The kinds of things that move me enough to freewrite

Reading or watching/listening to someone/something creative often inspires me. A smaller subset actually gets me off my ass to get to a notebook- I make this process pleasant by writing with a fountain pen. Once there’s enough on a page, I’ll know that I have either reached an end or, less often, I’ll feel like I need to get to a computer. Sometimes I finish what I need to say in a day or two but there are some that I can’t get done with in one day. I believe these are worthy of revisiting for further expansion as Future Essays.

Note: The space stuff I have been ingesting for a long time so those are more from researching something specific (like ISS Connectors) or for teaching whereas writing about other topics (like Moravec’s Paradox) emerged from stumbling onto some specific content (usually mentioned in the piece).