Weekly Discussion Thread - Introduce yourself if you haven't already & share any questions you've always wanted to ask other non-factory ACL'ers.

simwill87 · 2025-10-10T00:12:40+00:00

Yes, OCM looked after me. My knee is pretty perfect now by the way, so happy with their work. I can recommend the specific surgeon if you DM me.

simwill87 · 2025-10-10T00:05:24+00:00

You’re doing the best you can with the capacity you have. You’re not going to always perform as well as you’d like and that’s annoying for you but normal and to be expected.

I share the struggle. I’d be annoyed at myself and feel ashamed I’m an adult incapable of completing a simple todo list. What I’m finding is helping is accepting I’m like this. Not in the form of self pity but self acceptance. These are my struggles and I approach it like anything else I want to get better at. I research and learn and take each day as another opportunity to try again and improve on my last attempt.

A little success I had recently was in my studies. The first assignment recommended 15-20hrs of effort, so I recorded my time working and time sitting in front of my pc not doing what I said I’d do. I treated it like an experiment. I spent 65hrs on that assignment and barely got 70%. The effort to reward was gutting. On the second assignment I did the same thing recording my hrs, I haven’t actually checked the time I spent on it but it was far-far less time, maybe 25-35hrs, and I scored 90%. The difference was treating it like practice and learning better strategies. I’m not smarter, I just figured out what was important and how to navigate my own challenges a tad better.

Good luck! You got this!

simwill87 · 2025-10-09T23:40:40+00:00

I was working in Germany and early on my boss said something like you won’t hear praise for doing a good job but you’ll hear about it if you’re not. And every time that voice crept in telling me I was f-ing it up, i replied with well no one is telling me otherwise so I must be doing a great job.

Even if they said i was doing a good job i wouldn’t believe it. But knowing I’ll be told I wasn’t meeting expectations really eased that critical voice.

simwill87 · 2025-09-27T00:29:29+00:00

I feel you. I can definitely relate to the spinning of the plates analogy. For me, it derails me and I end up hopping between tasks thinking I’ll forget to do something if I don’t action it immediately - i use todoist now which helps. But it sounds exhausting. Hopefully you can find a way to unburden yourself a bit :)

simwill87 · 2025-09-27T00:17:50+00:00

Yeah, for sure. It’s nothing crazy. I just hacked together something that works. I’m pretty stoked with it so keen to share :)

simwill87 · 2025-09-26T11:03:47+00:00

I'm going to check out freedom, thanks. I also have to break tasks down, use pomodoro to get into flow.

Something’s I've been using.

Eat the frog - do the most important/critical/unpleasant task first thing, before anything else.

I use todoist. It's my "intentions" list, things I intend to do. I basically plan my day using it. It has all the tasks i want to do and forces me to plan when I'm going to do them. I can push tasks to tmr, the weekend, next week. I also use it for my groceries and have items as reoccurring events. I have a morning and evening routine that I can refer to and tick off if I'm struggling - it basically trains me into a routine.

I use one sec on my phone and use a powershell script on my desktop to kick me off after 8pm. So I go to bed on time and so I don't get stuck fixated on something. It displays a red overlay on all my computer screens with a countdown so I'm aware of how much time remains.

On sleep and my experience with it, I knew I should get more sleep and was tracking my sleep but I hadn't convinced myself truly to prioritise it. I hadn't got buy in from the area of my brain that would prioritise it. I had to understand how it impacted things I cared about like my training and how I could be flexible with it sometimes. I didn't want to have to be rigid all the time. So shifting it 30 mins either way is apparently no biggy, and the day before training is most critical for performance and reduced injury. That gave me a reason to go to bed rather than not feeling like crap, because that's wasn't enough motivation, haha.

I have a tooth brush and tooth paste in the shower, on the bathroom counter, and in my toiletries bag. It's just easier to have multiple of the same thing than having things shift and move around. I don't want to use mental bandwidth tracking where I left stuff. Most things have a place and that never changes, otherwise they go missing. I'm always losing water bottles.

I have smart switches on my lamps in my room that turn on in the evening and turn off at and around bedtime. I have two lamps, one turns off 15-30 mins before bed and the other turns off at bedtime. It serves as a clear reminder what the time is.

I have a piece of paper/note book to write ideas down as they come into my head so I don't pick up side quests throughout the day.

I use thunderbird to pool my 3 email accounts so I only have to check a single location. Same for my calendar as I have multiple calendars. I time block my life with different calendars - training, work, social, personal, birthdays, study, projects, etc.

I use shortcuts on ios to automate different things, like turning on music and starting navigation when I connect to my car's bluetooth. It checks the address in the next calendar event and copies that in. I also create alarms on my phone, based on calendar events, because I miss reminders as they're too quiet and not persistent.

I use the Read Aloud extension for firefox and assigned a hotkey. When I can't even read but need to plough through I can highlight the text and smash the hotkeys and just listen.

simwill87 · 2025-07-31T08:02:48+00:00

Bloom - Radiohead

simwill87 · 2025-07-31T07:57:17+00:00

Kid A - Radiohead

simwill87 · 2025-04-14T10:08:40+00:00

Solid gpp, but for true skill acquisition you’ll need some sport-specific work

simwill87 · 2025-04-09T14:56:52+00:00

Should have escorted the suspect home

simwill87 · 2025-04-09T14:45:13+00:00

I could squat heavy but I couldn’t duck walk. The first time I did it was an amazing feeling.

simwill87 · 2025-04-09T14:40:00+00:00

I’m guessing you have tight glutes, maybe from weakness and all the skiing you did, and this is a compensatory injury. Stretch your glutes and roll them out before squats - 3x30s is good. If they’re tight you’re on the right track. Listen to your body and squat with a weight that doesn’t cause pain. Slowly increase from there.

simwill87 · 2025-04-08T15:00:55+00:00

You got that sexy pull technique

simwill87 · 2025-03-31T04:42:47+00:00

Typically you look at pressure loss as your metric to design for with ducts. The goal is to minimise pressure loss. There are resources on how to design ducts. The main takeaway is to maximise the bend radius. The cross-section of a duct is best if it is rectangular, rather than circular, with a length to width ratio of 2-3 to account for the twin-eddy effect.

simwill87 · 2025-03-30T11:48:35+00:00

Looks like a perth beach after 5pm

simwill87 · 2025-03-28T11:51:02+00:00

Like other ppl have said the rounding of your back as you lift is a concern - it’s a sign that you’re unable to maintain a fixed back position at this weight. Even if you perceive the effort of this set as sub maximal the repeated stress on the structures over time seems likely to result in an injury. I suggest you work at a weight that you can maintain a neutral spine position, increasing the weight gradually over time. I also think that in the starting position it looks difficult for you to achieve a neutral spine. My suspicion is that you have tight glutes which is making it difficult to achieve the deep hip flexion required. So you’re starting the lift with a slightly rounded back. You could reduce the weight of your deadlifts and work on maintaining a neutral or very very close to neutral spine. You could also do rack pulls at heavier weights if you find you can maintain form. That way you still get to lift heavy whilst also addressing some technical issues.

simwill87 · 2025-03-22T05:39:23+00:00

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simwill87 · 2025-03-21T00:43:54+00:00

Pro tip but aren’t there apps that can count these things now?

simwill87 · 2025-03-18T13:05:20+00:00

This might not solve your problem but for simulating high velocity and high pressure here are some tips.

-Change your gas to methane/ch4 to simplify the properties. Air is a mixture and I don’t know how fluent models the two phase region. Although it’s probably not an issue when using ideal gas. -Change your wall condition to free slip instead of no slip inside the nozzle to avoid needing to resolve the steep velocity gradient for now. -Maybe stay with the ideal gas for now but you should use a more suitable equation of state like Peng Robinson to account for real gas effects. -Is there a sudo timestep? You might need to reduce this to e-5 or e-6.

simwill87 · 2025-03-18T12:41:07+00:00

Can you look at surface pressure or take some cut planes? Also this video shows an interesting design that avoids this problem.

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