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On Monday 6/15, I'm hosting a workshop to kick off a reading group for classic essays: RSVP here.

Topic

presence

3 pieces

Chronofile

· 160 words

I set up a chronofile, inspired by Buckminster Fuller's system, where he logged every 15 minutes for like 70 years. That's intense! I'm going to run an experiment. In the past I've operated under the premise of "capture as little as possible," as in, capture just what's worth it, because then you'll have a mess of notes to go through. But agents change this; all the yak shaving (tedious, endless work) is handled. This could lead to hyperlogging, 100-400 logs per day. I've done this before as a kind of Hermetic T1 ritual (from Franz Bardon), and it's an intense way to see everything crossing your mind. This scale of writing might be the best way to "meta-program" your psyche. Essays do this in a way, but an essay let's you go very deep on a particular idea (and you might be deluding yourself, or you might be articulating a take in an ideology that you'll outgrow in 5 years).

Project Blindness

· 52 words

It's almost never worth neglecting your core routines to sprint on a project. Projects should happen within the calibrated confines of your routine; they shouldn’t eclipse everything. This doesn’t mean everything should be manicured and precise (obsession is blind to structure). It means that deadline and fire should never override your freedom.