Rest is where anxiety can become curiosity
Armin Ronacher writes that anxiety fits an uncertain craft better than anger. Sleepyland is a browser sound machine; a stretch of rest is one place that anxiety can become curiosity.
Sleepyland Reading
Rest, attention, and the ideas around them.
Reading notes on rest, attention, habit, anxiety, curiosity, and the limited role of a quiet listening environment.
Rest is not a habit until the first small hard thing starts
Shreyans Bhansali pointed at James Somers’s 2012 William James excerpts on habit. Sleepyland is a local sound environment; rest becomes a habit only after the first small act starts.
Rest and attention as a condition for new ideas
Henrik and Johanna Karlsson describe a cultivated state of mind where fragile ideas can survive. Sleepyland is a browser sound machine; rest and usable attention are conditions for that work, not treatments.