2017.08.22: Starting a journal

Dear Journal,

It is my intention to start a journal filled with lessons learned, tools used, tips & tricks, some clever thoughts, or any otherwise subjectively useful information. Journals have an informal tone and allow me to express thoughts in an unfiltered manner that may or may not be useful to others. In the end what does it matter? Whether my words are public or stuck in my head makes no considerable difference... Unless of course it does. Perhaps the words made public through this journal may teach, inspire, or help market project del in some positive way. I suppose these are my real intentions for this journal. To make the minds behind project del transparent for everyone to see. To illustrate our actions on a day-to-day basis and keep myself on track. The words through these virtual pages will serve to chronicle my first foray in designing a consumer product from start to finish. I hope the readers find some gems throughout. Maybe we can make an annotation tool similar to genius.com where anyone with an account can markup the journal and highlight snippets of quality content.

Anyway, back to the point. The first time I wrote in a journal consistently was when I took a theater class in college. We had to write our daily thoughts in a 250-500 word (written) post. (Apparently writing makes more connections in our brains so it's better than typing. That won't be the case here.) However, the journal did help me flesh out ideas for performances we had to make or practice and was a different medium than reciting scripts. Ultimately, I think journals are powerful pieces of equipment that anyone on a large project should invest time into. They serve to naturally sort ideas and compile each day into a tiny readable chunk. That said, I'll wrap up this post so I can get to the real journal entry for today and go to sleep.

Sincerely,

Alex