You could take it that way if you like but it resonated with me. During the pandemic I was useless. I contributed nothing at work. I plodded along through life. One day I woke up and lay in bed till the sun went down. I didn’t even pee. Just lay there. The image of the light above my bed still remains with me.
And yeah, at one point, at the urging of a friend I went to Barry’s Bootcamp. Then I started going every other day. And then every day for two months. It wasn’t instantaneous. I was still worthless at work. But eventually I quit that job, accepted my losses (which is hard to do if you’ve always won), and moved on.
The lesson I learned from this article is different. This person needed these organizing skills in that moment. They needed that mental model in that moment. And they had it not because they developed it in the moment but because it was familiar.
Placed in an unpleasant situation, we all tend to the familiar. And for this person, the familiar turned out to be a useful tool.
Maybe one could turn it into an implied insult against one’s own behavior. Maybe one could treat it as arrogance to imply it is a fix for one’s own problems.
But I think the truth is that this article is intended in the spirit of something I, personally, greatly treasure: the honest human sharing of experiences in a way we can glean some truth about parts of the world we cannot observe. It’s a statement akin to “Here are the patches I’ve applied!”
And perhaps when you see those diffs you think “Fuck you! How dare you think this software is so shit that it needs those diffs” or “Fuck you! You think I haven’t thought of that?!” but maybe they don’t think that. Maybe they think it’s just that the software runs better on their machine with those diffs. And maybe they’re just sharing in that respect.
And yeah, at one point, at the urging of a friend I went to Barry’s Bootcamp. Then I started going every other day. And then every day for two months. It wasn’t instantaneous. I was still worthless at work. But eventually I quit that job, accepted my losses (which is hard to do if you’ve always won), and moved on.
The lesson I learned from this article is different. This person needed these organizing skills in that moment. They needed that mental model in that moment. And they had it not because they developed it in the moment but because it was familiar.
Placed in an unpleasant situation, we all tend to the familiar. And for this person, the familiar turned out to be a useful tool.
Maybe one could turn it into an implied insult against one’s own behavior. Maybe one could treat it as arrogance to imply it is a fix for one’s own problems.
But I think the truth is that this article is intended in the spirit of something I, personally, greatly treasure: the honest human sharing of experiences in a way we can glean some truth about parts of the world we cannot observe. It’s a statement akin to “Here are the patches I’ve applied!”
And perhaps when you see those diffs you think “Fuck you! How dare you think this software is so shit that it needs those diffs” or “Fuck you! You think I haven’t thought of that?!” but maybe they don’t think that. Maybe they think it’s just that the software runs better on their machine with those diffs. And maybe they’re just sharing in that respect.