Breaking the seal
The hardest part is getting started
(article in progress, incoherent ramblings for now)
My mom always told me “don’t start a blog in January” (if you wont still be posting in December) / never trust a blog that was started in January
People aren’t reading the internet anymore, the internet is for bots now. that’s not gonna stop me, though…i got lots to say!
i’ve got dozens of articles in various states of completion…but i’m a perfectionist and i’ve got a lot going on so it takes me FOREVER to get any writing polished to the degree that i’m actually happy with it
so whatever, let’s just put it out there! we can make it better later
it’s the same for writing as it is for development as it is for making art as it is for writing music
- you gotta start somewhere
- you can edit as you go along
shitty first draft (anne lamott)
the first page is nothing important (or whatever merlin mann said) — oh yeah, “The first page is profound”
napoleons battle plan (show up, see what happens), doesn’t have to be good just has to be something
getting used to the habit of producing, finding your voice etc
i also know some day someone’s going to look at this archive and i don’t want them to say “ew he started with ‘hello world, this is my blog, hopefully i’ll keep posting here regularly’
the hardest part is getting started, staring at a blank canvas. but the easiest way to get started is to just start, knowing that the initial iteration of an idea can be discarded
i don’t like starting things with “hello world”, i like using “ex nihilo” in all my oss projects (for first commit messages), and i also think it’s funny to use the first sentence from the satanic bible just because (in this arid wilderness of steel and stone, i raise up my voice that you may hear)
I love Lil B’s “somebody tell the trees I’m here now,” but it’s too far out of left field for most people to get the reference.
Anyway, hello world, this is my blog, hopefully I’ll keep posting here regularly.
