre's phlog post: [0|2024-02-26-luxferres-ten-commandments.txt|/posts/2024-02-26-luxferres-ten-commandments.txt|hoi.st|70]
       
       On "fill-up with emptiness": otherwise expressed as "less is more",
       "silence is golden", and so on. I integrate this command into my life
       with a cleaning activity beginning from the encouraging prompt "time
       to make some space!"