< the skull

MY SMALL MONSTER OF 8.2 MILLION WORDS
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2026-06-14

Well, let’s recap the past week.

As usual — and honestly, it couldn’t have been any other way — I had a week
packed with work. And of course, I mixed that with personal projects, which left
me with almost no time to... sleep. Truth is, I haven’t been sleeping much for a
long time now.

This week, I decided to put the ordinary worries of corporate life aside for a
bit and focus on organizing everything I had created during whatever “free time”
I managed to find.

I started by opening the folder where I had dumped EVERYTHING I had written. And
everything I had researched.

The idea had been simple: I would create a text file for each research topic,
each exercise, each translation, each piece of writing, and so on.

My surprise was realizing that the folder itself had become a monstrosity —
something I had let grow completely out of control over the past two years. At
that point, I would probably need more time to organize it than I had spent
creating it.

So I decided to pay for one month of Claude and put my friend over there to work
organizing my files. A way to save time. And no, I’m not possessive about what I
create, nor am I afraid of being “stolen from.”

Once my little monster — the archive — was finally organized, I had an idea. I
asked it to generate some stats on what had been produced, and one number really
stood out:

8.2 million words.

Kind of terrifying, right?

But that’s it.

I’m very tired today. I’d like to talk more about it, but I’ll leave that for
sometime next week.


< the skull