Media diet
The concept of a “media diet” is one that I think I originally stole from Steven Soderbergh by way of Kottke.org. The idea is a simple one: write down whatever media (in my case video games, books, movies, and/or television) you watched that day.
This started out as a lazy compulsion, but I’ve grown rather found of this habit over time. “You are what you eat”, and all that — I’ve realized that paying more attention to how I’m spending my consumptive time has made me more focused on consuming what I’m interested in, and not simply what’s easiest. (I don’t think it’s coincidental that since starting this, I’ve started watching much less television.)
Additionally, media is a surprisingly good cursor with which to paginate my memory; I don’t necessarily remember what March 2018 was like, but I can look back and see what I was reading and playing back then — Ni No Kuni II, and Claudius The God — and suddenly I am taken back to my old apartment on Capitol Hill, and my three weeks of funemployment before Stripe, and how thrilled (& anxious) I was!
(Finished bits of media have links to my thoughts on them.)
Postwar
The Decline And Fall Of Practically Everybody
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
The Song of Achilles
The White Queen
The Life and Times of Prince Albert
Xenoblade Chronicles
Slay the Spire
Ethics in the Real World
To the Lighthouse
The Thin Man
Rune Factory 4
Ugly Delicious
Topics of Conversation
Final Fantasy XIV
Business Adventures
Luigi's Mansion 3
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Final Fantasy XIV
Obviously Awesome
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
The End is Always Near
The Wizard and the Prophet
Battle Chasers
CrossCode
Paddleton
The Friend
The master & Margarita
The Story of The Lost Child