Re Human Day 22

Re-inventing ourselves is the most important skill nowadays. I’m reinventing myself by improving in 15 areas at a time. This post is part of my Re Human project.

Daily Habits

Books: Today I discovered that Audible just added a 3.5x speed option. Woah. I usually listen at 3x for most books (especially biographies), 2.5x in some books (or just some parts), and 2x in spiritual books.

Today I started Creative Selection, a pretty new book about the Product Design & Building Process at Apple, in the times of Steve Jobs, told by Software Engineer Ken Kocienda. I tried 3.5x and it was awesome. Almost finished the entire book. I’ve had an idea of “listening to one book a day” for some time — 3.5x will allow that much more easily. I’ll make this a part of my system at some point in my life. Anyhow, this is a bit of the notes I took today on Creative Selection:

Major Components of Apple’s Product Creation Process

1. Inspiration
2. Collaboration
3. Craft
4. Diligence
5. Decisiveness
6. Taste
7. Empathy

Fitness: Today I started with “one hand” pull ups — feels good to be able to do one each hand haha, but that’s it. Getting better at the human flag and at holding handstands.

Writing: This post, code, and a daily thought.

Piano: Today in Flowkey I continued learning about Chords.

Re Human Extended Activity: Mondays is Digital Drawing & Painting and VR Artist & Architect.

VR Artist & Architect

Focused mostly on finding a good system for creating.

I’ve already decided I’m going to be building my VR Library in A-Frame, and I already learned how it works, and found several projects that serve as inspirations. Now the really important part is actually making things. I tried a couple of ways, but there’s nothing that really satisfied me for a nice interface/process for creating things from a 2D screen. Moving things in the Visual Inspector in A-Frame and then copying the attributes to my html code was the best process I thought of/found.

A VR headset would definitely make things easier because you just grab and move objects, but facebook announced their new oculus quest coming in 2019 for $399 and that seems like the way to go, so I wouldn’t want to buy something now. But I also want to be good at building things in VR independent of the platform.

Digital Drawing and Painting

I got a book that I kept seeing when I’ve been looking for “learning to draw” things.

I LOOOOOOVE Tables of Contents

awesome quote by the sideline

then spent some time actually drawing. Super cool that iPad allows to open two apps side by side. That’s my dad and my little brother, some years ago.

Meditation: 20mins in morning.

Soccer trick juggling: I love how in this area I can feel the improvement so much. It was mostly on the most important thing — the fundamentals, juggles.

Connections, takeaways and Ideas for tomorrow

Some activities require focus and a “push” of your abilities — getting out of your comfort zone.

But I’ve found Drawing to be a pretty relaxing activity. I’d recommend trying it out for 10–15minutes when you’re tired/want to take a break, instead of falling for the red dots of insanity and opening all those squares with rounded corners. Disabling the red dots of insanity is also a delightfully liberating, continuous experience. Get some green grapes, get a notebook or an iPad, play music, and create for some time. Did it today and I found that recipe delicious.

Read the next post. Read the previous post (a weekly recap).

Receive a free weekly Present here 🎁.