What I’m Doing Now

I used to have a mailing list, but it was too much work to maintain, so you can still pull my RSS feed or check back to this page for the latest:

• 2024-09-04 A Felony Postmortem
• 2024-08-12 The Value of Devaluation
• 2024-08-02 Dopamine Privilege
• 2024-07-14 Obsessive Deficient Attention Disorder
• 2024-06-16 Momentum Mori

WHAT I MUST DO:

• Working in an insurance office right now.
• Preparing to move to Texas in an RV.
• Figuring out life with a stunningly beautiful, alexithymic, artistically gifted woman at the maximum threshold of the Crazy/Hot Matrix.
• Slowly succumbing to the standard mental decline caused by maintaining two schoolchildren until they’re old enough to vote.

MY HOBBY:

Marching through my Grandiose Essay-Writing Mission, loosely guided by a Johnny.Decimal-like system:

• It consists of 14,564 files, each one containing between 1 and 10 elements.
• As I go, each condensation or output will make fewer files, but each re-categorization will likely make more files.
• The number is moderately arbitrary relative to results, thereby avoiding the risk of Goodhart’s Law while also implying I’ve made some sort of progress.

I’ve categorized them by type:

• articles – links, a page here and there, and other wayward miscellany that will mostly make its way to my essays.
• edit – content on my essays will be edited for proofing, coherence, brevity, urbanity, inherence, and illegibility.
• games – computer games that are (presumably) educational. Edutainment!
• guides – actual instructions by nerds who outclass me. Will make my essays shine like a dying star, but some will become the primitives for future projects.
  • beginner guides – actual instructions for derps.
  • advanced guides – actual instructions for smart derps.
  • specific guides – actual instructions for niche derps.
• text – typed notes I’ve stored away, sometimes for years. Goes straight to my essays, stat!
• tools – goes straight to my toolbox, but I may have to comment on it on an essay if there’s a bazillion of them.
• videos – inferior-quality content, meant for linear consumption, will probably throw it out once the hoarding gland swelling goes down.

This page is part of Derek Sivers’ /now movement. By keeping me accountable to the public, it forces me to rein in lofty, impractical ambitions and focus on what’s next.