Consume less, create more
Yes, producing is hard.<p>No, quantity is <i>not</i> the same as quality.  Some people write 5,000 books in a lifetime.  Wittgenstein wrote two.  The second refuted most of the first.<p>Much modern consumer technology is aggressively anti-generative.  I&#x27;m wrestling with a crap tablet and OS and a browser that&#x27;s crashed a half-dozen times today, taking down the 50 or so items I&#x27;d had lined up to read (I&#x27;ve yet to embrace the &quot;consome less&quot; element).<p>I spend a lot of time fighting to create and acquire the time and space and materials and tools I require <i>to</i> create, often battling with uncomprehending others in this.  &quot;Why do you need books &#x2F; computer &#x2F; light &#x2F; space &#x2F; food &#x2F; housing &#x2F; clothing.&quot;   I only wish I were kidding.<p>Facile works can be created with relatively low barriers surmounted.  More substantive ... takes a bit more.  I&#x27;m not remotely pretending to be another Ludwig, but reading him and others like him, I&#x27;ve formed a pretty strong view of the quality-quantity curve and how that works out.  If even just a 1,600 word blog essay takes a month to compose, a more ambitious project might just require a bit beyond that.<p>And yes, getting into the creative habit, and seeing what works and doesn&#x27;t (cold starts on blank pages have their place, but so doe boxes and stacks of index cards and books), and not being afraid to start over or take time.