When in Doubt, Wing It
There was a time when it was a lot easier for me to come up with some way of doing something I found interesting (whether I knew what I was doing or not) and just doing it. In hindsight, the greatest ally of my youth seems to have been not being weighed down by knowledge and experience.
The great blessings of my curiosity, busy eyes and hands have always compelled me to investigate, create and fabricate artifacts of my experiential journey. Setting off in one direction to explore an idea, the path frequently begins branching out in other directions, many of which seem worth pursuing. Along the way, I may temporarily suspend the initial investigation to fathom the usefulness of the new branch’s offering, or I may abandon it entirely for the new branch’s potential for new and shiny.
Keeping notes of things to get back to used to appear to help — but the more I take in, the more my interests seem to branch out. Computer-aided organization of these ideas and pursuits was a reasonable and logical solution, but there are more and more new and shiny things down that rabbit-hole, too. Over time, my researching has become a bit of a morass of indecision and barren of artification, or artifacting or even much annotation. “Too Much Information” as the Police so aptly put it before I realized it had happened to me (and well before ‘TMI’ was to become co-meme-erated).
Unexpectedly, I’ve allowed the variety and voracity of my unbridled curiosity to short-circuit the documentation of the process (the art or artifacts, or at least some notes). In the absence of any clearer notion than this, I find myself in the familiar position of just jumping in anyway. Okay, to be honest, I’ve finally come to the conclusion that one more pointless, meandering, whatever-pops-in-your-head personal blog on the interwebs actually has neutral valence in general, but may well be a good move in self-advocacy for me, personally. Really.
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