| I personally came to the conclusion that when I save/curate/buy things I am “interested i “, I: - Have in mind a person I might become once I read and do the things I saved for later. - I think this thing I just saved or want to consume is profound and new. What it really is: - Nothing is changing who I am. - The book or website or blog post or Podcast episode is actually not that profound and mind bending but just a random person with 5k hours more experience in the field then I have, but still doesn’t know what’s going on. - Everything is more of the same. The TV show is slighlty different but still is nothing completely new, the blog post about technology A is more of the same then the others years ago. Mind bending, interesting stuff is created rarely and without much hype and found not really easily online. Nothing easily stored, bookmarked or downloaded is changing you, your environment or your life in a profound way. But when I scroll through HN, Twitter etc and save an interesting article, my brain goes: “That’s it, that’s the content which finally explains why I feel this way and opens new possibilities and changes my day-to-day life” |
This. But is it that you might become that person once you later read and do those things, or that you might later become a person who reads and does those things? I think for me it's mostly the latter. I tend to think "this is going to be great when I magically become the person who does that thing" and get discouraged by the doing that's actually needed in order to become that.