The Curse of the Todo-list
Ever since elementary school, I've always tended to have more to do than I actually have time for. I'll give you an example of my current todo-list: (Off the top of my head, in no particular order.)
- Get my home studio/workstation sorted out
- Take care of a bunch of moving-related administrative stuff
- Solder some leads for my home studio
- Organize and backup our digital images
- Print a bunch of our digital images
- Organize and make available online a scan of an old, out-of-print book
- Start biking to work again (no time beacuse of the moving mess)
- Complete the new engine for this site
- Blog more
- Clean up my Inbox
I've gotten acustomed to never ever having enough time to do all the things I'd like to. I have also managed (so far) to make sure the genuinely important stuff gets done. What I've learned above all else is that being a jack of all trades is as much a blessing as a curse. I have the capacity to pursue pretty much anything I want, but I lack the focus and the time required to do any given thing really, really well.
Above all else, I've found that the only way I can get stuff done is by sacrificing other stuff. Currently priority one on my none essential todo-list is getting the new engine for this site up to a usable state. In order to make that possible I decided that it currently makes more sense to code than to blog, as blogging serves to increase the eventual migration cost of this site onto a new and improved engine.
The Plan
Here's the plan: I will try to code as much as possible, and report on that here from time to time. I will try my utmost not to post other stuff, as the time spent blogging is best used coding. We'll see how it goes, wish me luck!