- Working title
- A Thought About Being Useful
- Category
- Thoughts
- Topic
- Philosophy
- Mood
- Reflective
- Core idea
- Usefulness can become a strange measure of the day when there is no outside structure to check it.
- Real-world trigger
- Looking back at a day of small tasks and wondering whether any of it counted.
- Specific detail to use
- A notebook with three crossed-off jobs and one task carried over.
- Post shape
- Micro-essay
- Ending direction
- Leave the question open rather than turning it into a lesson.