Isn’t it great to sleep on a project, and find the inspiration to finish the problem the next day? In this defense of procrastination, I do not encourage finishing work under an adrenaline rush, or fear of failure; but through the synthesis of information after mulling through it in one’s head in a state of reflection.
At the beginning of this year, I knew that I would be
refocusing my blog into the topic of engineering. I even got an internet domain name. The “study
skills” posts of the past two months were an advance party for writing in a new
genre: any engineering blog worth its salt needs to talk about the Professional
Engineering exam. Then it dawned on me: How much remarkable content could I
produce? How many State Board meetings would I need to sit in, to capture good
soundbites? How could I be regarded as an authority, when I am still early in
my career? Weekly posts on monthlong projects might sound like project status
updates. But as I attended the needs of graduate school, and now for Professional
Engineering licensure, I let the concept sit; and simmer into good stew.
An older idea I had was to develop a central listserv of continuing
education opportunities in the marine engineering field. Today, each ‘school’
maintains its own course catalog of regulatorily- equivalent education. Since it would not be a blog, per se, I set
the idea aside. Now, I revisited why I warmed to this training directory idea
in the first place: to share useful knowledge in the marine engineering field. So,
in early 2022, after some more planning, I expect to move my blog into that
specialized direction. Such clarity of intention took a year to develop; I’m
glad I procrastinated.
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