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I would like to propose that the most important part of the definition of a "project" is, it should be something that cannot be easily accomplished by a single individual in a single sitting which is to say, a project is something that requires *collaboration* across states https://t.co/CeOZRRBanD
this might sound like something kinda boring, technical or trivial, but to me it is actually quite profound. one way of framing Introspect is "the project management of the soul". I shall now wax lyrical and get indulgently poetic for a bit, ahem...
What is a project? (pro- forward, -ject, act, throw, to cast forward) you are the story, its characters, its narrator. you are the dance, the dancer, the choreographer. you are the cathedral, the architect, the bricks. the symphony, the composer, the conductor and the strings...
you are the city, the planner, and its people. you are the holy scripture in the temple and you are the graffiti on the walls. you are the benevolent deity and you are the homeless in the streets. you are the melody and the mistakes. you are the dipshit and the divine
-fin.) to do anything substantial requires collaboration – even if it's "only" with yourself. you have to show up repeatedly, and it's a slightly different you every time. you find a path through the fog because it's lit up by with beacons laid out by your past selves https://t.co/DQA0y3Ubq4
now think of all of these guys as temporally different versions of yourself. 2pm you, 3pm you, 4pm you. or january you, february you, maruary you. or 2020 you, 2021 you, 2022 you. how well are you passing "the ball", whatever that means, from one self to the next? https://t.co/RMejXUGU8A
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