# 03

I'm surprised how big of a mental hit I took this March.

My approach to projects has often been backwards. I want to make scaffolding. Like this site. I like the idea of a wiki. But the point is not it being a wiki or a blog or something. The point is writing. I've heard a similar thing said about Gwern. How you can make a website as good as his (you probably can't, but let's assume). But it wouldn't matter. He's good not because of his amazing website, but because of his amazing writing.

Same here. I can make categories and tags. Here are my posts, here are my thoughts, my reviews, my JP notes, my journal. But they will be empty.

Actually, that's one of the reasons I like this journal format. It reduces the friction of writing. I can just write. Get the words out. Put myself out there. I can organize later, it's all premature optimization anyway.

I've been slightly neglectful in my Japanese studies because of that mental hit (a project where I joined, quickly realized it's not for me, stressed myself out and gradually quit).

I think the gratefulness journal wasn't going well. It became too same-y. Maybe I can read up on such journals to learn more?

But I also had a project. I'm making it under my real name, so I don't really want to share it here. On the other hand, who cares? Honestly, who cares. It's a telegram bot with a JP-RU dictionary. For now the UX isn't great, but it works. I sometimes even think "I should ask the bot" when I need to look up something.