Низомийномидаги Тошкентдавлат педагогика университети

Exhaustion, baby. After seven or eight months I got to a point of exhaustion and had to move to writing once every two weeks. We had a third baby and I was sleeping even less than before. At best I would get a night of interrupted sleep that left me tired even when I was just doing my regular work. I kept the weekly emails but every other one became just a brief update. (I’m still in this phase.)

Compounding. Around the time I wrote my 30th post I saw the effects of compounding. That is, someone new would discover one of the essays and then tell me that they read 10. Someone I had never met would tweet one of my essays and then I’d see new attention from their part of the world. You can only get to this compounding stage by first putting in the work.

Socializing. Casual conversations that overlapped my writing turned out surprisingly for the other parties. Topics that I covered, like UBI, Autonomous Vehicles, mosquito eradication, scale effects, university funding, disinformation and more just changed for me. I created awkward silence socially by having different opinions than the norm. I have generally been ok with that. I also noticed that I only had well-formed opinions because I first wrote them down. The writing process forced me to think.

Why did I even get interested in this in the first place? The best interpretation of what happened to me was that at some point I had spent enough years reading, working, and living to see that the default case is that things don’t work out as planned. Yet the default case is also that people assume things will work out.

Overall, because of this project I notice myself thinking of systems effects when I hear about a new policy, fast company growth, or activity that spreads. This project changed the way I think.