I've been considering adding more inefficiency in my life. It's time I embraced it. Instead of trying to be a finely tuned, get-things-done-machine, I could be a bit more human and exist between my tasks.

Our careers shape our lives. Being a programmer for the last 10 years has shaped my life. Primarily, it has lured me into optimizing my personal life: Creative projects. Personal admin. Relationships. Content. Time. Time is one of those things that I try to optimize. Only in the last few years have I really begun to question the driving force behind that engine.

Recently, I cooked up a little project where I interviewed a few of my friends and put it together into a short video. Watching the footage back, I realized that they are all more to-the-point than me. I'm mostly okay with that, but this also isn't the first time that I've been confronted with my long-windedness. This is also not the first time that I've thought, hey, I'd like to be able to say what I'm thinking and it not take half an hour.

What does it take to be more brief? Why is it important to me? And why has it been hard before?

What's that crackling sound coming out of that little box?

We’re out on the road traveling a bit for some time off. We are visiting Japan, and we’ll be here for a few weeks. As usual with being on vacation, I have some time and space for some thoughts to unfold (when not getting lost, or sweating buckets in the humidity). You have been warned!

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