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+title: "on Naming your Projects"
+date: 2024-11-22T14:45:09+05:30
+categories: ["Polymathy"]
+tags: ["project","microessays"]
+draft: true
+---
+
+As an aspiring polymath, you'll soon quickly out of books and courses if you really wish to explore the intersection of multiple domains based on your current intellectual requirements.  
+
+That is a great problem to have and the solution is to transition into the mindset of chunking your learnings into projects rather than subjects.  
+
+I'll recommend maintaining a sense of pragmatism (incentivize application of what you're learning in the foreseeable future (with non-pedagogical intent)) and haste during your initial iterations. Perfection (The will to tend towards it, rather..) can follow once the prototype is principally sound.  
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+You may expect to start and abandon a whole bunch of projects over the course of your life.  
+
+The one definitive thing that will help you maintain a sense of responsibility and mitigate the impending abstract dumping ground is to name your projects well.  
+
+I personally like to use references spanning across science fiction, mathematics, mythology, astronomy or whatever's been my muse recently. The more cryptic the better.  
+
+Do not use a vanilla name, it gets boring very quickly.  
+
+Atleast during the incubation, choosing something that enlivens your intellect, has been a successful variable (not completely independent as, if I'm naming it, it must be confounding with my intent to follow through diligently) in dictating my will to work on it.  
+
+For instance, imagine creating an agentic AI that mentors humans in their journey towards learning to manipulate matter and energy in an immersive simulation, who would rather choose:  
+ - Morpheus, or ..  
+ - Agent Smith? 
+
+I know which one I'm going for.  
+
+### Post Script
+
+> A handy piece of advice: imagining being a supervillain helps cook up creative concoctions fairly rapidly.