Commentary: Revisiting and Retrieving Useful Things to Repurpose!
Did an unusual and unexpected thing, this morning:
I logged into my old SteemPeak account. You might wonder why I would do such a thing, but there's a perfectly good reason: It suddenly occurred to me that there were dozens of outlines and partially written (and almost completed) articles/posts sitting in my "drafts" folder, over there.
What might lie buried here? Treasure?
It would be nice to retrieve them, for further consideration, or just to send to the round file. I've never been comfortable with "loose ends," and yet my life seems filled with them.
Pleasant surprise number one: SteemPeak is actually still up and running. There's no new development, I am sure, but the domain is still up and running... so that part was cool. The grapevine I am vaguely plugged into had suggested that it was all just going to shut down.
Interesting surprise: Yes, there were quite a few interesting and useful article "parts," but the primary thing that was slightly surreal was the fact that these ideas had all been developed and written out in "Pre-Covid" times.
Apple blossoms and blue skies
Because we move through life one day at a time, change comes to us mostly in the metaphorical form of drops of water into a bucket; we don't really notice tiny incremental changes, after a while.
Reading some of my own words and ideas from a couple of years back was a poignant reminder of just how much the world has changed in just a year.
My home businesses sure were doing a lot better, 18 months ago!
24 month ago, we had a brick-and-mortar, face-to-face retail store!
Now most of us sit at home and watch the world unfold from behind the relative safety of our window panes.
At the same time, as I read through some of my blockchain, crypto-social and community related posts, I realized how much we are still asking the same questions, and dealing with the same issues.
Some things never change, I guess.
I suppose the more interesting outcome of this little "excursion" was that I found myself more determined than ever to keep working at sorting and organizing my home office "closet of boxes," because I feel pretty sure there's something useful in there that I might be able to repurpose for current use.
Taking my own (old) words to heart, one of the things I learned quite early in my entrepreneurial life is that the "cost" of poor organization is usually needless duplication.
In plain English, you look for a "something," can't find it and think you might have lost it or given it away, so you get a new one, and then find the old one behind some stacks of papers, a couple of months later. Now you have two. Needless duplication.
Part of my excursion to SteemPeak was about not wasting time writing an article about something about which I'd already written an article.
I have less time available to waste than I used to have... or so it feels, perhaps because the "distance" between myself and "zero" grows ever shorter...
And, with that, it's time to go unpack another old "sorter" box from the closet! Who knows, there might be a good idea in there... or something I can try to sell on eBay!
Thanks for reading, and have a great "Hump Day!"
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Created at 20210303 13:10 PST
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Yes I do!
It's quite a task sorting them all out though...
I open Steem occasionally for not good reason. In the last few days I did it because Hive wouldn't open for me. I was surprised to see that the price of Steem was higher than Hive.
I've been working off and on to unscramble my entire house. I own too much "stuff" and then moved to a smaller house several years back and there are still some piles that need to be gone through (thrown out). I have come across a thing or two I totally forgot I had. 😄 Not big things or expensive things, but still.....Crazy !