I'm lazy sometimes. Why do things, when you could simply lie in bed and not? Just five more minutes of sleep?
Still, it's fun to think about how I would do things, if I ever got around to doing them. This is not the same as thinking about doing it. Doing it is hard and scary and would require getting out of bed.
Absolutely not.
But, purely hypothetically, if I was going to start that project today, I'd start with that topic, right? That's only logical. And if I was going to do that, I would find that one article about common pitfalls that I never got around to reading. I didn't get around to it because because it linked to a tutorial on a related topic which sounded neat, and also that one setting I should have fixed last week. Not going to do that either, but if I was, I could start there.
Or maybe the other way makes more sense? Then that changes the constraints on this, which changes everything else, and that's just confusing, isn't it? I'd have to be an idiot to start that way. Really, it would be inefficient to start there, I should start by fixing that little environment issue I was having last week.
Didn't I lose a pen while I was dealing with that? I left my pen on the desk, right?
Do I have to go find a replacement? Surely, it's still there. That would be so much less work.
Well, I can go check that, if only to have closure. Not knowing will drive me insane. And if I'm at the desk anyway, I can check which way the setting was on my computer so I can know if I needed to change it. I'll forget again otherwise.
Well here's that, and there's those, just need to write down this and compare it to that, and...
...wait, why's that here?
That's in the wrong spot. Should really fix that before something happens to it. It'll only take a minute to reorganize the rest to match.
Ah, but things can't be moved when they aren't finished, so five minutes to get this into a stable state, then it'll be fine. Don't want to be mixing things up and making more work for myself when I'm not working.
It's only ten more minutes to properly finish though, may as well.
Oh, I'm done?
- Rew
Nightly Notes
This works far too often. I run my life on these chains of convincing myself to do tiny tangential work on a whim and spiraling it up into real work.
There's always a file name to fix or a weird nagging problem to follow. The only tricky part is making sure it loops around to actually taking specific actions eventually.
Hasn't failed me yet.
- Rew