Bulldozer00's Blog

I believe that human beings love personal stories and direct experiential reports. Thus, even though it’s highly proprietary and super secret, I’m going to expose the somewhat repeatable “process” that I use for whipping up dumbass blog posts.

Here’s how BD00 does the dirty deed…

• Every morning, after going to bed between 8-9 PM, I wake up between 4-5 AM.
• I fire up a pot of coffee and then sit down at the computer.
• I navigate to the wordpress.com BD00 dashboard.
• I mine “fieldstone” writing ideas from: my “gym notes“, my quotes pages, an interesting interaction or tainted observation at work, random web surfing, my kindle highlights, a twitter post.
• I wait…..
• A freakin’ miracle occurs!
• I start writing words or drawing a picture, or both.
• I chaotically jump back and forth ‘tween writing and drawing – iteration city.
• Sometimes, I write some words, draw a picture, and then finish the words.
• Sometimes, I write all the words first and then re-scan them for drawing ideas.
• Sometimes, I draw a partial picture, write some words, and then I finish the pic.
• Sometimes, I draw a complete picture first and then I write the words that go with it.
• I iterate over the words + picture combo multiple times until…. I say “WTF, I’m done!“

Of course, even though the BD00 process is expressed as a nice and tidy bulleted list above, it’s not a procedure. To highlight the non-sequential nature of the process, here’s the UML state machine diagram model:

Note the numerous initial entry points and that every state has an iterative transition “to self“. That’s because I Am A Strange Loop.