The Future of Writing Here

by max ~ December 26th, 2008. Filed under: Writing.

The last few days I’ve been working hard to compile and organize my thoughts on all the things I might want to write about. It is a lot of work to gather all the thoughts I’ve been working on the last few years. But I think it’s really important to capture them in concise written form, creating in effect a foundation I can build off of. Once I have the foundation, it gives me the freedom to pursue new ideas in full without the need to describe tangential but contingent ideas. Instead, I can just reference them. So I’ve got about a hundred ideas I’m working on now, some with many paragraphs and some just with titles.

The nice thing about at least titling everything I might want to write about is that it lets me build on the ideas incrementally. Anytime I stumble on an idea that is similar to a topic I’ve outlined it’s likely to provoke more substantial thought since I’ve already given my mind permission to actively seek out content on that topic. Most of the sensory input that reaches the mind is filtered out or forgotten, so it’s important to remind the mind to focus on salient topics. Writing an idea down is one of the best ways to signal importance to the mind.

Here’s a preview of some of the categories and posts I’m thinking about:

Categories: Athletics, Books, Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, Events, Force For the Future, Future, Gap Year, Learning, Lifehacks, Networking, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Role Models, Science, Success, Technology, Writing,

Posts: 2 Hours of Inspiration 2 Years of Toil, Books Vs. Articles, Treat Yourself Like A Company, Why Everyone Needs To Be More Entrepreneurial, Persistence and Execution, Goal Setting, Distributed Cognition, Solving World Problems the Obvious Way, Ideas are Cheap, TEDTalks, Vertical Vs. Horizontal Intellectual Interests, Forecasting My Life, Why Get Everything Out of Your Head, How I Found I Liked Being A Leader, Rock Bottom, Reading is Programming Your Mind, How To Be Idealistic and Pragmatic At The Same Time, Why Happiness Shouldn’t Be The Ultimate Goal In Life, Aligning Emotions with Rationality, How ANY Seemingly Unproductive Fun Activity Can Actually Be Productive.

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  • JGoebbels
    "But there are valuable insights interspersed throughout the fluff that can be used to create measurable improvements"

    Unfortunately your naivety gets the better of you. The only value of those books is for the people who write them, not those who read them. Only through introspection and experience will you find what you are looking for, your books are just for you to hide behind.
  • max
    This blog is a personal exploration. I realize the way I'm writing it comes off a little bit arrogant, so I did write up a bit of a disclaimer here, that basically explains how I'm approaching writing on this blog.
    If you are going to take the time to comment on my site I ask that you be constructive and try to advance the dialogue.

    @JGoebbels I'll be writing up a post on my opinion of the self-help industry. Overall, I think most of it is crap and if you read the stuff without a critical eye you'll end up worse off. But there are valuable insights interspersed throughout the fluff that can be used to create measurable improvements.
  • JGoebbels
    Your feeble attempts at propaganda amuse me, almost as much as the self-help books you put so much stock in.
  • Hack
    Wow! You sure do think you know a lot. There should be a disclaimer, because this is a erotic site. Every little sentence is your way of jerking off.
  • Reading is Programming Your Mind sounds interesting, though I think any dialogue with new ideas does so as well (i.e. conversations count as well).

    I'm also curious as to know why you think "Happiness Shouldn't be the Ultimate Goal in Life".
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