GoKawiilare all-encompassing.
I truly mean that.
It's hard to grasp what that means.
ALL is a huge little word. Encompassing everything seems impossible. And yet, with Alexandra, this seems to be occurring. And with others to a lesser extent but Alex highlights the impact best.
Specifically to me, it appears all my social needs are being met by her alone. This is wild. This includes work, friendship, novelty, so much outside of a standard girlfriend boyfriend life partner frame, as one thing among many.
My blog audience for example, was always mostly for my future self and incidentally for friends and family peeking into my skull as i output. Now I don't even need to blog. I just talk to Alex and I feel satisfied.
Some might say this is unhealthy or codependent or some stupid diagnosis without analyzing any symptoms. Let me explain the symptoms. It starts where most relationships buckle under stress: money or lack thereof, work, financial shit, career spoils.
Often, tech companies have a policy of "demo Fridays" or something similar. This practice is fluid, nothing like agile scrum whatever. Just imagine small and mid-sized startups or teams in large orgs gathering around a proverbial campfire.
Volunteers or a rotating roster of employees do a kind of all-hands rapid-fire showcase of what they're working on. Say 5 minutes each, or 60 seconds to share, whatever: the elevator pitch, wireframe walkthru, prototype in progress. Q&A optional. Maybe just a free-for-all lunch after.
It's a great forcing function for creativity as well as progress, and I believe Elon is one of the masters of the demo as was Steve Jobs. The juices flow in all the heads: founder CEO, core employees, shareholders, customers, hard short sellers and long softies behind the index funds, kids who hear the world just changed and we are heading to Mars...
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