Read an interesting bklog entry today by John Maeda over at the MIT media lab. The opening line echoes a feeling I often have:

There are times in my life where I am uncertain whether I am really getting anything done.

And then, in the next paragraph:

They usually happen when I'm doing too many things at once.

Which is exactly the case with me. With my own websites (1, 2, 3), my photography, projects with John and Aaron, the design website with Gaile and compounded with my minimal attention span I constantly feel pulled in too many directions. Sometimes it is so hard to decide what to work on, I just decide to not work on anything.

Like Mr. Maeda says, "Those are dangerous times", so eventually I pick a project and bury myself in it for an evening and instantly feel better. Productive again. Ready for the next challenge.

Have you ever watched a leaf being carried down a river? Most of the time the leaf is cruising, going with the flow, but sometimes it gets trapped in an eddy and whirlpools around for a while. Then something gives and the leaf breaks free, cruising once again. Well, it's kind of like that.