Category: Creator Confidential
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The asymptotic queue
I write every day at this blog. It’s a rule that I respond very well to. Some people who write every day queue up many posts ahead of time, so something goes live every day. I imagine some people are 60 or even 100 days ahead. That means a post they write today will go…
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Finding an answer to a question nobody else could answer
There have been many moments when I could have stopped writing at this blog every day. For example, this year alone, I might’ve been several days behind on posts. I was determined not to fall behind during my trip to Asia, and I didn’t, but then I fell behind upon returning to Canada. What can…
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The point of writing every day isn’t to write every day
Since 2007, every year, Tony Stubblebine publishes an article on things he feels grateful for. Except, sometimes, he’s late. A couple of days ago, he published the one for 2024—the year before this one. As I dove into his archives, I noticed he’d aggregated some years—one article might contain three or four years’ worth of…
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Two articles I wrote very early in my career
A couple of years ago, I wrote about my gig writing for Techvibes while I was an undergrad university student. I was a self-taught writer, and these posts are part of my very early work. Techvibes was acquired in 2016, and most of the articles were stripped of author credentials. Some of them have all…