GRIZZLY PEAR

written snapshots

Category: Morning Notes

  • Journal Notes (11/20, 11/23, 11/26)

    11/26
    Part of our role as parents is to make the kids uncomfortable.
    They don’t enjoy it, but we can’t let them settle into a bad local optima.
    (that afternoon, we took the training wheels off his bike)

    11/23
    Life is funny, it takes you places.
    I play a part by going along.
    But I tend towards the passive.
    Most likely comes from my mom.

    11/20
    I write lists.
    Making tasks visible lets me manipulate them.
    Maybe even cross shit without doing them
    (because I realize they’re unimportant).
    I do love my lists.
    Be careful about procrastinating by list.
    Do the work!

  • Why I write (and publish)

    1. So I don’t forget. To crystalize a moment.
    2. It sharpens my thinking. Writing squeezes out the slop in a stray notion.
    3. Sharing for the future. My work isn’t best-in-class, but it’s not worthless. A future reader might find threads of silver amongst the dross. That person might be me.
    4. To get better at writing. Posting publicly hones the craft. Leveling up can be its own joy (and help with work emails and memos.)
    5. For the company, to be part of a conversation and contribute to the zeitgeist. It’s fun to get responses and comments.

    Blogging is an exercise of whispering into the hurricane. My practice is more about self improvement than broadcasting. The reception of others are a fickle shadow. The privilege is in doing work.

    In the moment it isn’t easy fun like watching a video, but I find a deeper joy through all parts of the process, drafting, editing, posting. Why else would I do this for fifteen years?

    ~231109