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winther.sysctl.dkQ3 2026 notesA personal quarterly review covering blogging (including hosting IndieWeb Carnival), a shift toward genre films and classic Hollywood melodrama, summer reading including Bill Gates' autobiography and Danish philosophy of art, completing a major legacy code migration at work, and a repeat family road✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50Part of the MichaelFilter
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Unlock the full reading · $5.50 →A personal quarterly review covering blogging (including hosting IndieWeb Carnival), a shift toward genre films and classic Hollywood melodrama, summer reading including Bill Gates' autobiography and Danish philosophy of art, completing a major legacy code migration at work, and a repeat family road trip to Italy that worked better the second time.
Teaching:
• The value of repeating the same structure (like quarterly reviews or daily practice) to build familiarity and recognize what to prioritize—second time through reveals what matters
• Legacy systems in the body (compensation patterns, habitual holding) require dedicated migration work that competes with 'new features' but becomes essential for sustainable practice
• The tension between hacker mindset (understanding systems, breaking rules, clever solutions) and commercial mindset mirrors internal vs external validation in practice
• Favrholdt's argument for skill and depth over shock and provocation applies to asana practice—valuing embodied understanding over performative difficulty
Writing seeds:
• Essay on practice as legacy code migration: retiring compensation patterns, the uphill battle of prioritizing foundation over flashy poses, years of almost no progress until something shifts
• Post connecting quarterly practice reviews to systems literacy—what repeating the same sequence reveals about what actually matters vs what we think should matter
• Piece on the hacker mindset in Ashtanga: wanting to understand the system, break rules intelligently, find clever solutions vs the commercial franchise model of selling licenses
• Short reflection on doing the same practice 'trip' twice: better prepared, knowing what to prioritize, when repetition serves vs when new territory is needed
Idea map:
• Quarterly reviews as systems documentation—the practice of logging reveals patterns invisible in daily execution, connects to practice as method of inquiry
• Legacy code migration mirrors practice transformation: massive critical systems that need treatment, the impossibility of maintaining broken foundations, prioritizing depth over features
• The shift from hacker mindset to commercial mindset parallels embodiment vs performance—understanding systems vs selling results
• Repetition as literacy tool: doing the same thing twice reveals what the thing actually is (second Italy trip, quarterly structure, daily practice)
Source: https://winther.sysctl.dk/q3-2026-notes/
Teaching:
• The value of repeating the same structure (like quarterly reviews or daily practice) to build familiarity and recognize what to prioritize—second time through reveals what matters
• Legacy systems in the body (compensation patterns, habitual holding) require dedicated migration work that competes with 'new features' but becomes essential for sustainable practice
• The tension between hacker mindset (understanding systems, breaking rules, clever solutions) and commercial mindset mirrors internal vs external validation in practice
• Favrholdt's argument for skill and depth over shock and provocation applies to asana practice—valuing embodied understanding over performative difficulty
Writing seeds:
• Essay on practice as legacy code migration: retiring compensation patterns, the uphill battle of prioritizing foundation over flashy poses, years of almost no progress until something shifts
• Post connecting quarterly practice reviews to systems literacy—what repeating the same sequence reveals about what actually matters vs what we think should matter
• Piece on the hacker mindset in Ashtanga: wanting to understand the system, break rules intelligently, find clever solutions vs the commercial franchise model of selling licenses
• Short reflection on doing the same practice 'trip' twice: better prepared, knowing what to prioritize, when repetition serves vs when new territory is needed
Idea map:
• Quarterly reviews as systems documentation—the practice of logging reveals patterns invisible in daily execution, connects to practice as method of inquiry
• Legacy code migration mirrors practice transformation: massive critical systems that need treatment, the impossibility of maintaining broken foundations, prioritizing depth over features
• The shift from hacker mindset to commercial mindset parallels embodiment vs performance—understanding systems vs selling results
• Repetition as literacy tool: doing the same thing twice reveals what the thing actually is (second Italy trip, quarterly structure, daily practice)
Source: https://winther.sysctl.dk/q3-2026-notes/
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