I thought about starting a newsletter in the past with failed attempts. I like the idea of sharing stuff with the world but I either constrained myself to write more technical blogposts, which I don’t write them often, or I try to create a system around it to justify the need for writing and posting something to the Internet.
I now realize that most of the thought process is borderline ridiculous. Kudos to me, I guess.
Writing something like newsletter also means some form of distribution. But I don’t have a plan. I am not sure what to write here, so that became another blocker for me.
My drive is not the visibility, it is to share with the world. Because I believe as I do more of these things, my writing process and thinking process will become clear. That is the general Idea and bet I want to pursue.
I remember seeing macwright.com’s blog 2 or 3 years ago. He tags them these kings of things as Recently and just writes whatever he is thinking and focusing at the moment. I feel like creating a space like that, your special corner in the internet is a very cool endeavour.
So here are the rules:
- I plan to keep one file like this open in Obsidian. Custom plugin I recently added allowed me to focus on just writing about stuff and posting to my website with ease. Once I decide it has enough content to publish, I publish and get the next one ready.
- There is no topic restriction. I write about whatever, could be technical or not. More technical stuff can evolve into its own blogpost, which is what I want in the long run.
- No LLM assistance. English is not my native language so building a style for me is also an alternative long term goal. I want to get good by doing good old fashioned 10 thousand hour practise for this.
- Of course I will edit the stuff and want to improve the typo and grammar. But no LLM intervention will change what I write. I might give it at the end and review it for me to create pointers I could use in the next one.
What happens If I don’t continue this series? Well, at least I will be sure that this is not something very important to me right now, so I can relax and focus on other things.
That won’t mean that I will stop writing here. But committing to somewhat regular writing schedule is hard. And a pretty new thing for me. So failing to do that is not a actual failure. It is just a signal. I don’t want this thought of writing to linger in my mind any longer.