There is another fundamentals of design project due tomorrow, and I figured I’d post the results. I really didn’t like this project, the idea was to make an achromatic ‘design’ with two focal points, done in graphite. I really screwed up the bottom focal point, and it will be subject to last minute fixings tomorrow morning. Anyway, here it is:

Also: awesome song -

Was wandering around the internet today and I came across a contest that seemed pretty simple. It seemed easy enough so I figured I’d dive right in. The contest is that you think about and write your personal mission statement and the top two responses win a $25 Amazon gift card. After reading the post that the guy made I felt as if it would be an easy task to write up my own mission statement, and I think I really misjudged the depth of thought needed to point your entire life in either a new direction, or an old yet undefined direction.

After thinking about it for a while I came to a few conclusions that helped me shape my mission statement.

1. I’m a thinker and dreamer. I really tend to overthink a lot of what goes on in my every day life, which I think is pretty harmless and can only help me out. I also try as much as possible to be creative minded and to think outside the box - its not always the easiest thing to do but it is very motivating and inspiring to me.

2. I am barely motivated by money (ironic writing this post for a gift card?). I will not deny that money is necessary to live off of, and it is something that is needed. But I will argue that if I’m creating something and having fun with it and there happens to be a sum of money involved - to hell with it do it for the fun. But after doing things just for the money, you find out how quickly you become exhausted, and how much you begin to hate what you do.

With that said my personal mission statement is:

I would like to encourage creative thinking and push peers to be creative, to further inspire us all.

In following weeks/months I’m going to be dedicating mass amounts of my spare time to learning and experimenting with javascript. I’ve dabbled bit by bit in the past but for some reason I’ve kept myself from diving in head first, and I think that I’m finally ready to do such a thing. I’ve really been screwing around with snippets here and there for quite some time but I haven’t actually been giving time to actually LEARN what I’m doing.

I think actually declaring that you’re ready to actually learn, and setting time aside specifically do so helps the process of motivation and enjoyment. Which in turn will turn into an acceleration in learning and future projects.

So in coming weeks I’ll be posting little posts with cool little snippets/examples of things I’m screwing around with.

A while back I was looking into the gtd phenomenon and seeing what was what. I even wrote an article or two about it and got some linkage from a few blogs. Then recently in irc someone mentioned something about it to me, regarding my posts for a long time ago. It kind of hit me as a shock that people would be reading my old posts, but it also made me think about gtd.

Revisiting the gtd ideaology seems very alien. I think that it takes productivity too seriously. In a sense that the whole thing is made up for you to follow and it tells you that you basically NEED to use todo lists, you NEED to analyze information AFTER it is collected, and to me that just seems stupid.

Recently I’ve been in the mindset of things where you should be constantly conscious of your actions and decisions. Going with gtd kind of aids with this, but it tells you that you should first collect information, and later analyze it to make a final decision on the task at hand. I think that this is a huge mistake.

Not being able to analyze and make decisions intelligently on the spot, is a horrible thing. In my opinion you must be able to make good healthy decisions on the spot, you must be able to analyze them quickly and make good decisions on everything. Despite the trivial means of the task - you shouldn’t have to wait.

(written in february 2008)

This post has been long in the queue, and I would just like to say that Justin has absolutely no taste in music. Everything he listens to is the epitome of fail.

Kthxbai.