Fresh Start for the Blog

Ok, I'm struggling to write at the moment.

I think I have too many topics hanging around in parallel, too many uncertainties.

Maybe I'm also putting too much pressure on myself with the blog now. Because I tell myself there are people reading, who subscribed to the newsletter, so every article should be perfect, really well documented, with a lot of depth.

I think I've somewhat forgotten the original meaning of the word blog. Blog comes from Web Log. A log is a logbook, a journal. It can be a simple note. It's potentially short, it's for yourself.

Ultimately, I have my to-do list, that's what I'm planning, the future, the famous TODO list. A blog is more like a DONE list, what's been accomplished, what's failed, sometimes more complex thoughts, but always as a summary of something.

So I'm thinking I'll probably go back to basics a bit. Try to write shorter pieces, document the present.
It's funny because I wanted to do "Build in public" to show the evolution of creating a product (hakanai.io) and a YouTube channel, and I actually talk about it quite little. This will be an opportunity.

To avoid spamming readers subscribed to the newsletter, I'll take this chance to switch it to weekly. Maybe I'll enrich it with my tech watch. We'll see. I'm writing this today and maybe in 3 weeks all my resolutions will have gotten lost in the limbo. But by writing it publicly, I'm forcing myself, somewhat, to put some discipline into this.

Anyway, there will still be in-depth articles from time to time, especially since I still need to finish the first e-book on impact in software development. But it will be interspersed with shorter, less structured pieces.

So, it's the start of a new cycle, almost a new season. A new season that coincides with returning from expatriation in Japan, readjusting to life in France; the concrete realization that now, I'm truly alone on my projects. That I've gone from a Tetris-style calendar to a... empty calendar. Or almost.
Perfect for starting from a blank slate.