Shortcuts through the grass

A desire path is a shortcut people have taken so many times, it erodes the grass away, forming a cute little path.

Fuck the sidewalk. Fuck “supposed to.” Fuck the rules. Just go however you want.

Take a shortcut. Be the first guy who goes the smart way. People will copy you and you will feel cool.

“oh no! the grass!” shut up. pavement is worse. both for your knees and the environment.

what is this, a prison? what are we even doing?

Apply the desire path mentality to everything

Make your own little shortcuts. They will become fun little traditions.

• automate it
• write a macro
• build a robot to do it for you
• make peace with the /tmp folder. ~/projects is never going to happen.
• write the README when you’re done. you’re going to change everything anyway
• say “yes” to how you already do things. stop telling yourself you’ll fix the process.
• leave your desk messy. this is your real workflow. “clean desk” religion is dumb.
• abandon all the books you don’t like. you read it. done.
• discard the clothing you only wish you wore
• rename the “junk drawer” to something friendlier. you need that stuff. organizing is how you lose things.
• buy a charger for every location
• ghost all the energy-sucking losers in your life. you’re not going to “write a proper response tomorrow”
• stop watering the plant. it’s dead.
• make claims about joint health without having a clue. looking it up is boring.

It’s time to accept observable reality over the identity you keep pretending to have.