On Paralysis, Punishment, and Permission

the analysis loop — paralysis as a trap I’ve been squirming like a fly trapped under water — never still, never free. I obsessed over productivity tools. I consulted the smartest LLMs, hoping they’d tell me something about myself I hadn’t realized. I was always chasing the next question, the next issue, the next frame. Whenever a thought made me uncomfortable — and it was almost always the planning ones — I’d instinctively move on. Generating a new framework is frictionless. Making an old one re