Heyaa
Itās been a long week, no?
It certainly has been for me. I donāt remember sending my last newsletter. It was such a drag. Even when I couldnāt understand how the days are passing.
Itās not all hail and hearty for the last few days.
Work is piling up even if Iām taking care of them at a somewhat reasonable pace. And still, Iām reaching out to propects (for freelance work).
I donāt even know what Iām doing.
OK, Iām done thinking out loud.
Let me get to an insteresting event from yester-evening (Saturdayās).
But first, a song. I need some noise-blocking mechanismā¦ with some noise. Yes.
OK, done!
So, Saturday evening. It was a chaos. (When it never is?) It was a special kind of chaos.
My laptop broke down. It wasnāt turning up. It wasnāt turning up after I hit restart. It wasnāt turning up after I hit restart after installing a game.
The horror from a few months ago returned to eyes.
I was checking my uncleās laptop 6 months ago as it turned into a brick. A 2-kg brick. Stuck in a restart loop, you know.
That laptop came from a repair after a fresh format, and I turned it dead within an hour. Should I be proud? I better not be.
In the same state now, with my laptop.
Not that important docs will be gone. I have automatic backup setup. Still, setting up laptop from scratch and restoring everything is a hassle I donāt feel like getting in.
And thatās when I recalled something the repair person said last time for my uncleās laptop. They got it working by disabling driver check. Then, they got to reset it.
I did the same with mine, disabled driver check and it turned on next. Uninstalled the game right away.
Is the problem solved? I donāt know. Itās kind of Schrodinger's laptop now.
Unless I restart I wonāt find out. And I am not willing to get into the loop again.
Trying to install a ācrackedā game via torrents got my laptop cracked.
This is exactly why I donāt suggest people downloading files from torrent sites. I do that blatantly but I donāt want to be a part of someoneās broken laptop because of my suggestion.
Apart from that, recently, Meta (Facebook) wasnāt allowing me to set up ads. The page wasnāt opening even.
Had to clear browser cache, losing all my logins and dark mode on different sites.
Then a friend helped me with the ads. Couldnāt set them up as needed, but at least I know now not to get into ads anytime soon. Iām better as an organic marketer.
Friends have helped me a lot during my book launch. I got tips in tweaking my book pre-launch landing page (Itās now live on Amazon by the way), as well as while creating the final version of the book.
Even this video I shared on social media isnāt my work. Just tweaked to my taste, thatās it.
People are the most important thing, aren't they?
I know it can be taxing taking in all the suggestions. Chaar log chaar tarah ki baatein. (Four people and their four different suggestions)
Thatās when you should allow your brain to chime in. Listen to everyone but act as per your judgment. Only when you see some logic behind a suggestion, you should implement it.
You canāt go about changing everything.Ā
Unless youāre a 100-plus-person team. Then, you can test and tweak as much as you want. Do your project bottom-up even.
Itās not an option for a solopreneur.
A slopreneur struggling with twenty different projects. I simply canāt work on one project at a time, actually. Not the kind of guy with laser-sharp focus.
The least I can dabble in is three projects a day.
One thing a day is borrrrring. I wonder how people work one job for years. If I could have done that, at least I would have a stable life by now.
Oh, that reminds me of a book Iām currently reading: There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job.
Hereās the premise (partly copied from Goodreads):
A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job thatās close to her home, requires no reading, no writingā¦ and ideally, very little thinking.
She gets a job at some kind of security agency. Her task is to watch the hidden camera feed of an author suspected of storing illegal goods.
It was exactly the kind of job she wanted. She was doing well. But she didnāt feel like renewing her contract.
Observing someone for hours on end can be so tiresome. Not an easy job.
She hops into the employment agency again. The next job she finds is as a copywriter/editor in a bus company.
She likes this job, too, but due to some situation, sheās again on the fence about continuing the job or not.
And itās kinda same here.
Canāt stick to one thingā¦ and going nowhere in particular. I envy people who have plans. 22 tak padhai, 25 pe naukri, 26 pe chokri, 30 pe bachche, 60 pe retirement.
Forget plan A or Bā¦
I can somewhat plan my day, or mark tasks for the weekendsā¦ Tasks for the weekends that pile up so high that they donāt seem to end even if Iām taking care of them one by one.
Itās just like my reading list.
I had 235 books in my reading list. I read 15, and now itās 397.
By the way, do you follow me on IG? I recently found a way to post recorded Reels without having to show myself.
Have posted only two recorded Reels so far.
This is the latest one:
Took me 3 seconds for the idea, and 3 days to muster the courage to record. Yep, even when Iām not facing the camera, Iām having a hard time recording.
OK, Iām feeling tired now. So, thatās all for today. This newsletter anyway became a blog-long.
Bidding adieu.
Live long and prosper.
See you next week, with another story.