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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @antic 14 Jun \ on: Make Something Heavy builders
A friend of mine is constantly harping about the value of producing finalized works--not just doing doodles and drafts, which is what I do a lot. I make a ton of projects (writing, code, art) that I never show anyone because it's just light work. I find personal value in that, but other people want big, heavy, final projects. The point my friend makes is that by going all the way to the end, which is something I still do but less frequently, teaches you more as you have to wrestle with the entire pipeline and not just the first phase. And I agree, but I still like to just explore and mess around and not be too heavy all the time.
It can be bummer to find yourself working on THE heavy thing and realize all the time you spent working on light stuff left you ill-prepared for the full pipeline (as you call it). But you only get a few heavy things to work on, so it's best to find the right, heavy things and the best way to do that ime is working on many light things.
A friend has some maturing kids and wants to make them wise and prepared the best they can. The only advice I can give, which I give because it's how I'd wish to be raised, is that they should dip their kids in as many experiences as they can. You probably don't want the experiences to be too light, but for breadth's sake they can't be too heavy either.
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I've been thinking about that a lot as my kid is about to become an adult. When you are young there's a lot of value in exploring as many things as possible--go wide and see what your core value and interest might be. But then you have to specialize in something to go really deep before jumping onto something else--or you can just end up floundering in life.
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