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:

An adventure is not a mission is not a positive vision of the future

Goal, trajectory, adventure, mission, and positive vision of the future are three close but importantly different ideas. It is so easy to confuse them that in writing about them I've found myself clumping them all together like cat litter. I want to try and sort out the boundaries

Venerable voracious curiosity

I sometimes wonder what it would be like if I were venerably, voraciously curious about everything, if I prosecuted that wide-ranging curiosity to the full extent of my ability for years. What if I cared to know deeply about traffic lights and economics and finance and philosophy and ethics and

Softening the ground for fitness

I have a vague sense that it would be good to get more fit. It would be good for my health. It would be good for my sleep. It would be good for my posture. It would probably be good for my energy levels, too. I could probably name a

Ingurgitate

I recently found my way to Sasha Chapin's blog for perhaps the third time and decided to do the only sensible thing: Sweep the archive for posts relevant to my immediate interests and swallow every one of them as quickly as possible. The word ingurgitate comes to mind.

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