Three notes from book after using my random note workflow. You've got lots of ideas, if you spend time revisiting them.
Reward and Flow
In Designing Your Life the author talks about a rewarding career being full of flow states. As many people have noted, much of modern work seems designed to break flow.
Slack updates, minding AI bots and flipping between them as they need attention. Multiple meetings at different points in the day...everything seems to contribute to atomizing your day in such a way that you never get uninterrupted time for flow.
I've found AI very useful in getting code shipped to customers. I've been able to ship projects at work that have been sitting for years with a detailed scope and then a day or two of touch-up after the first pass by AI.
But I don't get long coding sessions without interruption. I mind bots and review their work. I write little direct code now.
At this point my career doesn't feel like it lacks reward, but I wonder if it will at some point.
Weaponization of Words
We like to think that as a culture we have improved since the time of the conquistadors or the Nazis, yet at no time in history has this truth about the weaponization of words been more evident than in the twenty-first century, when our dehumanizing inclination has discovered a new global playground: the internet. - Reclaimed
While I'm not on board with much of the book, Andy got this point right.
Debt is future consumption
In Strong Towns they put forward the idea that debt is consumption of your future earnings with the hope that when things are better in the future you'll sacrifice a bit and replace this income you already consumed.
But it's like meetings. It's easy to say yes to something you don't have to do for months because you figure that you'll have more time at some nebulous point in the future. Then the day comes and you wish you hadn't committed to it.
