Dew of Your Youthhttps://dewofyouryouth.com/A blog by Jacob Shore about genealogy, language learning, faith, and software — tracing family history, studying Arabic, and thinking carefully about things that matter.enTue, 02 Jun 2026 10:02:04 UTCReed, Not Cedar: Building a Productivity System That Bends With Youhttps://dewofyouryouth.com/post/reed-not-cedar/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/reed-not-cedar/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:25:35 +0300Reed, Not Cedar: Building a Productivity System That Bends With You I built a Telegram bot to offload my executive function and accidentally gave myself a taskmaster. So I rebuilt it around one rule from the Talmud and the Daode Jing: be a reed, not a cedar — firm but yielding, advisory not prescriptive.