#Alfred keepingyouawake mac os x#
#Alfred keepingyouawake series#

Or, you can be effective, achieve mastery, and freedom by small decisions.Īll you have to do in life is the next right thing. You can be held hostage by small decisions. In twenty years.Įpictetus asked twenty centuries ago: “What is a good person?” The one, he reflected, who achieves tranquility by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, “What is the right thing to do now?” With interest, how much it would be in ten years. Everything matters.Ĭonsider the very small decision of stopping for a $4 coffee each day. Knowing that we don’t know, we have to assume that everything we do is important. We recognize in parenting, from the very beginning, that we really don’t know which interactions or words will be really important, or even remembered. Internal bargaining took care of others: “Just this one time” or “I’ll pay it off next month.” Segmentation of the pleasure of the purchase from the pain of payment obviated any lingering questions.Ĭonsider the inverse: the nobility of small decisions. “It’s just a couple of French fries” thinking. Some were necessary, some justified, some rationalized. KeepingYouAwakes icons are Retina-compatible and do look nice in the dark themed menu bar. More likely, it was hundreds of small decisions, all along the way. KeepingYouAwake is described as small menu bar utility for macOS (Version 10.13 and newer) that can prevent your Mac from entering sleep mode for a predefined duration or as long as it is activated and is a prevent sleep mode app in the os & utilities category. If you are burdened by credit card debt, it probably wasn’t one huge purchase that created the problem.

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#Alfred keepingyouawake mac os x#

And, if we were able to see ahead to the end results of those small decisions, we may chart an entirely different course. Inspired by the Mac OS X version, Caffeine for Linux is a status bar application able to temporarily prevent the activation of both the screensaver and the 'sleep' powersaving mode.

#Alfred keepingyouawake series#

* To achieve the feat of gaining 40 pounds in 10 years, all you have to do is consume an extra 35 calories every day.Įconomist Alfred Kahn described how we become trapped by the series of seemingly insignificant choices that we make – the tyranny of small decisions. * One pound of stored fat represents 3500 calories(14700Kj) * This is approximately 1/100th of a pound per day (1/3 pound divided by 30 days) (.005kg) * 40 pounds divided by 10 years equals 4 pounds (1.84Kg) per year

* Putting on 40 pounds over 10 years means gaining an average of four pounds per year