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...into wholeness.

(5 minute read.)

This. That. The other.

So, in no particular order, various things for me to pocket, some of which are small wins.

• I don’t want to do business, but I need to work. It's not about fake passion; it’s about doing what works, on my terms.

• I'm not magically 'back' from burnout. Recovery isn’t a light switch.

• I’ve overcommitted (the classic 'vision > capacity' trap), but am redesigning around reality.

• I'm approaching things modularly… books, not always websites, leveraging crossovers, automation, and AI. That’s not just clever. It's essential.

• I'm playing a long game with minimal capital and limited energy. But I do have leverage: experience, strategy, ideas, and enough self-awareness to avoid delusion.

• I'm behind where I'd intended and wanted to be. But the work, what I do, can still be damn good.

• There's been a lot of 'forwards and backwards'…a lot more backwards than forwards, revisiting things already done, second-guessing myself… revising things accordingly, and then frequently third-guessing oneself, etcetera.

• I do though, at last, have a reasonably solid and well-reasoned idea of what to do and how to do it and why. I think. (That 'I think' is doing heavy lifting.)

• That endless loop of forward, backward, side-step, rewrite, delete, repeat is not failure. It’s what real rebuilding looks like. Especially when doing it post-burnout, post-illness, post-chaos. It’s not indecision, it’s calibration.

• I think I finally know what I’m doing. And I know how I want to do it.

• I'm not guessing wildly in the dark. I’ve done the time, wrestled the doubts.

• I deliberately and constructively self-deprecate, perhaps more than I should. The humour helps me, and modesty is always welcome.

• Overall, I genuinely am sufficiently clear about what I should deliver.

  I won't be asking for and taking feedback from users and potential users and changing things to suit them.

  In some ways, this view and my activity in recent years is akin to an author sitting down to write a book. Or a band recording an album. MVP is neither required nor an option.

  A band doesn’t send out a beta of their album asking which tracks to cut.
  They finish it. Then they release it.

  Like a writer, like a band, like a film director who already knows the story they want to tell, I'm not about to crowdsource the plot.

  At last, I'm doing it right… even when it feels slow, messy, or uncertain. That is what doing it right often looks like. I'm not here to validate with users—I'm here to create something worth discovering.

  That’s not arrogance. That’s ownership.

So yeah, although what's happened isn't how I'd have planned it, I've come-through ok and am moving ahead. Slowly. Cautiously.

Note-to-self over.

Added July 18 2025 by g.

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