Writer's block

When I started this iteration of my blog, more than a decade ago, my idea was to improve my writing by setting up a publishing cadence, starting at two posts per week, with both technical and non-technical content. It would have also helped me build a legitimacy in my fieldn which is never a bad thing.

I failed.

I failed because I was too obsessed with the quality, writing style and overall too perfectionist. It led to a lot more posts in draft status than published¹.

From a technical point of view, this blog is almost up-to-date on all dependencies and libraries. Why ? I took, and still do, each opportunity to dive deep in technical stuff instead of writing. I've event gone lengths to try a fully new distro…

I am not writing for a living, luckily, but this is a skill I need to improve. My company praises writing above everything else² and it is becoming mandatory for me to become a good writer as I'm looking to advance in my career here.

As writing is a skill, I need to train. This blog will, once again and for good hopefully, become a playground. Code, half-baked content, rants & so on. "Release early, release often" is a motto I gave to all my mentees; it's time to apply it to myself.

Edit: During the writing of this article, I had three times where I was digressing. It took a conscious decision to go back to writing.