Even if you need to really shoehorn a component of the system in, just make a note about it and keep building. When you're done, you can go back and focus on replacing that one piece.

My view is that you learn a lot through the process of building this way.

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I love the physical buttons and simple lcd screen for status.

I do wish I had purchased one that accepted a microSD card like yours though.

Kindle is another example of a single-tasking device I enjoy using.

Do you have a physical build machine? Or in the cloud? And did you build it or order it from somewhere?

> Discussing the letters in the passphrase is not the same as revealing it or discussing it. For N from 1 to the length of the word, write a random word that starts with the nth letter of the passphrase.

So I started journaling. I eventually built a good habit of doing it once a week. Every week, I read the previous entry and then write a new entry. Around the end of the year, I go back and read the whole year.

I prefer to use a physical journal with nice paper and a decent pen.

It has been very transformative for me. I write about my experiences and I write about what I read. I also write about what changes I want to make, and reflect on how changes I wanted to make are going.

Reviewing my thoughts in this way has led me 1) to be more forgiving of myself, focusing more on growth instead of failure and 2) to make incremental progress on objectives I have.