# Hello world By [Cel Norocos](https://paragraph.com/@celnorocos) · 2022-09-24 --- The original intent I had for this was to have the body of this text match the title and call it a day, mint my first Mirror post and be on the my merry way. I’m completing Rabbithole.gg tasks to get more familiar with Web 3 tools generally, you see. I didn’t sign up for a writing exercise or at least that’s not what I originally planned on. And yet I’m still writing. I’ll just commit to NFT form some thoughts I’ve had so that they will be immortalized on the Ethereum blockchain forever and they can taunt me into being accountable to my past self. I have spent too much of my free and leisure time “learning”. The problem is not that I’ve learned too much, but that I haven’t learned enough. I mean that what has preoccupied me is faux learning. I’m a crusher of podcasts and a consumer of Twitter threadooors. This is all right and good, but it has been a very passive learning process and, in the words of Morty in the Vat of Acid Episode, “What am I building?” Unfortunately the answer is nothing. I am a few pegs above the content consumer NPC types in the movie Wall-E, but not that many. Like Morty says, “We are who we are because of consequences. You can't live without consequences. You know, you feel me?” Unfortunately, being a passive content consumer, even if that content is “educational”, doesn’t help you progress beyond a rudimentary level of familiarity. Beyond that, you have to take risks, put yourself out there and try putting your knowledge to work if you want to continue growing. How I’ll do that, I’m not sure yet. I would like to build a business one day, but not for the sake of building a business. Much better to have a half decent idea that might be useful to other people. Or at the very least, I want to spend more time writing. Taking the risk of putting my thoughts in the world for everyone to see may be stressful, but at least it will help me deal with the feelings I have of my brain melting from too much podcasting and news consumption. To a bright new future! Future me has to deal with the consequences of my committing to more work, but present me is excited about it. --- *Originally published on [Cel Norocos](https://paragraph.com/@celnorocos/hello-world)*