Depth Year (of Sorts)

In my last post I mentioned I was considering making 2019 a depth year:

…take a whole year in which you don’t start anything new or acquire any new possessions you don’t need.

No new hobbies, equipment, games, or books are allowed during this year. Instead, you have to find the value in what you already own or what you’ve already started.

You improve skills rather than learning new ones. You consume media you’ve already stockpiled instead of acquiring more…

I was considering not buying anything new (toothpaste, etc aside) in 2019 as part of this experiment, but I think a few simple rules will suffice. I’m already pretty minimalist when it comes to clothes, I haven’t bought a new instrument or bicycle in years (in fact I’ve sold a few bikes). I bought some gadgets last year, I bought or subscribed to some more software. I bought bicycling clothes (to the point I probably won’t need any more this year). So far I haven’t bought anything from Amazon in 2019. I have subscribed to one new software service this year (more on that in a later post–it’s still my best-kept secret).

So taking stock:

So my rules are pretty well laid out in the above. No new bike or musical equipment (this means the home recording setup I keep dreaming of will have to wait, as will learning Ableton or some other DAW). No new gadgets. No new books. No new games. No new hobbies (not that I’ve had time to even pursue my old ones). No new giant projects (writing, software, records [not that I have any songs]).

What I’d really like to go deep on are relationships. But that, I suppose, is yet another future post.

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