Notes, not a blog

I’ve never managed to get a blog going, but I take a ton of notes for myself. So this time I’m trying the mental hack of calling these posts “notes” and writing about the most mundane things that could still be interesting to another person. Reading about the little scripts and tools experienced developers use every day was useful to me when I was starting out. I’ll have to work my way up to what I really want to write about: politics, philosophy, software, and organizational dynamics.

Keeping notes short will let me work on my sentence-level writing — and excise my excess actuallys, verys, reallys, justs, sos, alsos, and it turns outs — without having to worry so much about structure. Short notes are similar to the format I spend the most time in professionally: GitHub comments. Even there we should aspire to poetry.