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This TOTW setup sets up a simplistic binary between "realistic" individual projects and "fantastical" collective/organizing ideals. It is a caricature of 'organizing' with little resemblance to what 'organizers' do or say. I don't think of myself as an organizer, and I think ideas about organizing tend towards simplistic ideas and action, but a retreat into individual projects is just as silly, and based in other fantasies: that each of us is a self-enclosed individual with its own desires and linear plans, and that these individual objectives and capacities could be separated from all our human and non-human relationships and dependencies.

If the mass-movement-organizer fantasy is an inheritance from Christianity and the Left, the individual-planner-achiever is a fantasy derived from liberalism and capitalism. The most lucid part of the TOTW intro is that individual projects might "resemble ordinary life under capitalism" -- yeah, because we are being 'organized' all the time, whether we like it or not, by the state and capitalism, and “the individual” is one of its most basic building blocks. A "life built on individual capacities alone" is not worth celebrating; you sound like Elon Musk.

I think it's worth thinking about how to organize or be organized differently, in ways where we aren't rendered passive or massified. Part of why I like collective projects is that I find it easier to hold together projects with others, compared to holding together my precarious 'individual self'. I want concepts and ways of coming together that avoid the stupid traps of treating either 'the group' or 'the individual' as something natural or fixed. The individual and the mass are both spooks, and they become dismal fantasies when we can't mess them up and reconfigure them. I will be interested in collaborating with other people for the rest of my life. I will be an anarchist for as long as that label helps me find others and do interesting things with them.