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Weekly Improvement Thread - Aug 3rd 2025 (hexbear.net)
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Hello comrades and welcome to the first improvement megathread of August! bonfire

Some discussion ideas:

  • How was your week?

  • Do you have some plans for next week?

  • How was your July?

  • Do you have some plans for August?

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[-] valium_aggelein@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Kind of an off week for me so was far less productive than usual. Combination of a frustrating period of work and some hard to pin down stresses. It was a relatively social week however, so gotta take that as a win at least.

I did accomplish some things however:

  • baked bread for the first time
  • 7 months without drinking
  • did some reading on imperialism and feel like I got a better grasp on it now as far as it being the “highest stage of capitalism” instead of just the more popular use definition
  • made some progress on two songs I’m writing for a folkish side project
    • one I’m pretty excited about as it uses Reich’s phasing ideas but it’s the first time I’ve done that with guitar. Results are turning out cooler than what I imagined in my head :]
  • now actually halfway through Infinite Jest (yes, I know har har whatever it’s actually a good book though)

Things I majorly fell off on:

  • exercise went WAY down. I think I only exercised like once this week and zero yoga
  • daily instrument practice skipped three days in a row
    • I’m usually okay with one day skipped now and then but three is a legitimate progress problem
  • only went for a walk a few times this week so did not get outside nearly as much as I want to
    • this prob didn’t help with my lack of motivation
  • had an unexpected high medical expense which SUCKED

For this week:

  • get back into my exercise/yoga schedule
  • planning to read a bit more on China to get just slightly familiar with things like socialism with Chinese characteristics, Chinese Dream, etc… just like a rough overview of the guiding values of the Xi period
  • want to get to at least page 600 of infinite jest as I need to finish it by the end of August so I can move on to other stuff on my backlog
  • want to come up with some more exercises for guitar that can be done away from a guitar (on vacation from home this weekend)
  • want to continue trying out some new stuff for my hair as I’m kinda embracing the curly girl journey lifestyle at the moment (I am a man lol)
[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 1 points 11 hours ago

Rev Left Radio has some podcast episodes on China if you're interested in that.

I would also like to practice guitar regularly, what resources are you using? I'm thinking I should try to learn one new chord every day

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