Welcome to my weblog. I write to help find my perspective, to reflect, and to give me a chance to see my ideas from different angles. Sometimes I vent. Sometimes I’m processing. Sometimes I just want to be helpful.
Real work is boring (but I love it)
I had an epiphany early this year: getting good at something isn’t about finding a groove or being especially clever, it’s about honing a method of doing something. Or lots of methods, meticulously crafted, carefully practiced, and well executed over and over again. That’s it. The problem is in discovering the method. It’s harder than you expect. It turns out that most things, while easier than you’d think, are much different than you’d expect. The process for making an excellent curry, for example, is nothing like what I had imagined, nor is the path to better photography, or art, or anything. Finding methods for things is in itself curious, and my methods for getting to good versions of things is always unexpected. ...