{"id":11568,"date":"2022-11-01T18:39:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/1000\/?p=11568"},"modified":"2022-11-01T18:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:40:01","slug":"0816-figuring-out-next-steps-oct-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/1000\/0816-figuring-out-next-steps-oct-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"0816 \u2013 figuring out next steps, oct 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I find myself kinda grouchy about how little time and space i seem to have to do all the things i want. I want to research ancient cities&#8230; partially as part of a broader curiosity about how the world works, how civilisations work, scenes, progress, creativity and destruction&#8230; there&#8217;s so much i want to read but then i get tired<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>grumpy and frustrated at how i&#8217;ve been sleeping so much, weird long hours. but I should be kinder to myself, I am still recovering from covid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>slightly tired of doing paragraphing and punctuation and whatnot, i just want to do a braindump<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it&#8217;s the first of november. did a bit of housecleaning which was satisfying. i&#8217;m a bit bored of tweeting. i want to be writing substack essays but i was stuck on that for a while, and I think I need to do more reading and riffing (which is why I&#8217;m here in my wordvomits) before I can write some good essays. maybe i should just log off twitter for a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nah, don&#8217;t think about what you don&#8217;t want to do, think about what you <em>do<\/em> want to do. Focus on what you want to see more of. It&#8217;s 1am and I&#8217;m going to go to bed soon. What would I be happy to have done in my final minutes of the night? I would be happy to write and publish a wordvomit. So let&#8217;s do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Met a friend a couple of days ago, always a good idea, great to be around optimistic, ambitious, idealistic people and talk openly and freely without having to caveat and be subtle and so on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>what&#8217;s on my mind right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>would like the house to be cleaner \u2013 need to talk with S about this<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>would like to have more money \u2013 tidy up marketing blog, write a post, update, tweet about it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do I want the money for? renovate the house. and I&#8217;d also like a suit, some nice clothes. throw out old clothes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reshuffle my books \/ libraries to pick the books that i&#8217;m most excited about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The big\/main thing on my mind right now I guess&#8230; it&#8217;s the meta of all the other things, right. there&#8217;s a lot of stuff i want to do. but i have limited time and energy. yes, focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of, that&#8217;s 101.  201 would be to learn project management. someone said that the project management section of my book introspect is some of the densest, highest value&#8230; lemme quote it directly&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">this is the highest value 8 pages of any book <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UmRY1QozHy\">pic.twitter.com\/UmRY1QozHy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Pradyumna (@PradyuPrasad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PradyuPrasad\/status\/1568656585282682881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>yeah, I agree. I compressed a lot to get this in place. I should maybe write a substack post about it separately, or just write about it more<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>like, just because I&#8217;ve written about it doesn&#8217;t mean i&#8217;m excellent at it. I&#8217;ve gotten better at it, and i&#8217;m good at writing, so I&#8217;ve done a pretty good job of describing my journey from bad to not-bad, but I want to get really good at it, and this feels like the primary bottleneck in my life right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>andy grove might say there are two possible bottlenecks, you&#8217;re either unwilling or unable, you either need motivation or training. &#8220;motivation&#8221; here is not as simple as just dispensing some encouraging words (and I&#8217;ve spoken before about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gR6L422799I\">my frustration with &#8220;motivational speaker&#8221; as a label<\/a>), but about managing your psychology, which is The Hard Problem. and then&#8230; inability, i feel like&#8230; the training I need right now is project management training, which is breaking down big things into smaller things, figuring out manageable tasks, doing them, celebrating the successes and progresses. maybe I should re-read introspect LOL, it&#8217;s been long enough that I don&#8217;t really remember what was in it, and I&#8217;ll probably surprise myself with parts of it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and\/but yea thinking again also about the art of dealing with constraints, I know I&#8217;ve written about that too but I&#8217;m looking to synthesise a bunch of it in a way that is currently useful to me. which, as I&#8217;m saying out loud, I realise is what I do for my marketing consulting clients \u2013 I pull together a bunch of stuff and I help to present them with something that feels fresh, compelling, manageable, come up with next steps&#8230; so a succinct way of framing what I want to do is be my own consultant, ha<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>so okay, if I were to consult for myself, how would that go? Well, first I would ask my client a bunch of questions. <strong>what are you trying to accomplish?<\/strong> And I would say, gosh, okay. I want to write a bunch of essays, for starters. That feels like the most important thing. Alright, are you sure? Well there&#8217;s also the question of making money, but I think if I get the essays right everything else should fall into place. Ok, cool. Why are the essays important? Well&#8230; tweets are a certain way of thinking, and books are a certain way of thinking, and essays are also a certain way of thinking. I&#8217;ve &#8220;solved for tweets&#8221; and I&#8217;ve &#8220;solved for books&#8221; in ways that I find satisfactory, but I haven&#8217;t yet &#8220;solved for essays&#8221; and it&#8217;s been driving me mad, lol. It&#8217;s funny because I started out writing essays before I wrote tweets or books. 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