teapot7

Get plenty of sleep. Eat well. Exercise. Don't read articles about creativity.

Fewer brackets, not less brackets.

Sometimes complaining does some good. From the Pharo mailing list, directly addressing your comment:

"yep, I'm already addressing some of the good observations this guy made. In particular, I'm a long time enemy of the one-click images, so I'm killing them (and replacing it for more suitable platform specific builds)." ... "The new scripts produces structures that can fit better into the platforms where they will run.

You can check them here: http://files.pharo.org/platform/

Maybe have another go?

So true - and sadly so common. If I had my way every website for a program/ide/library/plugin/whatever would clearly state on the front page just what the hell it is!

Glad to see Pharo making such excellent progress - they're doing wonderful work.

A book called "Change Your Mind: A practical guide to Buddhist meditation" was very good for me. It's written by an English Buddhist monk, but is singularly free of any mystical or religious content.

Here's a dumb trick that's helped me run: I set up a custom playlist on my .mp3 player which goes for exactly as long as I intend to run that day. Then I run until the music stops.

It's trivial, but it's made a real difference.