I've been had...

• By an innumerable list of things that eat away at my focus, and I today need to (re-)learn to focus on things that matter.
• By the attention economy, forcing me to filter and sift through the information I'm looking for.
• By the dark patterns in writing like native advertising, serving me a slurry of pointless factoids fed to me by content farms instead of the things that will have a positive impact on what I do.
• By the toxic positivity, giving a participation medal to anyone and allowing me to relish in mediocrity.
• By the toxic netgativity, celebrating only the biggest KPI, gamed by the winners instead of rewarding small progress.
• By the actions of others, the ones that will make me satisfied with what I did because it's not the idealized version I've been told about.

While writing this, I already forgot 2 ideas... and there are so many more I forgot.

Start trying

The whole point of writing is to be able to forget, free the mind from memory overload.

So anyway, I started typing.