So many things

by Will Entwistle

Hello… it’s Will.¹

So here we go, sitting down to write the first proper note.

Ok, so being totally honest, I have about a million things I want to write about on here, but I guess I’m suffering from some good old ‘decision paralysis’

I mean, I even took farrr too long to decide which GIF to use there 👆 but we’ve been watching Younger (Netflix) lately, so I chose that one.

Here are some topics I might write about:

• Getting into park running

• Trying Padel

• Getting into Bouldering

• Going to a personal trainer

• Having a dog

• Love of cooking

• Sourdough obsession

• Not eating meat, being veggie

• Going caffeine-free

• Going Alcohol free for a bit

• Our local refill shop

• Notes on Pizza

• Middle Eastern food is the best

• Gaming in your mid-30s

• Films we are watching

• The best TV shows

• Recliner seats at the cinema

• Feelings on canvas bags - totes

• The satisfaction of finally getting a headboard for your bed

• Using old computer parts and becoming a PC nerd

• Trying every project management tool that’s ever existed

• Are drones worth it?

• Imposter syndrome

• Working hours are weird

• Reframing January

• Do we think in months?

• Notes on motivation

• Notes on ‘success’

• Notes on goal setting

• Notes on running a business

• Removing ego from work

• Setting up good processes and systems

• Realising that my brain goes a million miles an hour in the morning

• Notes on magnesium and sleeping

• Notes on CBD

• What it’s like working with your partner

• Creative ideas and storytelling

• Different types of creative outlets

• Constant new tech needs (wants)

• Work-life balance

• Learnings from passion projects

Hilariously, whilst going through my notes for this (yes, I’ve started writing notes about which notes to write), one of my ideas was ‘notes on doing too many things and then not doing anything at all’, which is essentially what this is.

I want to say that ‘It’s better to get something done than leave it open-ended in the hope that one day you’ll get round to perfecting it, but inevitably never finishing it’. But it would be extremely hypocritical of me to say that.

We often refer to it as ‘Done is better than perfect’. To be honest, even that saying is a placeholder until a better one comes along. The saying literally describes itself (is there a word for that?)...

Sidenote: I asked Chat GPT, and now I feel like I could write a whole post about the idea of ‘Done is better than perfect’ (maybe it should go on the list of topics). Turns out you can describe it as ‘A performatively imperfect aphorism’. Who knew?! (apart from Chat GPT)...probably word nerds.

Anyway, I feel like I’m going to have to get used to embracing ‘done is better than perfect’ if we want to keep up semi-regular posting on here.

Let’s see how we get on.

Let me know if any of the topics sound interesting (I might start writing about some of them anyway) but I would love to know what you think?

Back soon

Will

1. (this is a reference to my voicemail, iykyk)