Welcome Back

For the past 20 years of my career I have known that I should blog. I’ve watched so many people use blogging as a way to advance their career. As makers, investors, or just writers. I know how hard it is. I’ve had starts and stops. Mostly stops. In fact I haven’t really blogged since 2015. In the heyday of Tumblr I had a blog that had some followers because of Streampad and Exfm. As Tumblr sold and lost its way I stopped blogging. Truth is I don’t really share much of anything online these days. A blogger I love, Simon Willison, recently was asked about blogging.

My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you have written, because the only alternative is a huge folder full of drafts and never publishing anything at all.

— Simon Willison

That was then linked to and added on with this by John Gruber

This is excellent advice. Me, I try to get into the mindset of playing live music, not recording a studio album. Except when I’m writing a piece where I really want it to be an album. Those aren’t rare, per se, but they’re occasional. If I tried to make every post a hall-of-famer I’d never get anything out.

— Daring Fireball

Reading those two posts gave me some renewed inspiration. But I still had a problem. I didn’t have anywhere to publish. For years I resisted blogging with the excuse that I didn’t want to use anyone else’s platform. I knew I could build a simple blog on AWS, but who has time for that. This morning I woke up with a full week’s worth of Codex and a few more resets that are going to expire. So I figured what the hell and gave it a goal - “create a blog for me and an accompanying iOS app to make posting easier.” I then headed to the pool. Roughly 12 hours later, I’m writing my first post in the app.