Calorie tracking is also about educating yourself about how many calories certain things are, so you can make better decisions.

Like, oil is insanely caloric and can accidentally add hundreds of calories, but it's nearly impossible to eat too many greens.

Once you learn this, then the tracking is just to keep you honest - your brain knows what to do but it lies to you when it wants to bend the rules and those little cheats add up enough to throw off the whole diet.

> Emacs is a powerful tool, but it also demands a lot from its user. Eventually I got tired of dealing with the host of plugins and customizations that I needed to keep my system running the way I wanted. I'm at a point in my life where I would rather spend my spare time on hobbies, hanging out with family and friends, and otherwise not messing around with a patchwork of ELisp code snippets that I've cobbled together from various sources. I gradually stopped using Emacs in favor of more modern tools that are less flexible but also less of a hassle.

I don't know how many times I've read a variation on this. It took me a very long time, but now I pretty much made my peace with that: I use Emacs (for certain things), I use VS Code (with Emacs bindings), I use Apple Notes.. I don't find that it's possible or reasonable anymore, the desire to be "pure" and use only ONE tool to rule them all. The same for messaging apps, chatbots, etc.. I now embrace extreme diversity.

I only read as far as the author's first email to a movie muckity-muck, but if he actually used that tone in his communications with the studio, it is very unsurprising that they mostly ignored and sidelined him.

The movies were, apparently, terrible. I didn't see them myself, but I am sure they're about as good as the other awfully YA-fantasy adaptations from that era that aren't Harry Potter (Eragon, which I'm pretty sure is what the XXXXs refer to and Golden Compass, for example), but this email is not the way that you exert influence over a major creative endeavor.

Edit: I went back and read the longer email. The actual discussion of improvements is potentially good, but the overall tone is one of arrogance and an assumption of superior vision, which is just not the way you make progress.