{"id":15583,"date":"2024-08-21T23:27:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=15583"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:01:38","slug":"do-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/do-less\/","title":{"rendered":"do less"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>2026mar8: why isn&#8217;t this idea more intuitive and adopted? I think maybe it&#8217;s because Doing Too Much satisfies some other goal, to feel self-satisfied, macho, etc<\/em>. <em>And why do we do THAT? It&#8217;s a kind of cargo-culting, psychological safety seeking?<\/em>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this one is a bit counterintuitive: if you&#8217;re starting a youtube channel or a blog or something, i believe you shouldn&#8217;t put toooo much effort into your first post, because it&#8217;ll rarely do as &#8220;well&#8221; as you might hope. this isn&#8217;t even really about you or your work&#8230; it&#8217;s just sort of the nature of new projects. i&#8217;ve seen a surprising number of cases where people get very excited about starting a new project with high production value and then it gets like 100 views \/ 3 comments, and then they kinda get disheartened and quiet quit.<br><br>there are exceptions to this; if you really know what you&#8217;re doing then feel free to ignore me and do whatever you think is right, obviously. but if you&#8217;re uncertain, it&#8217;s better to ship stuff that you didn&#8217;t have to suffer to make. ime this is also true of fitness for beginners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>to be updated. (funnily, me not writing more yet, is an example of me doing less)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>couple of days after writing the above post, i had a bolt of clarity about how to deal with my essays, which i&#8217;ve been struggling with for years. i basically keep trying to do too much. the difficult thing in this case was figuring out a configuration that I could be okay with, comfortable in, that felt right to present to my readers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i think i&#39;ve got it, re: my problem with my essays. i&#39;m trying to do too much. i already knew that. the solution is to do less. i also already knew that. the question is &quot;do less along what dimension?&quot; and the answer is &quot;7 mini-essays in a trenchcoat&quot;<\/p>&mdash; Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1826690132269039749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026mar8: why isn&#8217;t this idea more intuitive and adopted? 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