Next goal: fewer projects
Jul. 16th, 2012 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anansi133What I learned from the cacophony society and again at burning man, is that being weird in style takes a surprising amount of focus and effort. So learning to cull a project before it becomes an albatross is a skill that can conserve a lot of energy and avoid mess.
But now that the maker movement is picking up steam, it's hard not to want to participate. Every new flashy web headline is another invitation to a larger conversation.
So that's got me thinking that every successfully completed project is like a sentence with a period at the end. And the nightmare garage full of unordered building materials and half finished projects, those are run on sentences with too many commas, that don't really fit into any sort of paragraph.
Back when I was learning to talk and then to write and then to post- It took a while to learn the discipline to not say whatever popped into my head. Same with this project thing: If I can head off more projects before they take up space in the real world, I'll have more room for when i really do have something to say.
It's tempting to rush out and buy an inventor's notebook now, but that smells like another project. Perhaps I'll just try to better organize the computer record of projects I have already finished.
Oh, and bragging rights. I have to get more satisfaction from the things I've finished, so that the feeling lasts longer and I'm not just cooking up another fix right away.
But now that the maker movement is picking up steam, it's hard not to want to participate. Every new flashy web headline is another invitation to a larger conversation.
So that's got me thinking that every successfully completed project is like a sentence with a period at the end. And the nightmare garage full of unordered building materials and half finished projects, those are run on sentences with too many commas, that don't really fit into any sort of paragraph.
Back when I was learning to talk and then to write and then to post- It took a while to learn the discipline to not say whatever popped into my head. Same with this project thing: If I can head off more projects before they take up space in the real world, I'll have more room for when i really do have something to say.
It's tempting to rush out and buy an inventor's notebook now, but that smells like another project. Perhaps I'll just try to better organize the computer record of projects I have already finished.
Oh, and bragging rights. I have to get more satisfaction from the things I've finished, so that the feeling lasts longer and I'm not just cooking up another fix right away.
