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This is a thread for all those new projects you've been musing on over the hols.
There are two strands to this thread. Firstly the idea is that if you put something in writing, in public, there's often a bit more motivation to follow through with it. (Doesn't always work, of course, but it's worth a shot.)
The second strand (and I'd really like to see this, I think it could be very valuable) would be a serious post-mortem should one's Cunning Plan not come off for any reason. What sidetracks us--family, relationships, lifestyle issues, health, career, building a model of Babylon Five out of toothpicks? What in the final analysis turns out to be more important than magic, and can we use those drives to fuel our practice rather than acting in opposition to it?
So here's the deal: People with a project that they're kicking off soon and feel like sharing publicly post a rough outline in the thread, then update every so often to let everyone know how they're getting on. At the end of the year we come back and give a report as to how it went, if it went--and if it didn't went at all, why?
To put my own money where my mouth is, here's one of my big projects for the year:
Electronics engineering from an animistic perspective. I've decided to get back into practical electronics again, but this time I want to come at it from a new angle.
There are three main reasons for this: One, I used to really love electronics but my academic experiences have knocked that joy out of me. I want to find it again. Two, I've brought electronics into my magic before now, but I still tend to separate the ol' Art-and-Science in my life. If I bring the magic to the electronics, that'll no longer be possible. Three--most importantly--I want to know what'll happen and this is really the only way to find out.
To this end, I'll be relearning everything from the most basic concepts up, but from a similar perspective as my spirit-work. Treat each concept as a spirit in its own right, or maybe an aspect or personality facet of Electronics-wight. Sacrifices to the Holy Electron and the Mystical Square Root of -1. An altar to my electronic ancestors--Volta, Tesla, Farady et al.; symbols as runes, key equations as bindrunes. I'm going to crack open my textbooks and work through them as if they were grimoires.
I have other stuff going on of course, but I've either talked about it already or it's too mental to put on a public board.
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