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Retrospective 0

I neglected my little corner of the web for the last few days. I guess this is because the energy that I would dedicate to it goes into the advent of code challenge. This puts my arbitrary goal of 35 posts before January in jeopardy.

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Bummer, I should have foreseen that these activities would be at odd. Right now, I am at 11 posts. So let's reassess. I don't want to write slop just to produce posts. At the same time, the exercise of writing publicly was meant to:

• serve as a catalyst to push me to do productive things that I am proud enough to discuss online
• work on my communication skills generally

The "productive" things I am doing right now are, in order of importance:

• handling the last steps required for me to move from one country+job to another
• handling festivities preparations
• running, as I am training for a couple races
• doing the advent of code
• trying to teach the cat I am pet-sitting a new trick
• reading some good fiction

Ain't much happening here that is worth telling or sharing, I feel. I am slow with the advent of code and don't feel like publishing my code this year. The administrative move is super boring and quite stressful, the less I have to think about it, the better. I guess the list above does not make me the busiest person in the universe, which I appreciate a lot, given that I am not psychologically at 100% bearing capacity yet.

Let's then strike a balance. 35 posts until January is stressful and unrealistic now, if I do not want to write complete garbage. Let's aim for 3 posts a week for the rest of December. I will be well below the initial target, but now I know that 5 posts a week was probably not a good starting goal for me. It's ok, I was the one that chose that target and I did it arbitrarily at a time where I had less to do.

So what could be good both for me and maybe for an external reader to explore?

• why is reading fiction is something that I consider productive? I have things to tell about it and I know of people disregarding fiction as frivolous. Maybe the perspective I have to share is interesting.
• my struggles with the advent of code, because despite this year going much better than the previous attempts, I am not great at it. There's a couple elements as to why and about the emotional response that can be worth exploring for me. Not sure it's great to read though, but it would be cathartic at least.
• why I run? The values that I feel are attached to it. It's one of the least original hobbies ever. Murakami apparently disserted interestingly about it. I can try a very humble version of it.

That's three already. Relatively weak topics, but hey, I am not here to write things for the ages. I am here to become better at writing in public. Dear unlikely reader, I ask for both your patience and your forgiveness in advance, then. May you have a wonderful day.

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