Priority amnesia

This blog is intentionally distant from most of my readers, which frees me up to try out many ideas. However, being more immersed with my readers is a useful idea to me, one that I was reminded of in a recent conversation with a friend. After my brain started chattering with new ideas, I paused. I had a hunch this had come up before. Then I remembered I had already been posting at Hacker News and LinkedIn. These were intuitively comfortable environments for me. I could publish everything here, and choose only the best ideas to post there. There was no good reason I’d stopped, other than other priorities coming up. For me, since it was already working, I decided to do more of it, and find more ways to do it better, before trying a completely brand new platform. When I talk to my friends or coworkers, and our conversation drifts to something that was showing results, I ask them why they stopped. More often than not, the answer is, “I got busy.” As urgent priorities inevitably come up,…