Nels Lindahl — Functional Journal

A weblog created by Dr. Nels Lindahl featuring writings and thoughts…

Tag: internet

  • Keyboards keep getting better

    I’m still rocking the Corsair K65 RGB 60% size mechanical gaming keyboard as my primary daily driver. Using it does require in my opinion a Kensington duo gel keyboard wrist rest or some other type of ergonomic wrist riser. For me the keyboard needs to be about an inch in front of the wrist rest and I can type throughout the day without any problems. Earlier today I spent some time writing and thinking about how to best move forward. Certainly the keyboard helped deliver those thoughts from ideation to fill in the blank page. 

    I’m striving to spend some time writing a blog post every day and thinking about what things deserve my time. A bit of writing each day is a great way to actively engage in thinking. Over the last couple of decades I have found that the act of writing for a long period of time is enough to really help me think deeply about something. From time to time a pure type of stream of consciousness can be productive while it does open the door to some extremely useless prose generation. Imagine a lot of derivative writing about the nature of writing. Certainly, that is something that does not really have to be imagined. It exists everywhere. 

    I think 2024 will be the year that the internet fundamentally changes. We may see a shift in the way internet usage is occurring. We may very well interact and make requests differently going forward. We are going to see a lot of disruptive technology landing this year. We may look back at this next year as the year of big pivots in base technology.

  • That golden hour of writing

    Things seem to take off after those two shots of espresso in the morning. It is sort of like a golden hour of writing is possible before everybody starts to get up and move around in the morning. Capturing that potential productivity is the hard part it seems. I have to make a conscious effort to make that golden hour of productivity happen. It is about more than trying to translate the writing process to something useful. It is about activating the writing process in terms of engaging in some deeply reflective thought. Being aware of the possibility of activating that gold hour of writing is the keystone. You have to be aware of the possibility before you can actualize it in practice as a daily routine. Stumbling upon the situation is possible and could yield great results, but moving from a one off type of situation to something more sustainable requires a more active level of participation and planning. 

    All of that build up and all I want to write about is my new internet modem… 

    Earlier this month my internet provider elected to increase my overall service speed from 1 gigabit per second to 1.2 gigabits per second. This change in speed required getting a brand new modem from the internet service provider. I guess the old one was only capable of reaching that 1 Gbps threshold and the new one is slightly better. Functionally the overall speed of the internet has not changed at all in the house. The speedtest is exactly the same with the new modem running as it was with the old one operating at peak performance apparently. Both modems result in a roughly 900 Mbps experience. That speed is perfectly fine for everything that we are doing in terms of internet usage. After that realization I began reading about the CGM4331COM model and that was like going down a 15 minute internet rabbit hole. Sure that is one of the things that the internet provides. It is an nearly endless mesh of things to surf and it contains more and more rabbit holes of content daily.