# Retreat at RC - Volitional Muscles - What to do I have a mix of feelings for each items on [[My retreat at the recurse center]] and [[My retreat at RC - Volitional Muscles - Why]]. Helpful tip: - estimate time Use other people's fingerwork and brainwork: - I could advertise the programs I am working on - raza for example ## Writing I feel a bit stressed by the **writing**, because it is not coding. And really I should be focused on coding to properly interact with other people in the batch. Noone cares about my writing. On the other hand, I really enjoy getting better at it. Also, other people *do* read what I write. I also set out to get "numb" writing, and this feeling I have right now is part of the growing pains, if I look back at how making music felt. Plus, writing is something I can do incrementally. I don't need to spend 4 h a day writing. Once things become really routine, I can work on bigger articles a piece at a time, or writing smaller presentations. ## CLI utilities / data utilities I feel a bit stressed about the real coding projects, because they are - something to get done - something already clearly laid out in my head that others might not get an edge in - not that interesting overall On the other hand, how $#@) cool will it be to have say, a full version of [[PROJ - Raza - keep history forever|raza]]. This alone is worth pursuing. If I don't do it within RC, when will I ever get the experience of making a successful wrapped up opensource project. I need to get "numb" to it in the same way I want to get "numb" at writing. ## Technologies I want to learn This feels very close to the CLI utilities, to be honest. ## Random things I feel stressed because this is not the stuff I really want to do nor have been thinking about for so long. On the other hand, this is where the hidden gems might be. Maybe I will really enjoy having learned [[Embedded Rust]] really well and found my love for it again. Or I might get really disappointed. Maybe I will forget about [[Alloy]] and other weird things. Maybe these are things that I can do on my own, and the community aspect of it won't bring me that much?