Subject: How to Neshomeh
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Posted on: 2017-12-15 14:37:00 UTC

  • Double-check everything. The time you don't double-check is the time you will be utterly, laughably wrong. In fact, triple-check.

    - Fear failure, but fear success even more. Consequently, get nothing done.

    - Want to do all the things, suffer decision paralysis. Consequently, get nothing done.

    - Be baffled when people still think you're a level-headed, with-it, confident person.

    - If all else fails, edit the wiki.

    - Spend inordinate amounts of time on wiki articles and projects meant to elucidate the masses. Inevitably suffer frustration and disappointment when nobody notices. Keep doing it anyway.

    - Use a smiley that no one understands anymore. {= )

    - Crackers don't matter, and there is never a bad time for a Farscape reference. {= D

    - There is no problem that can't be solved with more and better words.

    - Everyone needs your advice whether they want it or not, no exceptions.

    - Re-read your own work. This is to a) actually remember what happened, and b) because you are secretly self-centered and enjoy it.

    - Pretend really hard not to be so self-centered. Maybe pull it off?

    - Write extremely slowly. Publish a mission maybe once a year or so.

    - If you get into a new thing, get really into it. Pursue it until you are in danger of burning out. Then drop it and move on to the next thing. Come back later.

    - Once you commit to something, never let it go ever. Even when it's long past time most people would have moved on and not felt bad about it. Torture yourself with every incomplete project and swear you'll finish it eventually, really.

    - Honestly believe that most people are good and pretty much just want to live their lives in peace, despite evidence to the contrary.

    - Embody the Unitarian Jihad name of Sister Boot Knife of Looking at Both Sides of the Question. Never outright disagree with anyone when you can temporize instead.

    - Waste ridiculous amounts of time trying to find that one word you know exists but can't quite remember. (Temporize. Which I'm still not sure is quite the word I wanted.)

    - Occasionally withdraw and don't talk to anyone for a week or so with no explanation. Apologize later.

    - When editing, obsess over typography. Hyphens and dashes are the best and nobody else appreciates them like you do.

    - Real life is the annoying but necessary distraction from the important stuff in your own head.

    ... Yeah, that's a good start. {= )

    ~Neshomeh

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