I recently came across this post by Axxuy referencing me and my workflow titled "I Don't Blog Every Day." They wrote that the practice of blogging every day "quickly felt like a chore. It felt exhausting." If writing like this felt like a chore to me, I certainly wouldn't be doing it. I am an incredibly lazy loaf! For me, there is a precise, never-ending compulsion. An itch. Maybe a supernatural drive? I write to think, to learn, to process, but mostly to empty my ballooning head. And I will say right now that, while I do think it is a good and healthy habit to write privately each day, it is plainly unwise to post and blog each day! Writing is my job, but it would be wise to space my posts out. This isn't shortform video content—I post at a rate that causes my work to autocannibalize itself from a metrics and marketing point-of-view, and I'm sure a lot of first-time readers would already find my backlog overbearing. If I were to post every other day, my metrics would probably…
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