OBSSIBLEMake a first version.
A useful page, a short video, a rough demonstration. Give the idea a form you can inspect.
Obsess Until It's Possible.
You know a lot.Make somethingof your own.
Turn what you've learned and lived into something you can put in another person's hands. Make it, learn from it, and make it better.
A book in progress. A practice of learning through making.
The book being made here.
For the person with a full notebook
and something still waiting to be made.
A saved idea. An unfinished draft. A project you keep preparing for. OBSSIBLE starts with the gap between what you know and what you have actually made.
The approach
Make to Learn.
Start with something small enough to attempt. Let the work reveal what you need to learn next.
Find the missing piece.
Notice where the draft breaks, the explanation gets vague, or the work doesn't do what you intended.
Learn what it needs.
Read, ask, and experiment with a specific question. Bring the answer back to the work.
Share. Then revise.
Put it in front of someone who might use it. Let their response inform the next version.
A place to start
Take one question you can answer from experience. Make a one-page guide for someone facing it. Find out which part still needs explaining.
The first build
The OBSSIBLE book.
A book about moving from collecting knowledge to making something useful. I'm writing it while putting that idea into practice.
- Choose a goal and an action you can take now.
- Find material in what you've already lived and learned.
- Make, show, and improve a piece of work.
The manuscript is still in progress.
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A first look, in progress.
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OBSSIBLE Sample BookExcerpt from the book in progress
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The principles behind OBSSIBLE
A goal to stay with.
A way to keep going.
Obsess over the goal.
Choose something that matters to you. Work on what is possible now, and stay willing to change the method when it isn't working.
Cut everything else.
Protect time for the work you've chosen. Notice when another tool, another plan, or more preparation is taking its place.
Move every day.
Move your body. Give physical activity a place in your day alongside the things you want to make.
Building OBSSIBLE
The work is
part of the story.
I started OBSSIBLE because I wanted what I learned to become something I could put into the world.
I'm working on the book and making videos about the process: the decisions, the drafts, what falls short, and what changes in the next attempt.
AI is part of that work. I use it to question ideas, shape drafts, and build things. The choices and the responsibility for what goes out remain mine.
This is a project being built in public. The book and videos will grow from the work as it happens.