Flywheel
On Pipelines
One idea I had for keeping up daily blog posts was to build up a pipeline of shovel-ready topics in case I didn’t have any topics to write about that day. Right now, I have 10 unpublished drafts that could be picked up and expounded upon. In theory, this sounds great – in reality, I haven’t picked up those drafts since originally starting them. My current workflow is to start Read More
On Incremental Deliverables
I mentioned this early on in starting this blog, but I thought that one of the things that would keep me blogging was the satisfaction of small victories. Each blog post I finished would be a complete deliverable, giving me regularly scheduled wins. That would build internal motivation to continue, because I’d get get inherent satisfaction from writing more and more blog posts. While I do think this satisfaction has Read More
Februrary Update
I’ve really been lagging on my output recently – I guess after losing my initial burst of motivation, I dropped my posting habit as soon as something interrupted my daily routine. I don’t think there’s any point in assigning blame in skipping my posts, but I do think there’s merit in looking at what I can do in the future to build on this habit and to minimize this kind Read More
Going Off Track
I’ve been missing blog posts recently. I have a laundry list of excuses for why this happened, but the more I think of it, I don’t really know why I missed as many days as I did. At end of the day, the people you’re delivering work to don’t give a shit why you’re late on producing work, and in my case, I should hold myself to the same standard. Read More
On Improvement
One of my favorite authors is Nobuyuki Fukumoto. One of these themes he touches on frequently is the road to personal growth and the many obstacles in the way of self improvement. This comes up over and over again in one of his most popular works – Kaiji. The concept behind Kaiji is simple – some random deadbeat who’s never accomplished anything in his life finds himself in life or Read More
Lucid Dreaming
A while ago I was interested in learning to lucid dream. The motivation petered out, but I still think lucid dreaming has a lot of potential as side interest. One area that would be worth exploring is using lucid dreaming as a staging ground for therapeutic purposes – essentially a safe environment to overcome trauma or work on social cues. Lucid dreaming is the concept of controlling your dreams, or Read More
On sleep
Sleep is great – I never regret the extra time I spend sleeping. On the other side of the coin, I often regret not going to sleep earlier. I always function at a lesser capacity when I don’t get enough sleep. It’s unfortunate that I do stay up past my bed time, because it’s usually the case that whatever I’m doing isn’t as important as getting enough rest, and I Read More
Rubber Duck Blogging
I have many inspirations for blogging, but I think the biggest impetus for me was this post by Steve Yegge: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/you-should-write-blogs The post goes on to state the various benefits of blogging, but the one I want to focus on is the concept of rubber duck blogging. For those unfamiliar with the concept, rubber duck programming is something done when a programmer is stuck on their project and unsure of how Read More
On The Benefits of Blogging: Total Recall
One benefit of blogging that I’m looking forward to is improved memory recall. While I don’t know if my overall memory will be improved, I will be able to better recall the memories that I’ve written in blog posts, because I’ve spent time wiring them deeper in my brain by examining them in further detail. I had a friend who would write about the food he ate in restaurants to Read More
My First Setback!
I broke my posting streak – I think it’s been two days since I wrote my last blog post. I’m actually writing this blog post at 2:00AM. I had plenty of opportunity to write up my blog post for the previous day, but I kept putting it off because I figured I had plenty of time to do it later. That’s an important takeaway from this – don’t put things Read More