towards a more efficient routine

[bubblingbeebles]

last summer i was quite happy in general, but never really managed to settle into anything, and so didn't quite ever feel totally comfortable. this summer i'm trying to do better.

biking to work is going quite well. six mile trip time started at 40 minutes and is now down to 25 minutes. i've been using my echostar flashlight (EOC swag) as a

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[xsavvyx]

Yeah, I'm pretty happy that Apple composts and recycles almost everything. And people do care about it. The first day I was there, I accidentally put some compostable food in the garbage and someone on my team informed me that at Apple, they usually compost everything. Even our napkins, plastic cups, and plastic silverware are compostable. This is a very different experience than being in Pittsburgh where CMU doesn't even have recycle bins everywhere that there's a trash can.

[bubblingbeebles]

when i got back to cmu last fall i found myself feeling guilty about tossing stuff in the trash. for some reason it wasn't until spring that i got around to managing a compost thingy in our house...

[gregh1983]

I'm missing it already in my new apartment. Throwing food scraps and paper towels away feels so strange now...

[gregh1983]

This is the first time I've heard Google's food philosophy set up as an especial act of caring. I suppose I've always thought of it as mostly a gimmick -- you know, "We are so much the pinnacle of the world that we feed you three meals a day too! You'll never have to grow up or leave the office and stop working...!"

It would be interesting if other organizations would care even a little bit about that sort of thing. As a grad student, I find myself more and more just doing the easy thing with respect to food, which typically means cheaper, borderline-healthy groceries and cheaper, who-knows-what's-in-it restaurant food. And here we're still talking about a (reasonably) well-educated person in a reasonably well-educated environment, making a reasonable amount of money given that he's a grad student. Just imagine what good could be done in inner cities or suburbs with the right kind of nudges.