[PREV - THE_HIGH_ROAD_TRAP]    [TOP]

LONG_WARMUP

                                                  August  9, 2013

I've know what I need to know to work
on this for years.  Over five years,
maybe even for ten.

I've barely made a dent in it.

This is grossly embarassing.
Whenever I think about this,
I conclude I need to put this
"doomfiles" scribbling aside.

   But isn't that another excuse?
   Is it really writing this stuff
   that's such a major distraction?

   The actual problem is more like a
   kind of depression, a feeling that
   it isn't enough to see what's
   needed and to do it, that good
   things regularly die and get
   abandoned by people who don't see
   why they're good.

   Persuading people to move in the
   direction I think they should go,
   convincing people to play the
   game that I think they should play--
   that's a skill that I don't have
   at all.
                                                          
           "Build it and they will come"                  
           seems like a rationalization          Really, I know all-too-well
           to let people like me convince        how often projects fail.
           themselves to keep moving.            It's probably better for me 
                                                 to choose projects that seem 
                                                 like they're worth doing 
                                                 even if they do "fail".  
                                                 
                                                 If a project can scale down 
                                                 to an audience of one, namely 
                                                 myself, then why not do it?


--------
[NEXT - SPRINTS]