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What Moving House Reminded Me About Getting My Writing Done
I’ve been banging on about writing and infrastructure for a while on this journal, but I’ve recently found a fantastic metaphor for the importance of your set-up. As I’ve mentioned a few times, we recently moved house, trading our tiny one-bedroom flat for a two-bedroom, two-story townhouse. It’s been a considerable amount of work to move in—and the job’s still not done—but we’re already seeing the impact of our new home on our step counts. My spouse and I both wear health trackers to log our daily steps and sleep, although we’ve never been diligent about hitting the 10,000 steps a day goal (which is, itself, less a health thing than a marketing gimmick from one of the earliest wearable step trackers).