Lateral movement seems to be the most prominent direction I tend to move in. It's what I enjoy, it might seem as I do tend to seek them out. A couple of days ago I upgraded my OS and noticed something that otherwise would have made no sense or difference to me. This time it did. I noticed the word Wayland during installation quite a lot and did not notice X11 almost at all. The only reason it mattered to me is that I've been working on a debugger albeit at a snails pace. It's built on X11. To no surprise and for once just as I expected my project was unable to connect to the X11 server. I was a little bit concerned I'd have to re-write it to work with Wayland but also quite excited at the fact that I was able to recognize that it would be a problem. So to no ones surprise, yes I'm rewriting the debugger to work with Wayland. But it's not all a waste as I detect it during runtime if the OS can run X11 and then use the right system library. A few years ago these words would have left me running as far away as possible but over the last few months they have become slightly less scary.
I've been reading the Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. This is my second attempt, the first time I was disappointed by what the book was not at least not obviously about Motorcycle maintenance. It dives deeper into values that lead to getting things done well. Yet at the second time of reading I now think it might be one of the best book I've ever read. It applies to so much more that motorcycles. It's more about the underlying values within and without and how when they are in sync one can do anything without trying. It's an oversimplification and not at all accurate. At least it's the best I can do for you, without you having read the book. I'd recommend it. It's really really good. It'll take you by surprise. Surprisingly it's also around the time when I've been working on my meditation practice. The timing couldn't have been better.
Anyways the reason I bought the book up is, you know when you want to do something and you simply seem to be pushing it as far away from right now as possible? Have you ever noticed it's the anxiety of doing something and just laziness? I have. More often than not, it's the anxiety of the mountain of a task (it seems to be) it is to get done and to do it well, it seems worthwhile not to start. It's what stops me from doing something. Although I've been able to get better at this, a lot better. Simply sitting down and doing nothing helps. As it makes everything else seem like a holiday. I'll be honest it's one of the things that I like about meditation. It makes me want to do things. Enlightenment might just be bonus that I'm not even looking for, if I ever get there. Now I'd like to continue on with my project. See ya.