What's the habit? Needing to make a habit and a discipline of actually outputting something at a regular cadence. The need to not feel seethingly frustrated that I start taking it out on my family. The need to feel that I'm not faking my way through my career and my professional life, and actually have the mettle to put what I dream of into action. Write a book. Make a game. Create. Create something lasting. So here are things I want to make, without being distracted by t

Once again into the breach. Let's see how long this last. I want to make a game. I should want to make more games, since I call myself a game designer. But I find my motivation in flights. Perhaps, I have ADHD, i strongly suspect that is true. Which is why I started writing this post with a completely different intention and content concept, but just randomly let the words flow in a stream of consciousness spillage and this is what turned out instead. But now I'm journaling

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