there is no *true north*

John So's blog – research notes and thoughts

there is no *true north* joso journal: there is no *true north* 02 Jun 2026 keywords: motivation, goal setting back to blog A good friend of mine gave me the advice that the hardest part of writing a blog is not the first post, but the second. Unfortunately, he was right… so after more than a year of sitting on my thoughts, I once again try. Not that this is the first attempt; I have been sitting on this for an unreasonably long time (knowers know), which contrasts with the motivations I described in my last post. I think my first “one hour” drafts for this were a bit too raw, to the point of

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