Week 1 review (Sunday 2026-08-16)

  • Week 1 — practice review, slide deck for Roger — planned vs actual, the matrix, charts, and the pre-call interview (16 Aug)
  • 👆 it’s 23:00 on Sunday, I had Claude prepare this and it has some errors that I cba to correct this right now
  • So useful stuff it shows:
    • I missed a fair amount of sits but still did a good amount
    • I got nerd-sniped by the iAm app (which I really like) and didn’t do many of the “open awareness somatic awareness” sits → I probably did 2-3 of these and had some really cool moments of noticing new somatic things, and also noticed some somatic stuff off the cushion (e.g. the feeling of rushing). Can see the profundity of this! I also re-read the Vasocomputation ~paper which helped pill me on the whole “tanha is somatic clenching”, and I think I remember Roger saying that dukkha = somatic clenching too. So this does feel more directly looking at tanha/dukkha than Charlie Awbery-style open awareness meditation! đź‘€
    • Didn’t do any of the social “out at a cafe”-type stuff
    • Didn’t think about the macro practice very much