The Tired Weasel

a bit about writing less

For all of 2023 and 2024, I was able to write a new post every week and share it with the tens of thousands of subscribers here. I used to write a lot, took a break for several years, but came back with a nice rhythm. Ideas would come, words would flow (mostly), and I’d hit “publish” with a sense of momentum. But lately, that rhythm has been harder to find.

Ideas

It’s not that I don’t have thoughts worth sharing. If anything, my mind feels full - but perhaps too full. I’ve started and discarded dozens of articles over the past several weeks. Sometimes it’s because I don’t know where to start, but more often, I don’t know where to go. A lot of times though, it’s just been difficult to clear my mind of all of the other bullshit so I can focus about writing about software or leadership.

I joked in a note about a series of anti-leadership lessons learned from the Trump administration, but the whole state of American politics is so absurd, I don’t quite yet know how to reign that in.

Seasons

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