It's more difficult than I expected to get this far.
Takes about 2 hours a day to put one of these posts together, mostly at night. When I realized how long it was taking, I started using time earlier in the day to get started. Figured it would get me finished earlier. Now it takes...about 2 hours a day, mostly at night. At least now the whole two hours isn't spent trying to find something to post about.
Two hours is a chunk of a day's time - almost 10%, in fact. (Which further means I've spent 10% of 2014 posting here. Woah.) Last year I had been working my way through a number of television shows I missed when they were broadcast. No time for that, now. It has been a good reminder of how little time any of us really have - and how it takes real concentration to actually make use of it.
There's a fair bit here that is inspired by, if not about, popular culture. It's more difficult to place actual events in the Crisis since we don't see where they end up. Culture has a shorter cycle, and we can see where it is ending up in the nearer term. And the model is really a sociological one, and culture - what people watch, read, hear, do - naturally reveals something about what groups of people think/feel/believe.
I'm becoming more insistent on finding comparable examples in previous Crises. It's too easy to say "Doesn't this look like the Crisis?" Finding an earlier counterpart at least gets closer to being proof. Even if only one can be found in an hour or two.
Next how-long-have-I done checkpoint will probably be the six-month point - end of June, about when summer starts. Which will be here soon enough.
I'm becoming more insistent on finding comparable examples in previous Crises. It's too easy to say "Doesn't this look like the Crisis?" Finding an earlier counterpart at least gets closer to being proof. Even if only one can be found in an hour or two.
Which is why a lot of posts end up with "may" or "probably" or "it suggests" - it's difficult to be certain about an unproven model when there are only a couple of hours set aside to compose, research, contrast, link, and post. I tell myself that I'm going to go back and investigate some of them more. But as long as I'm doing a post a day, I don't expect to have time for that. I'm still glad to have the raw material around.
Sometimes all you need to convince yourself to write regularly is some trick to make yourself write regularly. I'm sure that would work for other goals, too.
Sometimes all you need to convince yourself to write regularly is some trick to make yourself write regularly. I'm sure that would work for other goals, too.
Next how-long-have-I done checkpoint will probably be the six-month point - end of June, about when summer starts. Which will be here soon enough.
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