Always hoped this was an urban legend.

My overall cardio fitness, as measured by the Apple Watch, has been low for a long long time. No more tho!

Researchers have been working on a way to prevent RSV since the 1960s, without success. But on August 3, 2023, the CDC approved a drug called nirsevimab (trade name Beyfortus): a long-acting monoclonal antibody that is 80 percent effective at preventing hospitalizations and 90 percent effective at preventing intensive care unit admissions. Nirsevimab is administered as a single, intramuscular injection and can be given at the same time as other vaccines.

A Breakthrough Product for Babies

When imposed on us, boundaries can feel upsetting. Because many people view happy relationships as problem free, a request to behave differently can feel like a rejection. Some people—out of trauma or other wounds—interpret a “no” from a loved one as the end of a relationship. But boundaries are supposed to help preserve relationships, not destroy them. “People typically believe that boundaries are to control people, and in actuality, they are safeguards for yourself and for peace and comfort in your relationships,” says the therapist and Drama Free author Nedra Glover Tawwab.

THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD CONCEPT IN PSYCHOLOGY

Paul Krugman:

The bottom line is that even though many people would like someone to blame for high grocery prices, it’s really hard to find domestic villains. Despite what the American right claims, Joe Biden didn’t do this. Despite what some on the left would like to believe, neither, at least for the most part, did greedy corporations.

Why Are Groceries So Expensive?

You can blame Putin and weather, he does say.

Your attachment style is not so much a fixed category you fall into, like an astrology sign, but rather a tendency that can vary among different relationships and, in turn, is continuously shaped by those relationships. Perhaps most important, you can take steps to change it. So Arriaga could give her concerned students good news: Attachment style isn’t destiny.

ATTACHMENT STYLE ISN’T DESTINY

Oliver Sacks on saving humanity:

I think we have to preserve the human scale — in life, in building, in architecture, in technology. The human scale doesn’t mean we can’t have grand visions of the universe, it doesn’t preclude the development of physics and cosmology, but it does mean one shouldn’t be an anonymous person — an anonymous non-person, one of a thousand non-people — in a skyscraper.

Henry Miller, concluding Tropic of Cancer:

Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.

The Human Scale: Oliver Sacks on How to Save Humanity from Itself

Fans of the Blade Runner film know well that this gritty sci-fi noir is based on Phillip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (which, like many adaptations, differs in significant ways from the source novel). I never knew, though, why it was called “Blade Runner” (although that was the title of Rick Deckard’s job, in the movie). The film’s name was cribbed from another novel for which no one less than William S. Burroughs had adapted to a screenplay:

No film was produced from the Burroughs treatment, but Hampton Fancher, a screenwriter for a film based on Philip K. Dick‘s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), had a copy. He suggested “Blade Runner”, as preferable to the earlier working titles “Android” and “Dangerous Days”, for the Dick adaptation.[3] In the film, released as Blade Runner in 1982, the term is never explained, and the plot has no connection to the Nourse and Burroughs stories.

The Bladerunner

One of OmniFocus’s best features is its structuring of a weekly review. OmniFocus basically makes a to-do list of your to-do list, and presents your projects to you for review, which you then tick off as done. This review is saved as metadata, so you can keep yourself accountable about reviewing your open loops.

I would argue that, besides capturing your commitments, the most important part of effectively using GTD is reviewing, weekly, your open loops: projects, tasks, calendar items, and notes.

So using Todoist requires you to create your own review, set a reminder, and dedicate time to doing so. There’s no GUI prompt as there is in OmniFocus. (You can, however, use one of Todoists’s templates.)

 

Todoist’s Weekly Review Template

There’s no reason you can’t just work your way down your projects list, and of course your inbox, as part of your weekly review. But I didn’t want to do that. So I created two filters:

My Weekly Review Filters

These filters show me what would be the equivalent of what OmniFocus would categorize as “active” (as opposed to deferred), and grouped by Home and Work projects.¹ (I otherwise create future projects as a subjproject under a project called “Future.”) Within these two projects, I use filters to show me available tasks, grouped by project. On one scrollable screen.

^{Home Weekly Review}    

 

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¹I’m jumping the gun a bit here, but I essentially created two projects: Home and Work, and then create specific projects under each area. This is because Todoist doesn’t (yet) support separating projects with a higher-level filing option (like areas of responsibility).