Instead, every time you exert control over the giant system that is you, that control gets weaker.

Interesting. I wonder what the impact is on people with ADD, who already have problems with executive functioning. Probably just magnifies it.

If the problem is your brain needing more glucose, it seems to me that you could increase your willpower simply by eating more chocolate.

At least, that's the theory I'll be testing today.

I'm going to have to think about that ego depletion article after I get some glucose to my prefrontal cortex. Interesting.

That is indeed what makes them so interesting, Matilda. Smart girl.

Matt, I'm not sure if you were actually looking for an answer, but this was the first episode Purefoy was in.

If the problem is your brain needing more glucose, it seems to me that you could increase your willpower simply by eating more chocolate.

I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Matt, I'm not sure if you were actually looking for an answer, but this was the first episode Purefoy was in.

Good to know. I tuned in for the first time in a while because all the promos had that guy in the towel illustrating the dangers of being too pretty in prison, but Purefoy was a pleasant surprise.

Check out this Photoshop disaster: Hippy Chick

I do not have the willpower to read the ego depletion article.

ION, RED TOENAILS! They make many things better.

Today is clean things off my desk day. big boss is back tomorrow and I need to have 2-4 reports on his desk and waiting for him. Right now I only have 1 ready.

If your ego is depleted and your executive functions can't prevent you from slacking off on the internets, here's a good time-waster:

H.P. Lovecraft Answers Your Relationship Questions

Dear Howie,

Last week I received a “you probably don’t remember me” note from a man I went to a school dance with nineteen years ago. He is married and has three kids, but states he is not happy. What should I do?

Concerned Lady

Dear Concerned Lady: –

Although humankind has a yearning toward whatever is redolent of mystery and allurement, it is well that certain lacunae in our knowledge should remain forever unfilled. Your shadowy correspondent’s mention of the ill-regarded numbers nineteen and three recalls an unutterable experiment performed on sticklebacks by the Swedish icthyologist Dalgaard. I dare not describe his observations, but he concluded that, the longer we can remain innocent of our place in the cosmos, the better it must augur for our mental integrity. He came to understand there was more meaning than is commonly supposed in the nebulous half-inscriptions found on abandoned wharves — while who knows what malign significance underlies the latest findings on the growth of angiosperms, or the cycle of the solar spots? What of the transgalactic pulsings that have cost more than one astronomer his powers of reasoning? I have heard it whispered that the imprints found on Dalgaard’s pillow, toward the end, resembled the fronds of a kind of bracken previously unknown to botany. The muffled clattering sounds from my roof impel me hastily to conclude,

Yrs most cordially & sincerely, – HPL.

Wow, I have wasted almost the whole morning! I did buy the ridiculous eyebrow thing.

In news of how I am middle-aged or something, I just realized I can't go to the library fundraiser (with Lee Child!!) next week, because that's the day of my cooking class! Ah well.

that ego depletion shit is interesting.

That is now going to be my favorite excuse. Sorry, but I had to hold my tongue in the 9am meeting with [asshole colleague #1]. I no longer have any willpower. You will bear the brunt of my lack of willpower and sharp tongue.

Enjoy.