Slept in and awoke after dawn.
What is my quest for today?
Write in the morning. Use the best hours for the most important task. Light exercise at lunchtime. Then project management in the afternoon.
Slow-paced, no time pressure, just organize and re-organize thoughts and documents — this is the way the path reveals itself to me.
Tools are unimportant. Word is fine. Make, move, delete folders of documents on my laptop? Is fine. (Remember that, because you had a blinding flash of “Airtable would be good for this.”).
No. As soon as a tool becomes the thing, I’m optimizing for the tool, not for the task. Optimize for thinking. Perversely, simple text files introduce — rather than eliminate — thinking friction. Or maybe they reduce so much friction that my brain doesn’t have enough time to cogitate the permutations.
Anyway. Happy Saturday. It will include a hamburger mid-day because I want one. No running today, because today is a rest day. Some bodyweight stuff (squats, pushups etc.) will be fine.
Nice day.
Dear Diary. 🙃
That note above (“Dear Diary”) is me expressing exasperation at the shallowness of what I write in five minutes. Let’s allow shallow to exist and see what 10,000 shallow blog posts/diary entries/whatever these are can do to drain the shallow out of me and get to the real.