Mathemagenic

There is something I don’t like about blogging: it makes all the loose ends visible.

I usually have more ideas than time to implement them. Blogging is perfect for it: you’ve got a minute, you post an idea, a conversation develops, you follow it and think of writing a story to pull all the bits together and to reflect, but then next busy week comes and there is no time anymore and new ideas are getting written down. For me this was usual - coming up with more ideas than time to implement them. But blogging is changing it. Once ideas are written down I have a visible trace of things I forgot to do and it pains to look back and to see them waiting for me to come back and to work them out.

Before I was happy to look back and to see how much have been done. Blogging makes it different: I look back and I see things that could have been done if I would have more time or more focus. This is something that takes me out of the comfort zone and pushes to do more…

A few weeks back Richard MacManus wrote starting his adventure of Writing a novel in 30 days:

btw, one reason why I’m writing this novel is to explore themes - such as two-way communication - that seem to demand a bigger canvas than a weblog

I keep thinking about it. I guess this is something my weblog has done for me: revealing a need to pull all the loose ends into a bigger canvas, to connect bits of ideas and to work them out. This bigger canvas requires time and focus, it needs more than a few minutes in between to write to my weblog. It calls for recognising that is really important and for giving it enough energy to grow. Setting priorities, making choices and time management.

One of the most difficult things in learning time management is to become frustrated with loosing time enough for taking actions. Time management course (in Russian) I started a week ago suggests crossing days in a special calendar to get this feeling. I don’t need it. I have my weblog showing me all the loose ends…

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/11/23.html#a849; comments are here.

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