My Actifit Report Card: April 18 2021

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Did some writing, though it wasn’t quite as productive as I’d hoped.

I’m going to do a dangerous thing and blame it on my coursework. I’ve got two weeks left before I graduate (well, before I complete all my classes and graduation is a formality), and I’ve just been pushing myself hard on that and letting myself go on some of the other stuff that I normally do.

I’ve got this new short story that I’m working on and it’s about half-way done. That means that Aspects of Sand and Exoworld are suffering for it, which means that I need to wrap it up or stop obsessing over this one story.

But it’s very much in line with my aesthetic, and writing it is giving me some satisfaction and I think pushes my current limitations.

I’ve been very much hyped up to write, but when I sit down to write I tend to be low output, which is unusual for me because I can usually slog through a rut with hundreds or thousands of words practically unsolicited.

One thing that I wonder about is whether ending my Lenten dietary restrictions has led me to have some performance detriments because I’m consuming more caffeine and sugar, though I’ve been more moderate on some days than others and it hasn’t seemed to be a major difference.

I’ll keep an eye on it as my schedule goes from being “oh gosh I have too much stuff to juggle” to “all I have to do is write” in the next few weeks.

I also finished Cantillon’s An Essay on Economic Theory, which is interesting. It’s obviously out of date and there are some valid criticisms to be leveled at it (including the fact that it doesn’t have a fully developed theory of value and the emphasis on trade balance instead of the more practical issues to do with specie circulation, but the need to be precise about money terms didn’t really exist in Cantillon’s day because all money was specie or a promise to pay specie).

It’s interesting, because I’m pretty sure that when Cantillon gives numbers (e.g. ⅓, ⅔), he’s referring to things in shorthand. For instance, when he says that a certain portion of someone’s labor gives them their living I’m pretty sure he means that he’s simply portioning things out, and not necessarily speaking in precise terms regarding the proportion of the thirds (as we would in the modern day–that is, I think Cantillon says “a third” when we would say “one of three parts” to avoid any confusion about the mathematical equivalence).

He sometimes actually gives numbers that are clearly meant to be concrete and I can’t quite tell if he’s using magic fractions.

Next up is von Mises’ On Human Action, which I started in the past but then didn’t finish. It’s a heck of a book, at just about a thousand pages, but I think the style of prose is among the strongest of any book on economics.
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