This time, a casual note on a few topics.
- As I wrote in the previous post, lately I've been sleeping enough, exercising, working, eating healthy meals — and I feel great.
You could call it the best physical condition of my life. No question, it's a healthy lifestyle.
Well, I've adjusted things toward the schedule I wanted and roughly gotten there, so it isn't surprising — but it's lucky all the same.
Work is going well, and I feel like I'm growing — but one thing I've noticed is that each day seems to pass faster.
Age is probably part of it, but I also think stress has piled up less (I'm resting properly, so I'm recovering too).
In other words, at this pace of days, life would be over before you know it — and that hits me again.
Put it like a maxim: "Life is too short to live healthily."
Often it's already "Is it that time already? Let's go home, eat, and sleep."
Of course that shortness is relative — relative to living while worrying and suffering.
Entrepreneurs who make money, reach a FIRE-like state, live stably, then start another company probably know this feeling too.
Still, I have zero desire to go back to a stressed state — if anything, I want to actively cut variables out.
Or rather: doing that can lead to a sense that you no longer feel growth, and then to restlessness.
Looking back, life has periods of "collapse," and those often enable big growth. Later they feel necessary.
That said, I dislike the idea that taking risk is good in itself, and I think it's wrong. Then the talk becomes pursuing "good" risk-taking — but "balanced" risk-taking never quite sits right with me.
Another thing I've noticed: when you live healthily, opportunities for ideas and insights decrease.
It's been a month since the last update. Until now, when I wanted to write a blog post, I could write right away — this time I've been wondering what to write.
Usually when I couldn't write, it was only because I was busy and tired. This time it isn't that.
A few days ago I went to a sauna with a junior colleague I'm close with. Out of nowhere he said, "You've kind of lost that hungry spark, huh (laugh)."
I've gotten very healthy — but maybe there was a distinctive edge, a glitter, that came with worrying and struggling.
And in the sauna, I feel like all kinds of thoughts used to come up; now, not so much.
But I don't need that glitter. My wife says my face has changed, that I look clearer — and I think that's better.
This thread is getting hard to follow. I'll stop here for now.
- Recently I bought a sofa for the new place. Looking around furniture shops was fun, and as I looked at things I thought I could probably make a low table myself.
I got to choose something I liked. Choosing what you like is harder than it sounds.
Once you understand the structure, you can probably make most things yourself.
I went independent without much skill, so to cut outsourcing costs I somehow brought marketing, design, systems, and sales up to a workable level — asking people and looking things up along the way.
From a quality-assurance angle too, I've wanted to be able to do things myself first, rather than keep managing someone forever.
There are two kinds of quality assurance, I think — a blend of being able to manage someone, and knowing it yourself.
I'm overwhelmingly the latter ratio, so I probably have the classic "can't leave things to others" disease — but at this small scale, that shouldn't be a problem at all.
Thanks to AI, information gaps are shrinking, and the wind is at the backs of generalists like me.
Of course you still need a human network so you can ask people with deep domain knowledge — so I have to raise my own ability enough to stay around capable people.
Think through the structure, identify the elements, build and assemble it yourself. Take time and use your own head, and most things should work out.
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