A journal experiment for the month of April in 2018
I am live-blogging my entire process and thought patterns around work this month. Follow along!
Posts:
- Wed at 07:34 - An update: one thing
- Sat at 01:14 - Closing projects from C to G
- Fri at 14:51 - Hoodies and website edits
- Fri at 12:46 - Learning to say no
- Wed at 08:41 - Issues with streaks
- Thu at 22:13 - Silent Book Club
- Wed at 16:49 - Maintainer Repository Audits and Open Collective
- Wed at 12:16 - Open Source Meetups in Montreal
- Wed at 11:31 - Why am I writing on this site?
- Wed at 11:27 - Planning better social media integration for posts
- Tue at 20:54 - The CBC and daily roundup
- Mon at 20:08 - Web development day
- Mon at 11:38 - The Litt Review
- Mon at 11:32 - April priorities
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I realise that I haven’t been clear how this blog is useful to me. Here’s the short version: this blog helps me distill my thoughts by forcing me to write them out for an external audience, in a sort of rubber-ducking. It also helps me point those thoughts at others, so I can ask questions or get feedback. Finally, it’s helpful as a reminder that I’m not working alone; I have friends and ‘followers’ (whatever that actually means) who are interested in what I’m doing, and whom I may be able to help and who may be able to help me in approaching our goals. Making in public is better, for this reason, than making in private. It enables community, even if community in this case consists of writing posts like this.
There are downsides. It takes time, for one. For two, it’s public - I’m not exactly holding back a ton, here (unless you want to know about stress fracture recovery and the plumber fixing my sink this morning). For three, it’s low signal. A lot of these posts are wandering, scattered, and I write more than most people would like to read. I don’t have an answer to that. I know this helps me, so I plan to keep going.
Comments and thoughts appreciated. My main venues I watch are @richlitt and richard@burntfen.com.