Botsitting
The subscription is the small line. The real meter is the time you spend feeding context, checking output, catching the confident mistake, and cleaning up the work that looked finished. That hidden labor has a name now: botsitting.
#attention
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The Patient Part
My head does not run in a line, it runs in branches. A tool arrived that does the exact part I cannot do and amplifies the exact part I already do too much. On building with an agent when your attention has its own ideas.
ATTENTION IS THE LOOM: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap where the loom does the dancing
ATTENTION IS THE LOOM is Song 06 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about attention: what you attend to becomes the cloth, and the rest falls through. The front and the back of the embroidery are both true, and the gap is the rhythm. This pass rebuilt the motion from scratch so the loom actually weaves and the camera dives through the cloth to its knotted back. CC BY 4.0.
On Threads: Where Attention Should Go
Time was never the constraint. We just lacked the language to describe what was. A meditation on attention, collaboration, and where the threads of a life should go.