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Ze Frank coined the term brain crack to describe ideas that are cherished but never acted on. Since I heard him speak of brain crack, I’ve recognised what a large and pathological part of my life it is and I’ve started trying to eliminate it from my life. I try to put as many of the thinking ideas that occur to me — however ill-formed, ill-thought out, stupid or potentially uninteresting  — on my blog. I put the more practical ideas in a notebook and try to act on them. I might start keeping the queue of practical ideas on a page on my site to shame myself into keeping projects ticking over.

(If you are unfamiliar with Ze Frank, I urge you to visit his website.)

Every element of the site is under constant revision, although I’m trying to move myself to a state where I can accept that everything is a first draft, even the polished stuff. I don’t want the site to turn into brain crack.

A lot of other ideas happen to me and they tend to get used in conversation with my friends, so they get dispersed easily and quickly.

One final thing. I try to make my blog as much as possible from the stuff that happens to me or occurs to me. The aim is to be a record of a stream-of-consciousness. However, I hope it never becomes just a link aggregator or a journal.

Here’s Ze Frank talking about feeling uninspired.

I don’t promote the site and I’m pretty sure that it attracts most hits from my friends visiting. Sorry, that’s wrong. It gets most trafic from indexing robots and also from email address harvesters from Spammer, Inc. My friends dominate the my friends traffic though.