It's been a while

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Yeah, I’ve been neglecting this blog for a long time. It’s been a long struggle, but after years of self reflecting and working on myself, I’ve decided to refocus myself; and this blog is a part of that effort.

I’ve found in the past what’s most kept from writing wasn’t a lack of ideas, or a lack of desire to write about them, but a combination of a lack of specificity on which topics and audience to write about/for, and my natural perfectionism keeping me from ever considering a topic complete. I have a pile of draft posts I never finished because I was always writing the most complete article for the broadest audience.

To that end, I’ll be changing methods a bit; instead of trying for “big concept” the posts, I’ll be writing about what I’ve done that might be of interest — not to the universal general (tech-savvy) readers — but to myself or rather my past self. Whether that be my past self from a week ago, a year ago, or a decade ago will depend in large part on the topics of the post, but the effect is simple: by writing for my past self, I’ll know my audience-of-one intimately; so I can better see what is and is not relevant, when enough is enough.¹

Readers who find themselves much like (past) me will naturally get use out of this content; that is indeed my hope. And I can benefit from having a repository of previous discoveries & solutions to problems, especially ones I can anticipate having again in the future.

As I mentioned, I have a pile of notes and drafts I’ve been collecting over the years that I can convert into posts, and I plan to do so as I find them useful to myself again. After all, why bother having to search Google for the nth time on problem I’ve solved before when I can keep a handy archive of such solutions in one place?

If anybody else finds those solutions helpful, all the better.