Thursday, May 1, 2025

Not getting a new insight

 I was listening to Henrik just a while ago, when something he said popped up a whole bubble inside me head. It was like a flaw very serious flaw that was stopping me from doing things was developing silently all the while I had no idea that it existed and Henrik was mentioning something like he too had this. Quoting him (and it's just a bit - I recommend listening the whole answer):

But I remember like a big thing I think I can see... A big thing that's changed in my writing is that I used to be, when you're... When you're like a blogger, there's a strong incentive or like a strong expectation, a norm around like that you're going to have a big insight. And and what you see that happens a lot is that people come up with these new frameworks and this new way of thinking about it, which I don't think is... That's like an ego thing - you want to have like a clever new insight and and I felt I was kind of doing that too much at some point. Kind of had picked up that style of writing and and and it was hard and uncomfortable. How do you sort of push beyond trying to be insightful and like, letting go of that ego thing and like, writing being okay with just writing the obvious things or writing things that people have already said but but maybe just adding your nuance or reacting to it without having to like, be that cool guy who invented that new framework or whatever. So, so, so that was one of the things that I noticed.

I think that's something stopping me from producing good work, because I want to be that clever guy even though there's lots of obvious stuff to rethink about.

Any thoughts or questions?

Write to me aiktamseel@gmail.com and I will reply ^_^