Summer ’22, Day 0

I’m feeling burned out on my usual routine of making and posting stuff. I’ve been doing the same things for a long time (417 posts) and I want to try something a little different. Here’s the experiment: spend this summer posting low effort, boring things. The idea is that it’s a low-key way to continue posting daily without the usual weight. I want to create space for other things to emerge and offset my usual learn-make-repeat cycle.

I obsess over making these posts good and I think it partially stems from this: I don’t want to be an impostor. I don’t want to one day say, “I ran a daily blog for a really long time” and then have someone be like, “3 sentences doesn’t count as a blog post!” I didn’t know how to put that feeling into words until I found a video, 30 Circle Test by Lazy Devs. It’s about game development, but it also applies to blogging: running a daily blog is impossible, unless you have some sort of hack which makes it possible. Maybe it’s writing posts ahead of time, photo only posts, or writing really short posts. Mine is writing really short posts, so why not embrace the enabler?

Usually, I tend towards one of three states: creative-making-stuff-feeling-great, not-sure-what-to-make, and meh-I-have-nothing-to-say-so-tired. I always push myself toward the first state and I need to learn to be okay with the latter two. As part of that process, this summer I want to post about something I’m thankful for, something I’m enjoying, a random thought, or something real. The shorter and boring-er, the better. Who knows what will happen?

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