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TASK3: WRITING

This task is worth 5 points.Write an essay on the theme “Unintended consequences” (At least 80 words).

Last year a side interest started to nudge me. It has since happily taken over much of my free time.

The side interest was that I drawn to learn more about unintended consequences, systems, and complexity. But I wanted a different way to start. These topics are often ignored but I started to read historical examples, look at systems models, and take a closer look at why things often don’t work out the way people (with the best of intentions) thought.

To help me learn I started to write essays on this topic.

Over the last year my writing has been featured in media like TechCrunch, Exponential View, The Browser, Marginal Revolution, Human Risk Blog, as well as making it to the top page of Hacker News multiple times. I didn’t seek links or external coverage, figuring that I needed to do more work first. Still, people reached out to me about my writing. That plus comments and encouragement from friends kept me going.

Last week I finished my 50th post. I thought I’d share what I learned while writing these essays, both related to content and commitment.

How I wrote. Though I wish I could say otherwise, I read material for, outlined, and wrote most of the posts in the most inconvenient and uncomfortable ways. Pre-dawn reading and note-taking because I was lying awake after one of our kids woke me up. Forming an outline mentally while walking to a meeting. Sitting in a cafe without moving from the spot to write a first draft. Remembering, while in the shower, an example I read years ago. I wrote most of my notes and outlines longhand. I use no note-taking software. I started and have lost multiple lists of topics.

A few years ago I gave away 1,000 books (long story), 99% of my collection, and most with marginalia that I now try to remember. On at least 25 occasions I borrowed a book I used to own from the library and flipped pages to find the example I remembered. On at least 25 other occasions I found other books, new to me, that provided material for the posts.

I saw ideas in Tweets, offhand comments, followed links, and lost direction repeatedly.

I downloaded many research papers. There are so many poorly written ones. If they are better content than the ones I read, I’ll never know. If a paper is poorly written I drop it pretty quickly. But thanks to those researching topics that overlap with those I have covered here.

The only qualifier was that my interest remained.