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What do you want to see or to exist?

I journal every day and I try build experimental software projects what I think is valuable or interesting. Person's idea of what is valuable or interesting or observations or conclusions is different.

I recognise that it takes a lot of work to create something. You can't just know 1 thing or be good at 10 tasks to produce something to high quality, you have to do 1000 tasks you've never done before.

For example, I love goodness, positivity, light and think on these things and reject what is not these things.

So I try do things that are valuable to me and share them with others.

Note: I want a zero effort platform similar to Repl.it that lets me be webscale with minimal devops. I am interested in ScrapScript and Val Town.

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> I journal every day and I try build experimental software projects what I think is valuable or interesting.

> For example, I love goodness, positivity, light and think on these things and reject what is not these things.

> So I try do things that are valuable to me and share them with others.

I really like your perspective! We're very similar in that regard.

> I recognise that it takes a lot of work to create something. You can't just know 1 thing or be good at 10 tasks to produce something to high quality, you have to do 1000 tasks you've never done before.

I recently discovered the idea of a minimum viable product and the whole "fail fast, fail better concept." It was a comment on HN that gave me the idea for The Metronome and I ended up launching the magazine in less than a month. I've never done something like it, but I wanted this thing to really exist, so I did what I new and put it out--and the response to it has been overwhelmingly positive. The second issue will go out tomorrow; I learned from my difficulties while making the first one and ended up needing less time to create the second one.

Perfectionism is a terrible problem, so doing things and getting better as you go is better than trying to be better before you actually do the thing, I believe.

I’m working on GridWhale, which is basically like Replit, but has a single, integrated language that handles everything (UI, storage, etc.)

Still in development, but feel free to try it out: https://Gridwhale.com

> I journal every day and I try build experimental software projects what I think is valuable or interesting.

I have 4 or so abandoned habit-tracker projects, and 7 "follow book" (essentially "following" a book series or author for release announcements/notifications) projects, all in different early states before I lost interest. I wish I could follow through with projects I’m not getting paid for ;)

Highly recommend checking out BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits regime. Utterly transformed my life.

Also had multiple failed journaling, reading, meditation, flossing, and exercising attempts, all of which have been fluctuating within acceptable bounds (e.g. some days I can only meditate 3 deep breaths) for the last 4 years or so.

> I wish I could follow through with projects I’m not getting paid for ;)

This was a problem for me as well, but this post by Oliver Burkeman helped me take action and launch The Metronome : https://www.oliverburkeman.com/justdo

We can't act on every single idea we have, but it's better to bring at least one into the world than have several world-changing ones gather dust in a notebook.

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