Sometimes it seems like there's a recipe to everything. As if no matter what you're doing, it's just a matter of throwing in the same ingredients, doing the same grunt work, and you'll get your cookies. Of course it's never (or rarely) that simple at first, but once you get something right—or at least sort of right—it's so easy to get locked into the behaviour that achieved it.

Let's do the same thing on a new day, again and again. We need cookies, after all.

Positive reinforcement can lead to genuine self-improvement for sure, but I can't help but see the festering complacency on the side. At first I was thinking of this just in terms of creative work, but it really applies all over. How many cookies do you need to just keep going? Would you ever beg for them if you couldn't make enough for yourself?

Humanity was brilliant to invent money. Look how much good and bad it does, and all for a cookie we can't even eat.


_{...You can buy some though.}