Projects, accomplishing things.

Just do it.

I would like to accomplish more. Like writing more blog posts. Which is why I'm writing this one.

I want to read more books.

I want to write more programs.

Projects that I can finish in a few days will probably be easiest. And on my own.

Current projects:
Read Guns, Germs, and Steal.
Learn to play How Can You Face Me on the banjo.
Write my Burning Man blog post.

What measly little things to accomplish! I hardly feel like I'm making progress on those. (Nevermind that I haven't accomplished any of the tasks on my TODO list in several weeks.) The point of these projects isn't so much to finish them (though obviously I would like to eventually), but to be making progress. And it's slow. Very slow.

But I want more!

Maybe I should collect and analyze some data just for fun? Like http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/10/futuristic-physicists/. Or make something fun and interactive, like http://web.mit.edu/joshuah/www/projects/caltrain/?

I'm competent, right? I can do things? Probably I just don't have enough grit.

Well, tonight I want to finish something. ...but finishing any of my current projects is unlikely. So I'll make a collage. And go!

(Hey, and I wrote a blog post :))