f6k's log #2, 2018-06-29.

it took me some time to understand (and admit) that i'm quite dependant of
my environment.  i mean my personal environment.  the city where i live, the
apartment where i'm in have some influence on my efficiency.  since i can't
have a great impact on the shape and the state of the city, i know i have to
maintain my place in a certain way for me to be good.  obviously it has to
stay clean; if i let things get degraded i know it'll have an impact on my
mood, my social life, even my work and studies--in a general way this has an
influence on my ability to get things done.  the place needs to be simple;
the least furniture possible, each having its usefulness, no fancy. 
otherwise i know by experience it'll have some impact too.  the funny thing
is that it's the same on my systems and that's part of the explanation why i
like unix-like operating systems which i can keep simple, clean and steady. 
apparently this expands too on my online spaces.  if we take this gopherhole
for instance, i needed to find a way to keep it as simple as
possible--thankfully the hierarchical structure of gopher helps a lot.  i
have this other site over http hosted by github.  at first it was very
simple too but as time passed things became slightly more complex--not that
much but enough though--and i noted that it had some kind of influence on my
desire to feed it with articles and new log entries.  i know i'm not the
only one in that case but it's still odd for me to think that the way i am
day-to-day is affected as much by that.  i hope i'll keep this place as
straightforward as possible so i can continue to write in it.

eof -- cc by f6k@sdf.org