Notes from intermission: airplanes, mini-courses, beastmodin’
On week 4 of intermission and we’ve got the following left:
- write some new text bits
- plot the launch of our new course on value-based design, then do it (starting next week?)
- conclude some technical fripperies with the membership migration
Which, gosh, thanks, time zone difference! Turns out when you get on an airplane for 7 hours and then consistently wake up at midnight in your home base’s time zone without telling anyone you pondhopped, you get a lot done.
I think the heaviest psychic lifts that I do ever are:
- fill a blank canvas
- ask people for money
- executional spaceholding
I’m doing all three of these right now, which might explain the necessity for intermission. All of this is deep work, and deep work is hard in the best of times, and we’re currently dealing with a lot both personally & collectively right now. So: reset button, teleport, and now I’m writing this while looking out on a canal and thousands of bikes and nothing materially has changed in this damn-near-perfect city,
Thank heavens I crank on airplanes, am I right? I wrote my most famous essay on an airplane, and ten years later I’m still known for it at conferences. This airplane, I wrote 5,000 words by the time I landed. I should book mileage runs solely to write. Get on the Island Hopper or something, I don’t know.
Anyway. New text bits. I spent a while being uncertain what to write about, but now I’m across an ocean and really seizing it again, and so things will probably come through over the next few weeks. I know the shape of the holes that I want to fill for the book, but it’s hard to force anything to happen, you know?
The best thing I read in the past week was this interview with Justin Vernon about his whole journey. I was fairly neutral on Bon Iver until I saw him play live at a festival last year, and it floored me.
Okay, that’s it. tl;dr I made a lot of progress, and will probably roll a thing out for those who are interested in learning more about our design practice next week. Exciting!