Manifesto For Growth

Recently I was discussing the topic of diodes with a friend. One might wonder about such scintillating conversation, but I quite enjoy the dialogue because I never know how it will invigorate my thinking process.

This seemingly inconsequential discussion prompted me to pull out an educational arch-nemesis. My Digital Systems textbook. A tome of torture if ever there were one. Calculations like spells, cast upon paper, derivations of devilry meant to arrive at mathematical feats that some people’s brains should never aspire to, mine in particular.

Thankfully this post has little to do with digital systems and more about the fact that I discovered or perhaps rediscovered the manifesto spoken of above. I don’t recall putting it in the book, but the tenets found within the forty-three points rung a little more authentic for me today than in 2012, or whenever it was that I put it in the book for later use.

I have to wonder about the timing of finding this but was quite amused to read point 18. Considering I’m writing this post at around 3 a.m.

Stay up late. Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far; been up too long, worked too hard, and you’re separated from the rest of the world.

I ended up deciding that as part of my growth process I needed to actually hit the publish button on things. I have 20 drafts saved in my WordPress ‘Save Draft’ folder, and I have three children’s books, one historical fiction/clean romance, and three SF books that need to see the light of day. I also started a vlog. Me. A vlog.