• A bicycle for the mind

It happens again. I have a myriad of small tasks toward big goal X, and I need to make sens of them to prioritize intelligently.

A familiar though emerges: I want to be able to achieve X better, faster and stronger; surely there must be a dedicated tool Y that solves X and is simple, fast, and robust yet elegant.

Internet having excellent rabit-hole properties, it takes me a solid two-hours chunk of tool-hunting to realize that:

1. I could not find tool Y because it only exists in the realm of ideas
2. I found tool Ybis that could solve part of of the problem exists in reality, but is expensive/abandonware/both
3. I also found tool Z looks great but cannot solve X
4. I haven’t started working yet, problem is still to solve!

Then, I turned the computer off, took a sheet of paper, and started writing, immediately contributing toward the completion of big goal X.

Computers were supposed to be a bicycle for the mind, but as far as productivity is concerned, paper definitely wins so far.