I just finish a write up for The Lifecycle of Software Objects only to notice that it was already noded by Glowing Fish. Fish's node makes mine slightly redundant. Not so redundant that I don't think I made a contribution but enough that I'm a bit irritated. I keep one sentence drafts on topics I want to write about so that I have a reminder. Unfortunately, when I open those draft I don't see that it's not a node shell. This and English's schizophrenic compounding of words has seen me compose whole write-ups only to discover that somebody already did it better and more thoughtfully than I ever could. First world problems, I know but my writing tends to spiral into being twice as long as I intended because every topic requires an infinite number of digressions to fully explain and contextualize it. I can't fit an infinite number of digressions into a write-up. There is a character limit, I can only type so fast, I'll only live another fifty years, and the universe will eventually experience heat death or some such.
Reality is so constraining. Time, entropy, writers block, other people have all of the cool ideas, I can't even pretend that I'm fighting that hard because I can only ever be productive with extrinsic motivation and deadlines. I love writing and reading so much unless I have to do them.
IRON NODER XVII: ALL'S FERROUS IN LOVE AND NODING