dammit why does every idea I think about quickly turn into a book-length idea if I think about it for more than 2 hours 😡
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That's my conclusion too. Weirdly, that's a problem I solved for PhD (scheduler that was prioritizing short jobs creating long-job backlog)
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Basically, I've run out of blog-length ideas and only have book-length ones left in the backlog.
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So... What stops you? If it's typing speed, then there is 10-finger typing If it's time then there are yachts and Pacific ocean.
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a) life interruptions from $-making b) growing difficulty holding big ideas in RAM with age c) increasing rarity of heavy-lift energy spikes
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Hm, isn't writing exactly the solution to B) ? Unclutter the RAM by swapping the unused stuff to disk.
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Takes me about 45 minutes to load situation awareness of a 4000-7000 word into working memory than I can navigate the draft well
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Much harder to just load (say) a 4000 word chapter chunk into head and work on it. Plus motivation is weak since payoff is far away.
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But it gives you interruption resistance. Instead of spending hours getting back into state you can just reignite the cinders with a glance.
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*If* you have the map figured out and properly documented. I have like 5 book-length things as disorganized sprawls.
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Perhaps... I dont have to deal with interference between fuzz clouds of different projects, and fuzz tends to be anchored to some inner core
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