Uncompromisingly goodThat’s how I want my work to be

To think you’re above all layers of consciousness is a myth. And to neglect the amount of work required to split your mind into pieces and find what’s sitting in the wrong place, causing unnecessary discomfort is something we’re quite used to. Maybe it’s a habit.

There isn’t a standard measurement for what’s good. Only a feeling can ̶i̶n̶validate that.

Because the confirmation isn’t anything you can get at the supermarket. It’s much more effort than taking it off a shelf, placing it in your shopping basket, and hoping that the cashier wouldn’t notice the way you’re shaking before knowing it’s yours to use. Then you get home, carefully unpack it, and place it on your usual workstation. And you wait. The next thing you know about your progress is that you’re waiting to see it. The ̶c̶o̶n̶f̶i̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ is on the table. But it has nothing to approve. Time to realize you needed something in the first place.

Before that thing, there’s the search. The fun part before anything can exist.

Before the search, there’s the unknown. And beyond anything that can happen lies a decision that’s equally hunting as it is decisive. To open the eyes which can see anything but the familiar. It is switching from the regular consumption of decent foods and culture aiming to keep the mind busy and the stomach aching for real nutritional food. It is as time-consuming as it keeps hunger as the main driver of the lifestyle.

This exchange of energy must be balanced.

The input must be rewarded with a considerate output of ideas. That’s why the fine line between overconsumption and addiction(to online content) is often mistreated as an imperfection of our brains to adapt to overwhelmingly good stimuli. It lies as our foundation and breathes like a normal being. But once we decide to move away from it, it feels like a rumor.

This difficult-to-control behavior gives birth to a virtual persona that is there for a second until the screen is shut off. The only thing needed to break the limiting patterns is a curiosity for what’s inside the circuit board.

And what better way to think of breaking patterns than the ice-breaker vessel which is designed to break the ice, protect itself from the broken ice, and create a safe pathway for other boats to travel safely. The tough job of developing machinery capable of saving anyone and itself at the same time is nothing different from the work needed to engineer the vision and pursue the non-compromising way of creating something good.

Because the next big thing isn’t big, it’s just really good.

And in the process of developing something good, the body and mind have a very sensitive approach to the first blockades. Unless you’re ready to crush the layers of ice that reveal the mystery of your calling, there’s going to be a lot of questions about what progress means and feels like.

As we have stated in the beginning, what’s good will only be ̶i̶n̶validated in the form of a well-understood feeling. Hearing the cracks in the ice might be the sound of hope. When the purpose is set to be followed, it makes no sense to look down and not follow the GPS for real coordinates. Progress is often seamless when its driving forces are genuine, and coming from a place of internal desire.

And when errors occur, as they always do, it makes more sense that it wasn’t always the design or the blockades too challenging for you to break through, but that it constituted guidance to set the course right again and help bring upgrades to your engineering.

“Uncompromisingly good” means taking the greater risk of having to go back to remastering the concept over and over again, only to make sure the way you’re going isn’t compromising the potential you’re sitting on. In the midst of fears, doubts, and even loss, the price paid by the adventurer is often higher than the reward.

But that’s exactly why the journey is worth beginning, to provide the right context for the potential to be materialized into something no great mind can ever conceive through imagination.

In a year’s worth of storytelling challenges, the most obvious one was to make sure the delivery was on time. And with this newsletter, we’re marking the 24th chapter in a 12-month span.

The internal design had to constantly be upgraded to reach the efficiency needed to keep going, and while the flaws were visible, the damage was minimal, and the purpose was still on the map, waiting to be followed with every story.

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