See Dirt, Clean Dirt

I once knew a person who had a remarkably clean house, and at the time, I was going through a depression and had been struggling with the condition of mine. Her husband was a house builder, and they had a fairly large house. They had two small kids, and she had a busy life. I asked her, what was her approach? Did she do the housework on a schedule? Did she hire someone to clean? She told me no, she used a "see dirt, clean dirt" approach. I've adopted that approach ever since.

Let's translate this to work styles in general. Some people do well with long to-do lists and are very productive when they have everything planned out on a schedule. I am not one of those people, however. I have much more of what I've now come to call an "ad hoc" work style. I used to get frozen in place by daunting mountains of work tasks ahead of me. Nowadays, I combine "see task, do task" together with another thing I once also learned from a friend, which is "most things take five minutes," and I'm amazed at how much can get done.

"I am wondering, why are you here?"

"I am wondering, why are you here? Looking? Found someone, you have, I would say, hmmm?" ~Yoda


Welcome to Maganda Mind! It is an ad hoc collection of semi-original thoughts, little bits of the view from where I sit, in the digitalreal. What's the digitalreal? It's the gossamer gradient between virtual and real. In a color gradient, like from yellow to orange, where does one color become the next? There is no line. That gradient is my world. If you're reading this, the digitalreal is your world, too.


Most people have ideas about things. For me, ideas are things. They are things to be seen, found, and made. They are big things, they are little things. They are serious things, play things and serious play things. Some come in handy, some lie around. Sometimes they're shiny, sometimes they're not. Sometimes I'm borrowing them, other times making some of my own. Sometimes they're in my head, other times in my hands. But, whatever and wherever they are, you'll always find me tink, tink, tinkering. Let me know what you tink, tink, think!