![]() Through all this, I realized I’m just not excited about Hack/Make any more. I’ve tried updating the tagline of the site to set the course for a new vision that excited me and I’ve spent countless hours brainstorming ways to rename the site so I wasn’t disgusted by the word “hack”-which I’ve come to loath-every time I sit down to write. To keep the site alive I’ve tried drafting posts about how the blog will evolve in nature as my interests have changed. Ditching the constraints of all these systems means I get to explore the intricacies of being truly human. I look forward to getting away from the safe feeling of methodologies and the comfort of routine: they served their purpose at the time, but often being comfortable for too long means you’re not growing. I now embrace getting out from in front of the computer. When I remember to stay in any given moment, I forget about being “productive”. I see the beauty and hardship, the complexity and the honesty of the human world in these people and places. I’ve spent the last couple of years making friends, traveling, and falling in love. By trying different productivity tools and systems, I’ve learned that less is more and that I enjoy life more when focusing on other things. Most no longer hold my interest since I’ve either figured out something that works for me or recognize the problem as unsolvable. Many of these topics-task lists, scripting, tools-were the problems I found myself interested in at the time. But I also think it’s because I’ve matured as a person and the way I think about the topics I wrote about here has evolved. Some of that is because I’ve matured as a writer and my old stuff reads as weak. When I look back through the archives, though I’m happy with the body of work as a whole, there isn’t a lot of individual pieces that I’m terribly proud of. I’m a much better of a person because I actively invested myself in that work.īut for more than a year, I’ve been struggling to stay passionate about Hack/Make. It’s been a place for me to explore ideas, code, and a systematic thought process in a time when I was setting the building blocks in my adult life. I made decisions and personal sacrifices so I could focus on writing for this site. I practiced the process of writing, editing, and publishing while discovering a voice online. I was writing, editing, and building a community of friends around the work I was doing here. When I wrote this, and for several years after, I was incredibly invested and active in Hack/Make. What’s not valuable gets cut from your attention budget. ![]() As a result of the explicit choice you make in how you spend your attention, you reduce the things around you to what’s most valuable. You can’t do or have everything, so when you choose to take active ownership, it becomes a commitment to it and decisions and compromises have to be made about what commands your limited attention. Being vested in something makes you care more about it. One of my first major pieces on this site, published in February of 2012, compares and contrasts the trend of minimalism with what I was calling “active ownership”:Īctive ownership, which differs from minimalism, is about investing your limited attention, money, space, and time to what you value so that those things will thrive. ![]()
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