New blog, who dis?

I’ve been lucky to work for a few companies that had strong cultures of writing. In my time at Atlassian (more than a decade ago) it seemed like the inverse of most companies. You could have all the meetings and conversations you wanted - but what really made things happen was turning those into a written down plan, shared with a thoughtful blog post.

I like to think I helped bring this mode to Trineo and its various iterations after. It helped that there were people top to bottom there who agreed that writing is the best tool to think clearly.

As of a few weeks ago, and for the first time in forever, I’m taking some extended time off work. Amongst other things, this means I don’t have an internal or external company blog to write on. Truth be told I wasn’t doing much of it in the last little while anyway. I hope to do more here and now.

No schedule. No fixed topics. Just notes about whatever I’m tinkering with, learning about or doing during this break. An old school personal blog. I do have ideas for more specific topics I could write about exclusively, and maybe that will happen elsewhere at some point, but for now it’s just a place for anything random that I want to write down as a way to think more clearly about - and hone the way you only do if there is some vague chance someone else will read it.

If you want to follow along, I encourage you to grab a copy of Reeder and add the RSS feed. RSS is back baby! 🤔 I should write a blog just about this.

For those interested in how this site works … I had a few different approaches in mind. I wanted something really simple - procrastination proof and side-quest resilient … and found Quotion (this is an affiliate link that will make me rich). It’s fantastic. You just share a folder in Apple Notes, and any note inside becomes a blog post. If you already use Notes, like me, you’ll love it.