In any piece of writing you must always know who you are writing for. This knowledge of the audience is what differentiates good writing from bad writing in many circumstances. Once you define your audience you can then form the basis of how you structure your thoughts and your arguments, it will enable you to make assumptions about the reader and their competence, to put yourself in their shoes and have empathy for them.

Lately, I have been trying to be reading three books at a time. One for Study One for Knowledge One for Pleasure Most mornings I’ve been waking up and trying to spend some time studying a Great Book, something which has stood the test of time, i.e. a Classic, typically philosophy. I typically read small sections, do a first read, take some notes on a second read and then do a final close read which I then type up notes for for later reference.

I’m a big fan of a guy called Beau Miles on YouTube. He’s just a pure character and one of his favourite things to do is to push himself to do more in every day. Basically, an every day adventurer. One of his most popular videos is a 17 minute visual feast where every hour he runs a mile around his block, 24 miles in total, essentially a marathon. It’s a great video and it got me thinking about doing something similar.

I think it’s good to write down what you’re hoping to achieve and a calendar year seems to be a nice thematic way to do so. This isn’t a set of New Years resolutions. This is just a collection of things that I would like to keep doing, start doing or stop doing entirely. It’s a preliminary list as I’ll likely update it in the near future as I understand more.

Summary 2021 has been a good year overall, I’m now over 30 and I’m beginning to find a lot more peace with the world. More acceptance for what things are as opposed to what I feel like they should be. I’m becoming more at peace with my place in the world which is good. I would say that this is my main achievement of 2021. I am now more comfortable with who I am, what I want and am more prepared to work at trying to achieve it.

One of the most fashionable catch phrases sweeping the globe is the pareto principle which, in the modern productivity oriented formulation, that you get 80% of the benefit from 20% of the work that you put in. There are other of this type of theme such as the first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, the last 10% of the work also takes 90% of the time which try to convey a similar point.