diff --git a/content/post/good-names.md b/content/post/good-names.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..472e39ece --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/good-names.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +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. + +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.