Moving Past the Activation Energy

Posted on:October 1, 2023 at 12:50 PM

Today, I commit to writing and publishing it on the Internet at least once every week. I’ve attempted this before, but it could be for the wrong reasons since I was inconsistent.

After processing it deeply, here are the main reasons for committing to writing on the Internet:

1. Help me think, process, and articulate

My friends helped me notice that I’m no less than an LLM if I try to dump my thoughts right away. I take this feedback seriously and want to put the work on start polishing the ideas I’m sharing with people with a significant focus on accuracy, correctness, and nuance.

After using Apple Notes as my “idea scratchpad” for over a week, I’ve seen significant improvements in articulating the ideas I want to share with them. I have much to improve on in this domain.

Recently, I had the chance to study microeconomics, thanks to what we do in our startup. Writing as I study and apply this knowledge to the real world will help me better understand the topic.

Writing should also allow me to think and synthesize insights from nature and the folks before me and have it stress-tested. I want to have a process for myself that I’m forced into situations that I think. Writing is thinking.

It is challenging to turn the idea nuggets in my head into a narrative format. I store information in my head as a web rather than linearly. I overcontextualize during conversations because I’m probably ill-prepared for organized thinking. The writing and publishing process should help me accomplish this.

2. Help me meet new friends who appreciate the things I appreciate

One thing I noticed about myself since I was young is I deeply enjoy curious, exploratory conversations, anything about meta stuff. I value these exciting discussions and swore since I was 10 that I should constantly seek them.

This one is a bonus—I want to have feedback from other people and, in the process, be comfortable with such. I’ve been “micro”-writing and bouncing ideas with my friends via chat. So, I want to take this chance to scale this process in a 1:n manner.

Often, too, I find ideas that are worth sharing and discussing with other people. It could be from colleagues, working on complex problems, or just a shower thought. So, I’ll use writing and publishing to capture these ideas, ensure they’re preserved, and have a handy URL to share with someone as a conversation starter.

This tiny place of the Internet will be called Emergence. The ideas I’ll share here are merely a humble attempt to remix and provide an alternative POV of someone else’s lifework with my collective work and experiences.

I’ll share and talk about things that deeply interest me or things I’m working on, mainly the following: