Seeing patterns
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I've beeen having one of those gut
feelings when it comes to a project
idea, the kind of gut feeling that tells
me I'm onto something interesting if
only I can make time for it.

That's the difficulty of course with
projects that are big, hard, and feel
important, but have no deadlines or
external urgency: they tend to slip back
again and again and then you realize
entire years have gone by.

For reasons my fault and reasons outside
my control I feel like I have a bunch of
those weighing me down, more than I
could finish in a lifetime.

So, obviously, some of them just are
never going to get done. I want to pick
up and do the ones that are relavent
*now*.

So what's on my mind? String diagrams,
monoidal categories, and patterns in
Tidal and other live coding
environments.

I think there's a way of finally locking
down the algebra of these things, or at
least exploring it in a more rigorous
and transportable way.

I need to just actually make time and
not let this be another fucking insight
I have that other people catch up to
five years from now.