Not being fat
Cooking
Writing for myself
Reading fiction
Camping/sleeping outdoors
Volunteering
Birding and documenting it
Appreciating old stuff
Hosting frequently
coffee and tea
community events
not-waffling
crewnecks
Being fat
smartphone use
Diet soda
Gambling
Being an index fund loser
True crime
Apple watch
Optimizing / “efficiency”
Reading so many news articles
how do you just stop doing shit you know you’re not supposed to do?
I wrote a long time ago about Akratic behavior, acting against your own better judgement.
That means like eating horrible food even though you know you shouldn’t. Gambling and losing a ton of money even though you shouldn’t.
Getting fatter, broker.
I did all that in 2025.
It was a really poor year in both regards.
But how the hell do you just stop doing the things you know you’re not supposed to do?
It beats me.
The only thing I’ve ever quit cold turkey was biting my nails. I don’t even really know how.
The COVID pandemic made biting your nails a potential death sentence (that’s dramatic, but you know)…so I just stopped doing it. Somehow I kept not doing it.
And then I just never did it again.
So what’s it going to take for me to just stop doing things that I know I’m not supposed to be doing now?
Asking for a friend.