Fourteen: a pen in hand is worth two in the holder unless that holder is insatiable and I need to stop feeding it

Portrait of a Void Surfer Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Text & Video Read Time: 12 min Topics: Productivity, Friction A number of things have... shifted in my life recently. The short upshot is that I have come out of a kind of fog — one of those fogs that, only once you're free of it, coalesces into the Thing that haunted your mind. What was diffuse mist becomes a solid. A familiar. And the exorcism of it, or whatever we're calling recovery these days, results in an increase in various Positive Ideals. Focus. Energy. Good vibes or some such. And in what is surely unbecoming of an eldritch sort like myself, I have been reconsidering my approach to my work life. The realization, bolstered by the aforementioned shifting, was that my project backlog had gotten 100 items deep. That is 100 projects, not tasks. And I know some of them had progress started long enough ago that I'd taken a step down a specific path... but that path is now so covered over it is as good as lost. Vines and…