Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.

• I have been journaling. A lot of my real life friends have moved or have become a bit inaccessible the last several months (marriages, new jobs, having kids, that sort of stuff nothin' bad) and I'm finding myself needing a place to vent and doing in written form in a notebook has helped me a lot. I have been journaling since February and I think it's a must for anyone trying to improve themselves, and I think it's a double must for the fellas. Not on some gender wars shit, but I do think in general dudes tend to have fewer outlets for safely venting and a journal is truly one of the safest places to do it. I also use it to track my goals, daydream, and generally get thoughts out. It's one of the tools I think any self-improving leftist should have in their utility belt of self-improvement.

Do you have any plans or goals for the following week?

• My big goal this week is to increase my daily programming and game development from 70 minutes sessions to 80 minutes sessions. Rather than trying make a big jump, I want to make a small incremental increase. Just like with lifting weights, going up 10 minutes and getting the most out of those 80 minutes is probably a better way to sustainable get to even deeper and longer working sessions in the long term. I'm very much not where I want to be in my creative output but I'm just telling myself slow and steady, build the habit of doing it every day first and then build upon that doing it longer and more intense every day in the future.

Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.

• Mostly just reading a book everyday. I'm reading some sci-fi classics, currently working through a ton of the American cyberpunk classics but also reading physical mangas and comics. Personally, I think building the habit of reading physical works (both big brain heavy stuff and lighter fun stuff) is just good for me and helps be less of a passive consumer. Reading isn't exactly punk rock, but it feels like it in this modern age of everything big clips and screenshots.

Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?

• Not really, but I just want all the hexbear commie leftist internet dweebs to be in good cheer. The world is burning and it's probably going to get far worse before it gets better, however I think if we are really about this better future shit we gotta embrace that and figure how to get through together. We aren't alone and better future is possible if we work for it today. That's a big takeaway for me in this self-improvement thing.