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I don’t know if I particularly set out for it to be. But a lot of my journey has been like that. Incidental things become the important things. The side-quests become the main quests. (2025jul29: revisiting this and thinking, what are the implications here for how I ought to approach my work?) I remember being very bad at focusing on anything at all when I was younger – or to be precise, at focusing on whatever I was told I ought to focus on. I seemed to struggle… y’know, this might be better as a substack essay. Maybe the title might be, learning to focus? Against Obedience? I remember watching a video of Steve Vai giving a motivational-ish speech to a bunch of people at a Guitar Center, and he said “The level of achievement that we have at anything is a reflection of how well we were able to focus on it.” I rewatched it a bunch of times, felt inspired by it. And for a few years I was torn up about how… how do you learn to focus, if you can’t focus? It seemed like a cruel paradox. But

This tweet has basically become The Central @visakanv Tweet. focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of - Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!) (@visakanv) November 7, 2020 I don’t know if I particularly set out for it to be. But a lot of my journey has been like that. Incidental things become the important things. The side-quests become the main quests. (2025jul29: revisiting this and thinking, what are the implications here for how I ought to approach my work?) I remember being very bad at focusing on anything at all when I was younger – or to be precise, at fo

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