hyper meta
how over what
Writers write about writing. Bloggers blog about blogging. Optimizing your tooling can help defeat your roadblocks and achieve your goals quicker. It can also become the ultimate distraction.
Doers do. Stream of consciousness thinking's strength is avoiding thinking and its associated constraints. Practice gets reduced to performance to the best of your subconscious activity. You can meet your expectations easier having laid a foundation first.
random walks
Walking in tall grass creates encounters with spawned tangents. Captivation thrusts you through rabbit holes like wormholes throughout the fringe of your knowledge. Your origin doesn't have to dictate your destination.
Practice opens the door for emergence. Deliberate and directed attempts reveal opportunities unique to you. Transforming novel situations into adjustments you capitalize upon make deviations worthwhile. Building the scaffolding for future experiments also helps.
nesting dolls
How many layers does it take to break an activity's value proposition? There's more than one way to look at writing about writing about writing. I can view it as practice, but mere practice only encourages permanence. Practices orthogonal to my grandest goals and dreams should be rooted out. Those which are properly aligned to my north star should be venerated.
I think of productivity gurus peddling advice from their perspective as universal cures. Even if they don't or I encounter other more fair sources, what do they know of what's happening in my head? People sell beliefs. Optimizing the perfect workflow seems farfetched, compared to satisficing minimum holistic achievement at the cheapest costs. Houses are built vertically, horizontally, and in the context of their environment.
pocket quicksand
If I don't need a specific product to achieve a goal of mine, why should I use it? Performance without cruft can be a freeing frame to uphold. Exerting my agency to singlehandedly achieve greatness sounds valiant. Yet, I struggle thinking up goals void of products, especially products of myself. People do not create products, goods, nor services from scratch. Perhaps the most cumbersome projects - those that defy working backwards from purported impossibility - are the ones to avoid.
Are you sure you need the product you have in mind? Maybe you need something else. Harness your voice. Exchange letters with people. Create and maintain third spaces. Lean on family: biological, found, or otherwise. Explore all possible avenues for how to do what you wish to. You won't familiarize yourself with the boundaries until you reach for them.