thinking about Getting Over It (Bennet Foddy Edition) and its treatise on trash
i post a lot of unrefined garbage in various places and spend a non-zero amount of time making unrefined garbage, posted or otherwise
and, like, why post trash when i could save up that effort for some Great Work, right?
well, I ain't making a Great Work right now and I might as well just practice with the puns and one-liners and junk ideas - if i don't let myself follow through on bad-to-mid ideas, i'll never find the mid ones i can refine into good ones
the change in goals helps too - "i'm not making this because it has to be great, i'm making this because of fleeting inspiration" - avoid that perfectionism that leads to avoidance
and then some of the stuff you thought was trash when you were making it ends up being something people treasure???