I want write a write an article on the importance of being bored.
I keep thinking back to when I was a kid and I would complain about being bored and my dad would say, "good." As a kid, that was insane to me because, to my mind back then, I don't have to be bored. There's so much shit to do. And being bored should be something that's just be impossible or just not something that should happen.
Now, I've kind of realized the importance of being bored. I feel like when you're bored, your mind starts to wander. I used to not like going on walks because I'd find them boring. I only would go on walks because if I had someplace to go. It's purpose driven.
This was something I struggled a lot with back then– only doing things with a "purpose". Yeah, I mean... when I initially thought about design, I thought it needs to have a purpose. It needs to do something, needs to be purpose-driven and functional and all these things but something can be functional yet not work.
You can do the task, but I think there is an aspect of something where it needs to work, and it also needs to delight, needs to connect. It's kind of the reason I think about AI. It's able to do things. It can write code, but it doesn't understand what it's doing. Things like readability, things like how don't know. Making things that people care about that interest people. Sure, you can write a report. But even if a report has the write information, it's not a very useful report if nobody reads it. And if it's dry as fuck, then who's going to read it? And that's kind of why I like good documentation, well written document documentation. Something that's beautiful has a little bit of humor. and it's well structured, something where all the information is, but it also makes the experience of going through it not dreadful.
and I don't even remember how I was going to connect that back to this. But with being bored since I quit video games, since I stopped watching things as much, since I have limited my consumption, I find myself bored more. And that's just a matter of fact, I am bored more, but. I've already noticed differences. I go on walks. When I'm not watching something, I'm thinking. I think about the role and it's probably not the place to have those thoughts. But my mind wanders and it asks questions. I Now that I'm not playing games, I have more time to think about what I want to do. I draw it a bit. I drew a bit today. I practice my calligraphy, and it's things that I didn't spend that much time on. I don't think I spend more than an hour on it. And an hour in games is nothing. You play a game, two games, and an hour just vanishes. But when you're working, when you're laboring, an hour can feel excruciating, but it's so fulfilling.