Elasticity is the next level of time and work

I've started learning to play lead guitar and the breakthrough for me - this week, after decades of chord grips - is to recognize that I am bouncing the strings on and off the frets, and on and off the tips of my fingers I've always considered the point of fretting as altering the functional length of the string, and the action of the guitar (the distance your fingers have to move the string in order to contact the fret) is essentially waste

I woke up today from a dream of being a palimpsest, a poorly-erased and continuously overwritten parchment of sentiment and trauma

This is the truest explanation or analog for time and memory that I can come up with

https://twitter.com/kcorazo/status/1317460413026480128

All that exists is the forever now

And the forever now is forever etching and erasing and overlaying the consequences of the force of Creation upon us

Our awareness of the etching itself is in ratio to our awareness of the leavings of prior etching - and...

I haven't been this irritated in a long time. Come on brain, connect the dots! I can do something really cool here but what exactly

1 - people not used to WFH find in-person comms easier than online comms 2 - what's missing in online comms is the "kinetic chain" of body language, eye contact, timing, tone, negative spacing all of which are the ineffable 90% of the comms iceberg, with words being the effable 10%

Line by line I rewrite the requirements and implementation details in Excel, putting each word or phrase in its own cell. In the row above each word or phrase I put a Category name, and below each word I list an alternative from the category.

https://twitter.com/lanettecream/status/1044218237297156098

Then I read the sentence substituting each word in the list, and noting my expectation of the outcome. This way I map my coverage space and oracle space, and learn what elements make a difference.