I revived this site a little because I wanted to write more. On this arbitrary spectrum of verbal to written expression, I lean heavily on the written word to get my thoughts across1.

Luckily for me writing is pretty one-way; no one’s jumping in the middle of my sentence to deliver a rebuttal or an edge case, and I can harp on as long as I like!

I feel like there’s a lot of old stuff that I’ve wanted to say that I haven’t said yet. All of this old shit is damming up any space for anything new I want to explore. It’s all getting a bit stagnant up in here.

A little bit every day.

I’ll sort through those thoughts bit by bit. Like a meditation. Naval Ravikant said his meditation practice was like getting to inbox zero for the mind. It’s a bit of a corporate metaphor for a spiritual practice but I think there’s truth to relieving a stagnant lake of thoughts of their…staleness.

I’ve written about my fear of judgement before, so I won’t go on about it now, but the hesitation to announce my thoughts to my friends is very much still there.

Footnotes

  1. I’ve recently started trialling the practice of writing RFCs at work from this article I found on HN (discussion). A practice that Oxide also employs. I should write about my own practice and what I hope to get out of it. ↩