Writing things just because
Modern life throws so many stimuli at us that our deep work capacity is overthrown by the curse of constant context switch. Nowadays, I look at the main character of Memento with awe, "what a good memory he has" I reckon.
This is why I love to write stuff I know is available in a thousand blog posts, and a small prompt away as well.
I'd write the most inane articles about concepts that are common knowledge, over and over, with small code examples that accompany them, forcing me to go through the motions of "sitting down", studying, and explain them to myself in a way my clownfish-like memory will pick up fast.
And it works, it works like a charm, it's been around 4 months I wrote two articles about simple math concepts I wanted to solidify, and yesterday I put them to the test while I was showering, seeing if I could remember them. I did, I recalled the what, why, how, and the exact formula.
Lately I have been working on a personal app project and I've been way too lost on the minutiae of boilerplate, configuring claude to write the endpoints as I wanted, following the conventions, stumbling AGAIN to remember how OAuth/OIDC worked, and I got discouraged quickly, only being able to work in it when I felt truly motivated, which is almost never.
I am going back to writing small articles and scripts that illustrate and reinforce the concepts I want to learn, and I encourage you to do the same.