Aral Haykır

another bookmark. another save for later. another message to my own whatsapp. i'll read it later. i'll get back to it. oh that's interesting, let me save it for later to get back to it...

man fuck off. you never read them, you never get back to them. it just piles and piles. new ones coming by the second, you are fooled by ai generated headlines for guides to generational wealth. man fuck off. it's not saving that will save you, it's actually sitting your ass down and reading the shit, on the spot, seeing if it helps you with anything or not, and then applying it, and then running into problems, and then solving them, and then reaching a point where no article can help you now and you need to figure shit out yourself.. that's where you should be, but here you are, bookmarking some other shit for later.. what is "later" man, tell me? when, is it tonight? don't think so because you will be crashed from work, emptying your brain with call of duty.. is it the upcoming weekend? yeah forget about it, you're already booked for some brunch and an afterparty.. is it the big holidays at the end of the quarter? there will be millions of bookmarks by then, majority of them already updated to version 4.8 or something and invalid now..

this is no strategy. this is no way to educate yourself or build. you need to sit your ass down. you need to shut off the noise and actually get to it. stop bookmarking, start actually doing. you already have enough bookmarks to feed off of for the next year, don't you? start by crossing them out, until you go zero bookmark, you do not add new bookmarks.

i'm not sure, am i being too harsh? maybe, i don't know, but what's for sure is some shit has to change, this is no sound strategy to bookmark endlessly without getting back to them. you do this for everything, book to read, movies to watch, articles to read, guides to master.. when are you going to actually do all of them man? algorithm got you procrastinating like hell and you are not even aware of it, seeing that blue bookmark icon gives you a small rush of dopamine as if you have actually done some shit and you are craving it, instead of going after the real stuff.. shake and get real, snap back into it and realize you are being played. fuck social media. start building.

i'll give you something aral, this letter.. this act of writing to yourself. this is some hardcore builder move. we'll see if you will keep it up or not (and you must) but this.. this is real. away from the noise, blind to the algorithm, this is where the real you pours out, trying to assert himself. this is really cool. keep it up.

— Aral