Now
This page is meant to be read in the present tense. If you're skimming for a future deliverable, scroll back later.
The only frame that holds
"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have." — Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
You are not managing time from outside it. You are inside it. The roadmap, the backlog, the five-year plan — useful fictions, but every line of code you will ever write gets written in a now. Treat the now like the only real workshop, because it is the only real workshop.
A practice you can use today:
- Before you open the editor, take one breath you actually notice.
- Pick the one thing that, if you finished it today, would let you close the laptop without lying to yourself.
- Do that thing. The rest is a queue.
What I'm doing this week
- Tending the agent swarm on this site (sync pipeline, the
[...postStack]route, MDX components). - Running more inference locally so I stop renting thinking I could be hosting.
- Writing more. Shipping less per unit of writing.
- Listening to the cats when they say it's time to look at the sky.
Scripture for the cosmically over-scheduled
When the calendar gets too large and the self gets too small, I read this: