Day 20: You can't rush inspiration

But you can foster it.

90 isn’t the best number for clean percentage milestones, but I’m officially 22.222% of the way to day 90.

Here’s something I built today (inspired by Infinite Craft). It’s a tool I built for myself to brainstorm ideas, but let me know if you think it’d be useful for you:

If you’d have asked me on day 1 to predict where I’d be by now, my answer would probably be… hilariously incorrect. It’s so much easier to plan everything in your head. “I’ll have an idea in 5 days, spend 5 days building it, then release it!” But if there’s one thing I’ve learned from all the YouTube videos I’ve watched of people who have gone through this, it’s that you can’t predict when inspiration will strike.

I have noticed, however, an uptick in the amount of ideas and problems I’m noticing nowadays. Just a few days ago, I walked by a few mattresses on the street and thought about how many mattresses must go to waste since most people don’t want to buy a used mattress. I’ve walked by mattresses before, but with the eye for seeking out problems, I only just noticed it as a potential problem to solve. I just wish I had something I could work on that wasn’t this serendipitous noticing of problems in the world.