Weeknotes #390 — Garbage can

I’ve been thinking more about these weeknotes, pondering whether it’s time to explore a different format. Six years ago, I made a note that I was inspired by Ton Zijlstra’s format, and it’s served me well. But I’ve stopped looking forward to documenting my week as much as I used to. Part of my reluctance to change is that I feel like I have less time than I did before, and that writing more freely will take more of it. Somehow — and I don’t know how — I used to sit down to write, edit and publish on a Sunday night, whereas my routine is now to try and write on my commutes at the start of the following week. Sometimes I don’t finish things off until Thursday. I want to keep up the practice as I enjoy writing; a weeknotes routine forces the discipline of putting sentences together and exercising the writing muscles, and I suspect that my writing is better elsewhere because of it. I look back on my old weeknotes regularly, and know that some friends and family read them. But maybe the…