{"id":6107,"date":"2026-06-23T04:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=6107"},"modified":"2026-06-23T04:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:36:14","slug":"because-im-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/because-im-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Because I&#8217;m Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m working through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucksexton.com\/manufacturing-delusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buck Sexton&#8217;s book<\/a>.  It was one of the ones on my to-read list while I was in massive money-saving mode.  It&#8217;s probably will have enough there for a good OWT entry.  Finally.  Something I can do on the way back.  I will say that I do not like the new roomette cars.  It is a pain to put on shoes every time nature calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, prompts&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What&#8217;s the most important lesson I&#8217;ve learned about myself this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can just stop.  And sometimes holding my tongue really isn&#8217;t the best thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How am I already shaping that story today?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I said, working on that book review.  Some of the things I was consuming podcast-wise just weren&#8217;t adding anything to my life, really.  Yes, I&#8217;m still listening to lots of things, but rolling in books while writing about them, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noagendashow.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No Agenda<\/a> seems to suffice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working through Buck Sexton&#8217;s book. It was one of the ones on my to-read list while I was in massive money-saving mode. It&#8217;s probably will have enough there for a good OWT entry. Finally. Something I can do on the way back. I will say that I do not like the new roomette cars. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6147,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions\/6147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}