{"id":15903,"date":"2025-07-11T23:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T15:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=15903"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:43:56","slug":"work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/work\/","title":{"rendered":"work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is my typical work process? How can I perceive it accurately? How can I improve it? Why don&#8217;t I attend to this meta-process with more love and care?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(started 2025jul11, updated 2025jul30) when i sit down at my computer to \u2018do some work\u2019, there are a few options at hand, and because I was just playing some chess earlier, I find myself thinking of them as different kinds of \u2018openings\u2019. I could\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>try to write something \u2018new\u2019 from scratch. it might not necessarily be something i\u2019ve never written about before, but it would be fresh-in-the-moment, compared to (2)\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>try to edit and update a pre-existing piece that\u2019s already been written. here I could further subdivide this into&#8230;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>drafts: \u2018pieces that seem to be clearly-defined\u2019&nbsp;\u2013 in this case, the task is primarily editing. First, evaluate whether the draft &#8216;holds together&#8217; properly. Is there something to it? Is it fundamentally &#8216;good&#8217;, or is it mistaken? If it isn&#8217;t, then it may need to be discarded, or cannibalized for parts, or interrogated until it yields something actually promising.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>sketches: \u2018snippets and sketches with no clear structure\u2019. With the latter, most of the work is about consolidation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>just click around my notes and make tiny little updates. the latest thing i was doing the last couple of days in my iOS notes app was to try and improve the titles of every vague note. That felt very fruitful, because I could then see more clearly at a glance what was going on, which opens up new opportunities and possibilities for remixing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>go through my open tabs and close them\u2026 this doesn\u2019t quite feel like obvious work, it\u2019s more like meta-work, ie improving my workspace so i can work. I often put off this work because it seems unimportant, but if it&#8217;s a bottleneck that&#8217;s jamming up my work, then it technically becomes <em>the<\/em> most important work. Sadly, I still haven&#8217;t quite internalized this. At this point I always have to wonder, am I subjecting myself to unrealistically high standards? In this case, that would be expecting to notice a <a href=\"https:\/\/visakanv.com\/1000\/0848-0849-prolificacy-induced-logjam\/\">logjam<\/a> as soon as it happens, or maybe even before it happens. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s possible to get so prescient. Maybe the &#8216;operational cost&#8217; to achieve such a high standard is simply too high to be worth it. But I think&#8230; where I&#8217;m at right now, simply noticing when I&#8217;m jammed would go a long way. And I have been emotionally blocked from recognizing when I&#8217;m jammed\u2013 which jams me up further. It&#8217;s a funny (sad) twisted little knot. And I think the solution necessarily must involve an honest acknowledgement of the situation, an honest audits of the emotions involved. This takes courage!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>to be updated<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(2025jul30) I&#8217;m revisiting this post while &#8216;going through my blog&#8217;, cleaning up while clicking around \u2013 an example of #3 from the previous list. Currently this is the most recent post published on my blog. I find myself thinking it feels a little sparse, and wishing it were more substantial. I updated the above section with more elaboration, which feels good. But it still feels like it&#8217;s missing something. When I create a post titled something like \/blog\/work\/, I want it tohelp me with my work. What would help? Lately I&#8217;ve been feeling that a lot of it really is quite simply a matter of courage. The courage to notice when I&#8217;m feeling overwhelmed, or lost, or confused, and to sit with that feeling\u2013 not to wallow in it, but to get to know it better, to feel safe and heard&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is my typical work process? How can I perceive it accurately? How can I improve it? 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