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Making more, taking less

All my life I have been more of a consumer of stuff than a creator of it. I prefer reading to writing, for example. I read more about technical topics (programming languages, frameworks, programs, databases, whatever) than I actually go and use them. I read more code than I write. It also happens with photography; I read about it and look at way more photos than I actually take.

But I'm trying to change that. I'm trimming the amount of feeds I subscribe to, and I'm being more ruthless with them; I'm trying to only read one or two articles a day and just discard everything else in the feeds. I went back to programming in Rust in my free time, which will help me finally finish that emulator project of mine and, in the not-so-distant future, program games for my small daughter. I'm doing courses at work to learn how to _make_ new things. Finally, I'm also taking more and more photographs every day (of my family instead of the street, because that's what actually matters).

I'll turn 40 in a couple of months, and I'm trying to change a lot of twenty-year-old habits. Is this midlife crisis?

Yesterday, I was wondering if Gemini being space-themed actually means, at least for me, than I can write freely, as if shouting into outer space. That is a really liberating thought.

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