After months of delay, I am pleased to announce the implementation of email newsletters at Wasya.Co and Piousbox.com

I've been in awe at some news I've been reading. Because they have been very powerfully written. It is like reading a good novel - which I no longer do, between reading news, documentation, and writing (which is to say, not reading), I no longer read what I know is fiction. Too bad though - some of the books in my past have been excellent. Take William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, my favorite american sci-fi authors so far.

A customer watched their referral numbers climb steadily for months—until it suddenly slowed down.

By the time we spoke, the frustration was clear. The team had invested real effort into building momentum, so the hiccup felt personal. Their first order of business was to regain control by making a few adjustments to the program.

As we walked through what had changed, the issue came into sharp focus. The program itself hadn’t failed, no. But the attitude around it had shifted.

Lost my laptop, possibly due to a virus, and now I have to rebuild it. Yeah, losing a laptop is hard. On the one hand, I have to be ready for such unfortunate events. And I actually am ready - I have a recent backup. I have non-recent backups, as well. Most important things are also duplicated in the cloud. Some heavy files like videos aren't backed up, but I'm actually not losing much there. And I managed to back up text files and important small files of the most recent days, via a tether. So I'm good, overall. 

In order to improve my writing skills, I should write on a regular basis. The amount of writing is measured in either the number of words written, or the hours spent writing. Of course, there is an inherent conflict of interest, an inherent corruption when measuring work in such a way. See The Inherent Corruption of the Employee.

How will I promote and market my material? And for what purpose? What am I selling? What is the path (karate-do) that I'm pursuing, what is in my DNA? These and other questions are answered succinctly in The Core.

Backup. 

...then, the current idea, from completely lacking motivation to work, is as follows. Instead of reading news, etc, and being generally unuseful, I will spend time *writing* news, or scrum updates, or 2d sketches, or whatever else that can be generated, rather than consumed.