Why start a blog?#
I’m starting this blog partly to become a better writer and communicator. I have so many ideas rumbling around in my head. The only way I’ve found to make them cohesive is to write them down.
I use Obsidian for all my notes. So I could just use it as a journal and only write to myself. There is absolutely value in personal writing.
I don’t want to just write for myself though. I’d like to share my ideas out loud. I left almost all social media1 in 2020. It’s hard to recreate the feeling of blasting out half baked ideas into tweets without Twitter.2 I have no desire to go back, but I do wish to release my thoughts somewhere besides my poor partner’s ears.3
Outside of that, I yearn for a return4 to personal online spaces as avenues for self-expression. Freedom from the walled garden. Freedom from enshittification. A decentralized internet built on open standards.
I aim to put out a post once a week. No restrictions on length or effort. I just want to start the habit and see where it goes from there.
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Posts that inspired me#
- Write it Now - Josh Thompson
- Some blogging myths - Julia Evans
- My Writing Process and How I Keep It Sustainable - Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya
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Sans LinkedIn since it’s essentially required for jobs these days ↩︎
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I don’t feel the need to call it X since I left before that existed ↩︎
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They are so loving and supportive and seem to actually love the deluge of thoughts that pour out of me late at night as they fall asleep ↩︎
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I am aware that “return” invokes a prelapsarian ideal that may have never existed. My earliest memories of the internet are from around 2005 in a post Facebook and Amazon world ↩︎