I started blogging in February 2000 (it was social like Twitter back then). 5 years ago, I ramped up my writing again: I've been posted at least weekly for 256 weeks.
I've learnt that blogging is a necessary part of my practice for finding and exploring new ideas. It's brought me work and friends. And there's especially a place for blogging today: no platform will value your words like you will yourself.
having 25 years of body of work is incredibly inspiring. i have been blogging irregularly since... 2004? but sadly some is lost to time before like 2009 or 2011. i definitely want to get back to it again more.
my absolute top tip would be to find your super low-friction way to capture ideas about what to write, wherever you are, the very second the idea occurs to you
idea capture is upstream of everything else. you can do drafting or editing a month later or a year later, when the mood comes
I wrote a Colophon recently about my blog tech stack. it includes a "Writing" section which touches on how I start with idea capture (and also the psychological blockers about doing everything else)
genmon|1 year ago
I've learnt that blogging is a necessary part of my practice for finding and exploring new ideas. It's brought me work and friends. And there's especially a place for blogging today: no platform will value your words like you will yourself.
ktallett|1 year ago
zombot|1 year ago
genmon|1 year ago
__justplaying|1 year ago
simonw|1 year ago
I restored some of my content from there a few years ago: https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/8/missing-content/
genmon|1 year ago
idea capture is upstream of everything else. you can do drafting or editing a month later or a year later, when the mood comes
I wrote a Colophon recently about my blog tech stack. it includes a "Writing" section which touches on how I start with idea capture (and also the psychological blockers about doing everything else)
https://interconnected.org/home/2024/10/28/colophon