Forth Eorlingas

I once had a customer call me an “idea hamster” because of how easily I went down rabbit trails of ideation when discussing the project we were working on. We had a good laugh about that turn of phrase, and I do see the value in idea generation to some degree, but ideas are easy. I’m not impressed by someone who can come up with many of them (least of all myself). What impresses me is people and organizations that can execute on their ideas.

There might be “second half of life” factors at play as well in my desire to get better at finishing. In the last week I’ve added 10 draft ideas to my blog backlog, and this will be only the first one I’ve published. At the rate I’m going I’ll never get done, which perhaps is a good thing, but still, I want to get a few of these ideas out in the wild, and that means I need to power through the writing part.