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0716: make sense of your tags

One Million Words · Notes & Knowledge Systems · 2018 · 1.2k words

Visa mines his tag system across 1000 vomits, reviewing 45 tags to find patterns in his thinking and behavior. He identifies clusters around procrastination, writing, and behavior design, and plans to turn them into standalone blog posts for deeper self-understanding.

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0716 – make sense of your tags

visakanv
August 21, 2018

Yesterday’s prompt: “Tomorrow, I think it would be cool to have a word vomit that looks back on older vomits.”

Let’s do it, let’s take a look back.

A general good piece of advice is “begin with the end in mind”. When I started /1000/, I did not begin with the end in mind. I just wanted to get it done. Was that bad? I think… sometimes, it may be better to just start, if overthinking it means you’re not going to start at all. Like, if I had sat down to conceptualize everything, would I have even started? There’s no way of knowing for sure. All I can do is do better the next time. So hopefully the next time I start a project, I begin with the end in mind. I’m working on a set of micro-essays called “Naughty Boy”, and I’m going to plan that one backwards for sure. Even coming up with the name works as an example of that – I wanted to think about what it would take to sell the book to people, and I came up with the positioning first before writing the essays.

So. Now, we’re thinking about the end of the project when we’re 71.5% into it. It’s not ideal, but better late than never.

What do I want at the end of the project?

  • I want a better sense of who I am as a person. Who is Visakan Veerasamy, really? What is he about? What makes him tick? What are his motivations and interests?
  • I want to know what my weaknesses are.
  • I want to know what are my faulty methods of thinking.
  • I want to know what my bad habits are, and what works to fix them.
  • I want to know what my good ideas are, and what I should expand on, follow up on.
  • I want to know what are the patterns. What are the things that have been recurring? How do I identify them, group them, sort them? I think I have periodically issued directives to myself. What are all the groups of categories?
  • I want to extract anything that will be useful to me as a professional writer.

I think the above is a decent start, and we can now start looking at past articles for any patterns and groupings.

First – do we have any existing groupings? I have not used categories in my word vomits, but I have used tags. Here are the tags:

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Originally published at https://visakanv.com/1000/0716-tags/.