Black Box Recordings, by InMyOwnWorld

Join me as I ignore the US federal holiday and instead work my way through my Do Deck hand until I am too exhausted to focus properly. About 50 minutes.

Restarting my morning, after a brief rest.

More of the same: doing morning tasks and preparing for my day.

Yet again motivating myself to do stuff by recording yet another episode of me, doing stuff. Including taking out the trash.

Rainy days are sapping my limited capacity for getting shit done, making my blahs twice as blah-y.. Join me on my doubly-blah morning as I medicate the cat and set myself up for the kitchening I intend to do later today.

Starting my day, medicating a cat, feeding crows, and going through my Do Deck to make sure things get done.

Starting off my post-cat-medication morning with some Do Deck organizing and replanning, due to some changes in another person’s plans. Then, I work through some of the cards in today’s hand.

Blerg.

Some dishwashing, using the recording of the episode to motivate myself to wash them, and the talking into a bluetooth earpiece as a way to keep my mind occupied while I did the washing. Enjoy.

Me, starting my day and getting my plans figured out. And processing a couple of photos. I make and post these recordings of myself talking to a potential future audience as a way to bypass some executive functioning difficulties and get some shit done. Enjoy.

A morning like many others. Me, planning and narrating, and going on tangents, as a way to motivate myself to do basic stuff around the house. Also, a slice of banana french toast.

Second attempt at recording an episode this morning. Used the hour of talking to a potential future audience as a way to motivate myself and focus for long enough to do the dishes. Enjoy.

I’m taking a short break from my pain medication, and I’m tired and sore and grumpy. In this episode, you get to hear me grump as I try to figure out how to pass an hour of time. Enjoy.

An hour-and-a-half of me, talking to myself, recording myself as I talk, planning my day and taking care of morning chores. Enjoy.

Same as usual. An unscripted, unedited, unfocused, unmonetized episode of me, an autistic ADHDer who struggles with planning, initiating, and following through with almost anything, using the act of talking to my hypothetical future audience to motivate myself to do things. 'Take one' had a technical issue about 20 minutes in, but I was still able to do an hour and twenty minutes of puttering arou...

Another episode that is much like the episodes before. The name comes from a few times I stopped talking for a minute or two, leaving only environmental noises, which included the brushing of teeth and the vaping of nicotine.

I recorded this yesterday morning. Don’t remember much about it anymore. Just another standard ‘going through my morning Do Deck cards and starting my day’ episode, I think.

A standard ‘navigating my morning as a multiply neurodivergent person, using the tools/systems I’ve put in place to help me get shit done’ episode. Yes, it’s the first of April. No, I don’t play April Fools tricks.

Just another day of me, talking at my hypothetical future audience, while starting my day, looking at my Do Deck cards, and getting my brain operating at an acceptable level of awareness. Half the typical episode length!

Another of my ‘walking around and figuring out what to do with myself’ podcast episodes. There was some experimentation with a new microphone and an audio processing app earlier today, discussed toward the middle or end of the episode, that did not lead to any changes in the (abysmally low) production quality of my podcast.

A double-length episode! Of me… rambling into a bluetooth earpiece. After a brief and unwanted hiatus that I can blame on nothing but my own brain, I’m posting episodes again. These podcast episodes are primarily for myself. What you hear is what you get.

The episode begins with me explaining how a headlamp can help me maintain focus, before quickly devolving to a severe struggle to maintain focus, then segues into the standard day planning. Then I got distracted, and it took another day to upload and publish.

Unlike most episodes, this one is not me starting my day, planning things, or getting things done. This time, I describe some of the things and systems I use to help me start my day, plan things, and get things done. Our household has plenty of executive functioning struggles. Listen as I talk about some of the ways we deal with that. . This is an unscripted, unfocused, unedited, unmonetized podca...

Needed to go from scattered to focused, so I recorded this minisode of getting myself ready to run errands. Also discussed body doubling and rubber ducking in the last few minutes.

An attempt to start my day. Pre-recording, I assembled my Do Deck hand for the day. This episode is an hour of me wandering around the house, getting some things done, and trying to find the five-foot long wooden staff that I misplaced in the house earlier in the recording. Seriously. A five or five-and-a-half foot long wooden hardwood staff. Had it in my hands. Walked into another room. Had to se...