Build a System, Not a Goal

This theory I heard once came back to me suddenly. I think whoever said it was right, and yet it is hard to explain.

Perhaps because a goal is too far away? The link between that kind of thinking and the action itself is not very strong; it can even work the other way and weaken the action. So the system matters. Follow the system and you can slowly reach the goal you wanted, because the system is a concrete arrangement — you can see what it achieves at the time.

Today I tried to build one whole system for keeping records. It will hold my data, and it will also keep the traces of the tools I use; and of course, using AI has become simpler too.

I have always had this idea of connecting everything together. I suppose it has more or less come true now?

Some of the news lately has not been good. I don’t want to discuss politics or any particular policy. But it is clear that what I care about is not what the people who make the rules care about, and the risks we each carry are separate ones. So I will vote with my actions. If not with my hands, then with my feet.