I'm publishing something every day in Q2

I’m going to be publishing something every day in Q2.

I made this decision about 48 hours ago and I’m writing this half-way through Day 1. I don’t know whether I’m including weekends or not. There are lots of unanswered questions.

I’ve been writing a lot more this year, particularly on LinkedIn, and across two newsletters. The momentum has been building.

Several things happened recently:

• I read a book on grief and thought on “the parts of myself that have not known acceptance.” This made me realise how many of my interests I still keep quiet about.
• I watched a few Tyler Cowen interviews and was moved by his uninhibited geekiness (and his own daily publishing on Marginal Revolution).
• I spent too much time on LinkedIn, which is many ways the antithesis of everything I hold dear.

Tyler mentioned in one interview that Substack often becomes too personal and full of emotion. It encourages longer-format, original reflections and discourages people from being editors of other peoples ideas. I bristled at first, but it brought me back to the original model of blogging: writing whatever you want on your own quirky website. I did this for years as a teenager and I loved it. Here I am again.

So I’ll be publishing something every day this quarter. I feel inundated with ideas and I’ve had so many of them languish under writing roadmaps and prolonged editing. I also want to push the boundaries of “what I write about” to essentially include anything that goes into my daily notes in Obsidian. That feels terrifying right now, but I’m excited to push the boundaries.

The guiding principle of these daily posts will be what’s interesting to me. Later this week I’ll explain why “what’s interesting” is more powerful filter than we realise.

You can subscribe via RSS if that’s still a thing you do. Or I’ll summarise the best bits each week on my Substack. Code & Compass will also continue to go out weekly, focused on practical advice for nerds and builders.

See you tomorrow.