This is not a polished blog.
I’m still in a mostly flow, very little stock place.
I’m coming up with ideas for blog posts all the time, and keeping a list of them in Notion:
Most of these blog post ideas are for helping people, for sharing ideas related to work. I do tend to and intend to blog about everything, and work is part of everything. But I never feel like writing these posts, even though I have all these ideas. And I think it’s because I mostly conceive of this as a personal blog. And those topics all feel only personal-adjacent. Not impersonal, mind you, but they’re just not where I’m at right now. Maybe I’ll get to them later.
My friend @tiff_frye posted her first substantive post here on Micro.blog yesterday, saying
I guess this is a personal blog, and through it I want to explore the things I think about every day in an effort to clarify and examine my thoughts.
That’s what I mean to be doing here, but instead I’ve been coming up with lists of things like I was trying to create an SEO-optimized, super pro, Darren Rowse-approved (let’s be clear, I love Darren Rowse, I think he’s great) blog. And that’s NOT what I’m doing. I’m trying to create an old-fashioned, late ’90s/early ’00s online diary. Jennicam, but with words.
Maybe clearly stating my intentions in that fashion will help me stay where I mean to be.
Maybe this is an impromptu manifesto.