Just a bunch of unrelated thoughts that came to my mind recently.

After finishing >10% of my backlog I confidently realized – drop long works is so much easier than dropping short ones. Whether it’s a book or game, there are two questions:

• “Am I ready to spend >10 hours on something I’m not sure I’m really interested in?”
• “It’s small, there’s only an hour left. Why not?”

First one is easier to answer with “Totally no”, but for the second answer often “Yeah, why not, it’s just an hour”. And so I dropped “Assassin’s Creed: Mirage” after the real game began, but couldn’t drop “Koira” which is a mediocre experience after all.

Idea – make redirect links for all services I am on, with my subdomains. I already did it for wishlist and now I can change service at any time, but my friends will keep a working link. Next ones – messenger and code repository.

Just an observation in the comments section of Youtube video by a single creator. Comment with something good, but it looks like: “Hey, he is …”. Dude, you’re telling good things about creator, but not to him directly. Is this conversation style or just thirst for engagement? I don’t know, but in my eyes all good is gone. Maybe I’m overthinking it.

It’s also connected with “about” sections on personal sites when people talk about themselves as third person. I kinda understand it for some public figures, with real popularity, but not for personal blogs of absolutely random people. Fake it till you make it? Culture differences? I don’t know but for me it’s not authentic at all, even for personal brand.

Zettelkasten by Niklas Luhmann is now widely used in personal knowledge management. And maybe Niklas was superproductive with it, but it’s not the only way to achieve productivity. There were many other scientists, who didn’t use this system but still achieved many things. It’s hype, obviously, with all this PKM/Second brain stuff, but… I don’t know, maybe the strangest thing for me is that Zettelkasten is an analogue system and digital notes already fix some link problems by their nature, but people still want to identify each document and so on. Yeah, I’m not a fan.

My English really needs practice. I thought – ok, there is no regular practice for speaking and writing, but I’m on a good level. Hell no, I forget simple words and constructions. Use AI translator? Yeah, at some point, maybe for some difficult topic or really long post, but certainly not for these thoughts-series posts. It’s good practice.

I always thought of Black Mirror series as adaptations of short stories. And I often like the idea but don’t like realization.

Recently I read multiple short stories and for many of them I had the same complaint. And I thought: maybe it’s not about the quality of the idea or the realization, but more about that some ideas need more time to be fully revealed in all their aspects, need more space to breathe?