Project: KaijuBrain, continued

Dawn of the third week of experimenting with / implementing / rebirthing my use of (a personalized variant of) the GTD system. Overall impression: while it's nice to have my brain freed up and I do feel less stressed about everything, the flood of ideas is somewhat overwhelming. Hopefully this torrent will recede soon – perhaps it's just the dam being opened up, the static and the flotsam being expunged – as I'm generally distrustful of idea floods when there's so much actual work to be done.

Question: have I reached peak system now that I have an unassembled box of Legos from my birthday in a project file? Yes, probably – but at least it's off the dining room table.

One thing standing out: as I recognize the limits of my own capacity for mental storage and build this external brain at my desk – KaijuDesk, hence, KaijuBrain – I've become convinced that asking someone else to remind me to do something, to act as my external brain, is a form of cruelty. To all whom I've attempted to recruit (my wife, mostly) in this "remind me to x" fool's errand, my profound apologies.

Right, forgot this: it's also a handy system to implement delay tactics, to keep myself on track when the new shit starts popping up – handy, especially with the aforementioned onslaught of shiny new idea torrents to nowhere. (Version of Disney's three-room editing process?)

Also: still loving SquareSpace though one frustration clouds: for postings from the web, post URLS follow the title but from the app – which I hoped would make parenthetical postings easier – they instead generate a byzantine collection of letters and numbers. Fixed by manually entering title, but automatic would be lovely. Tried logging out and back in, no luck. Uninstall-reinstall next?

(Listening): AND THEIR REFINEMENT OF THE DECLINE, by Stars of the Lid.