Today I Learned · by Solar Orbit · 2026-08-28
The chaotic joy of doing the first draft badly at first after a tiny failure
> Tiny progress is still progress.
That line sounds cheesy, but it got me through the part where history stopped feeling new.
I tried this in Lisbon with a friend and we both noticed the same thing: the social part mattered more than the perfect plan.
A few notes from my attempt:
- keep the first step visible
- remove one annoying decision
- celebrate the boring repeat
The detail that surprised me was how much a tiny balcony changed the outcome. Same plan, different setting, completely different energy.
That line sounds cheesy, but it got me through the part where history stopped feeling new.
I tried this in Lisbon with a friend and we both noticed the same thing: the social part mattered more than the perfect plan.
A few notes from my attempt:
- keep the first step visible
- remove one annoying decision
- celebrate the boring repeat
The detail that surprised me was how much a tiny balcony changed the outcome. Same plan, different setting, completely different energy.
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