Joe Cecil

Someday/maybes don't belong in an Autofocus

Someday/maybe items don't fit well in an Autofocus system. The system's meant for things you have decided to do. Putting someday/maybes in the system clogs it such that I don't want to use it. Mark Forster's writeup about Autofocus says:

Humility ain't worth jack shit

I hate everything I have ever read that exalts humility as a virtue. If I could scorch out of existence every sentence that ever described humility as a virtue, I would do it in a heartbeat. The only aspect of what other people call humility that is worth anything is

I often want to feel like shit thinking it will help me eventually to get what I want

I have episodes now and then where I feel like shit and I in some sense want to feel like shit. Explanations rarely help. When I search for an explanation I will come up with ten reasonable explanations that nevertheless feel like bullshit. Eventually maybe I come up with one

The blessed and the wretched

In my everyday life I often observe people — myself and others — behaving as if blessed or as if wretched. (I borrow this language from Visakan Veerasamy; any confusions or different interpretations introduced are my own.) There's a conventional meaning for blessed vs. wretched, but that's not

Putting numbers on dating

Inspired by a certain blog, I like to put numbers on dating. Dating is uncertain and scary. Numbers are (to me) familiar and predictable. Numbers help me feel like I understand my dating life better and like I know what to adjust. That is, they help me feel like I

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