challenge post thoughts
I've been thinking a lot about progress tracking recently. When the blaugust posts started cropping up again, I thought about a different challenge - you pick a project at the start of the month and commit to trying to complete it, and posting at a regular interval (weekly? every day?) with a progress update, and a recap post on the last day day of the month.
I considered this could be as diverse as "I will write a small poem each day" to "by the end of the month I will have implemented my site redesign" to "by the end of the month I will have had that conversation I've been putting off".
Re the last one, I read a substack post which got me thinking about approaching problems in your personal life as you would other problems that you're actually good at solving - Maybe you're not actually trying. It's written in that "substack style" (linking a personal anecdote or trauma to a life hack and summing up neatly at the end) which kind of puts me off, but it's an interesting idea.
I've also been working on a logging system to track how much time and how many activities I actually do related to my hobbies. Here's the design I made in a code pen, which I've coded up locally using an express.js server and supabase database (and haven't checked into github yet, oops). I worry this is just a distraction - curating ever more complicated ways of tracking life instead of living it.
I've also (and this feels better - less thinking and curating, more doing) started arranging craft nights with my friends. This is a lot of fun and it feels rarer and more precious as you get older, to be able to get a group of friends together in person just to hang out together, so it brings me a lot of joy.
The table from our last craft night