It’s been a year and some change since I last wrote something here. I’m forcing myself to get over it through this one favorite technique of mine.
I restarted writing after joining the infamous Recurse Center, keeping lots internal but also sharing some externally. Unfortunately, shortly after this, I was afflicted with an unforgiveable blight, a new job at a buzzing startup. My enthusiastic energy turned into tunnel vision for work.
It’s been a whirlwind period and I’ve learned plenty and built lots yada yada. I kept telling myself and telling others, you know what I’m going to write about this… just need to build this one new thing… just need to launch this new product. And then… well the novelty wears off. The attention frontier shifts to what’s ahead and the period to reflect gets shunted.
Enough is enough though. I’m excited for these next few months of building and found myself needing to restart one of my favorite outlets. It’s just so easy to stay busy and stay in that tunnel vision. But I need to make time for the things that matter to me and sometimes I just need an extra ahem hand of encouragement.
Last week I made a bet with a close friend, a slap-bet that I would write and publish new post by Friday. If I lose that bet, he would win the opportunity to slap me across the face with a five-finger dose of encouragement.
I give you the slap-driven technique.
Being brought up in the milennial productivitymaxxing movement, I’ve tried a good deal of hacks to boost my daily output. Nothing helps me more than the threat of imminent encouragement.