Early yesterday morning, I made a technical boo-boo that took the better part of the day to clean up and fix. I blame my blurry eyesight for the early-morning blunder. Some of us shouldn’t be allowed near a computer before the caffeine kicks in.
By the time everything was finally sorted out, I had spent hours untangling a mess that never needed to exist in the first place. A classic self-inflicted tech wound. The kind that left me muttering, “Well, that was dumb!”
So this morning I made an executive decision. I slept in and started my day a little later than usual. I wanted to be more rested, a little sharper, and far less likely to make the same mistake twice.
But here’s the funny thing about yesterday.
Fixing my little oops-a-daisy actually made my Substack better.
The problem forced me to slow down and take a closer look at a few things that had been sitting in the background for a while. Small tweaks. Minor improvements. A little housekeeping and debugging that probably would have stayed on the “I will get to it eventually” list for weeks.
Instead, it all got handled in one long, focused work session.
Two steps forward. One step back.
That’s how progress usually works. Even though we like to pretend otherwise.
Most of us imagine growth as a straight line. A clean upward climb where effort goes in, results come out, and everything keeps moving neatly in the right direction.
Real life is a helluva lot messier than that.
Progress zigs and it zags. It stalls. It doubles back. Sometimes the step backward is the very thing that forces us to notice what still needs fixing.
Yesterday was one of those days.
A simple mistake. A pain-in-the-ass fix. A better Substack on the other side of it.
Progress. She’s not linear. And neither are we.
Keep calm and keep moving!
Clint 🌈✌️
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