Completed Tasks

• Started the ItRaN page.
• Finished the Epistemology page.
• Started the Logic page.

Lessons Learned

I started this, almost a month long period, by deciding to focus on the YouTube video on absurdism that I’ve been working on, but soon I changed my mind and continued to work on both YouTube and philosophy.

I started working on the ItRaN page and moved some stuff from the Start Here page because it belonged on the core kernel page. Then I wrote about my epistemology and started working on my logic system.

While I was doing that, I was also tempted to join a distance learning MA in Philosophy course from IGNOU. Then I discovered that I could download all of the course material and since these distance learning courses are mostly self-learning anyway, and I don’t need a degree, only the knowledge, so I decided not to join the course and just study the material on my own.

The material so far is mostly a kind of primer on the topics but there’s a suggested reading list which will be helpful going forward. But the main thing I realized was that while I’m building my own logic system, I need to know enough of the traditional systems so as to be able to talk about them intelligently and differentiate my system from traditional systems.

Then I started working on improving the logic page and adding an example argument to show how my system would work and trying to build a complete system in one go. This predictably led me to getting stuck and having doubts about the entire project. This is why this period between devlog posts got so long.

Eventually, though I remembered that I’m doing iterative development. I don’t need to figure everything out in my head. I don’t need to make the pages perfect. Everything is going to get updated eventually.

This has become a strategy not just for my philosophy project but all my projects including my entire life. Focus on the process and not on the results. If I just work consistently and make sure each day is good, the results will come automatically.

Next Steps

I’ll be doing three things primarily in philosophy; learning from the course material I’ve downloaded, developing my own arguments and letting the logic emerge from that, and on the blog I’m going to write more shorter blog posts about the ideas I’ve introduced in the introduction on Start Here page.

There’s no set schedule or deadlines. I’m just going to focus on the process day to day and let the rest happen on its own.