state-sponsored actors

Interesting way to refer to the state of Texas

I would recommend taking it at a slow, steady, sustainable pace. It’s really satisfying to make huge, sweeping changes, but the things that usually make the biggest difference are the little habits and moments during the day. Incremental progress is the name of the game.

It helps me to pick a point of tension in my life and just spend some time working on that particular thing. For example, I hate when dishes build up, so I spent a whole week just focused on washing them right away. Once that feels like a sustainable routine that I can do somewhat mindlessly, I move on to another little thing.

All that time thinking it was a funny inside joke in the biological community and someone ripped it off an xkcd. Of course they did. That’s hilarious.

I was recently in a conference about synthetic biological approaches to deal with cancer. The only quote I wrote down was “this approach kills cancer in a petri dish, but so does a shotgun”

I grew up in Idaho. Can confirm, that’s basically the whole population.