Band-Aids

You should carry around a band-aid everywhere.

It'll fit in a wallet easily, or even a phone case. Zero effort, and the one time next year you scrape a knuckle you'll be glad to have it. Or when your friend does.

It's not really about health or sanitation (though those are important), it's for peace of mind.

Every time I've used mine, it's wasn't for something that required a band-aid. Being able to cover even a tiny wound let me go about my day without having to check I wasn't about to reopen it. If it does, no big deal, the band-aid will handle it.

It's unfortunate that papercuts are caused by something which easily shows blood.

If you don't have any, go buy a box. Some basic first aid would be ideal, but if you don't have anything at all band-aids are cheap, low fuss, and don't expire¹.

- Rew

Nightly Notes

There are many things I think most people would benefit from carrying more often, but this has to be the best ratio of high value, low hassle, and uncommon.

We can do better than phonewalletkeys without significantly increasing mental load.

Hence band-aid in wallet, not in addition.

Anyway.

I think I've finally started to pick up on how I tend to write. In the intuitive sense of "how would I approach this topic", not the factual statement of "I write this way". Took a while, I know.

I think the trigger was multiple days of having to bang out something under a time constraint. We all revert to some baseline under pressure, I just hadn't seen mine yet.

I'm not sure what to do about it, but you can't change without knowing where you started. Something to mull over.

Always tomorrow, never today.

- Rew