03 january 2024
I got an email today from Medium saying that "You've got a story, now's the time to write it." and "There's arguably no better habit than writing. Do it every day and you'll grow as a thinker, communicator, and human being."
I agree with you, Medium. What I disagree with you about is where to do it. I don't want to write on Medium, have my thoughts owned and monetized by Medium. I want to write here, on tilde, where it's not as serious an endeavor, and where I can post without any sort of subscription or tracking or other crap that most blogging platforms inflict upon you.
I want to write more. I feel like I've got things to say, and maybe they are worth listening to, but a lot of it falls in the category of "feels".
I want to tinker more. I want to putter around more. I did that a lot during my time off from work, and it was not just really nice, it helped me to parse and think about how I'm doing and my relationship/understanding of the world. I need to figure out how to do more of that in days that I have at work, and maybe even do some of that during work.
I want to be more gentle to myself. If I don't get a lot of writing and tinkering done this year, I'm not going to beat myself up over it. I'm sick of things that are regretful, I'm sick of hard resolutions where "I'm going to do this thing, and if I don't, I will feel really bad."