Midsummer Challenge
A Post a Day for at Least 30 days Straight
Stimulant Vacation Over, Health and Energy realigned
Needed to take a break from posting for a bit. And from stimulants and with that, any semblance of legible productivity. In these slow weeks, I fixed my health issues, if not for good, then sufficiently, that I can rid myself of the remainder without being slowed down overly much nor getting derailed or badly distracted again, assuming I don't make terrible choices and a modicum of luck.1
The Challenge
With the previous mathematical posts, I have finally approached the standard of concise and clear communication, that I was aiming for all along. But those often took the better part of a day or longer to write, which was not sustainable.
This challenge will give me practice, to express myself fruitfully, but with a time limit of an hour or two daily for writing and editing. The posts will be techniques, ideas, vignettes, observations, principles, structures, explanations, system descriptions, neuranatomy guides, practice drills, math-related, notational refactoring etc.
Individual posts will not be necessarily contextualized into the bigger picture of my current system, as that takes too long. After I've written far more, I will weave them together into a larger structure.
Warning: Few Images, little Editing, hopefully not too Dry
I will have to forego most illustration during this challenge. The Ambitious Cognition Project in all its aspect is of course organized by wonderful, vibrant colors... but sadly you will see none of that for a bit.
I don't need external illustration as much for myself anymore, as my mental visualization skills have gotten a lot better in 2025.
Although I've gotten far better at illustration with the math-posts, it's still a ton of fiddly often frustrating work2 that ends up eating too many hours of the day.
I will probably only bother with the most generic and sloppy AI-generated post images, to pay lip service to the idea of illustration :)
After the challenge is over, I will get back to properly illustrating my posts.
I like long sentences, sue me :)
phone-image upload delays, file sizes, email-size limits.... argghhhhh!
For January this year i gave myself a challenge to write one post every 2 days (so 15 over the month). I think it's an interesting thing to and it does pressure you to write more stuff, which is good as the the way to improve your writing is to write more.
This is part of the book foreword btw. You may not know it yet