The rumors of my demise
Jul 16, 2022
The main reason I’ve gone this long without writing is because I couldn’t bundle exec jekyll serve and test what the post would look like on my localhost
That kicked off a whole set of linked-but-separate frictions:
When I posted images or any sort of formatting, I would have to deploy and load it on the internet
That increased the time it took me to post
That made it less likely I would be able to fit a writing + posting session in in my day
Hence, no posts coming to the blog
My wife is gone for 2 weeks, on work training, and so 1 week into my home isolation, I finally ran out of things to distract myself with. That led to:
Spinning up a bunch of tabs
Reading more backlogged articles in Pocket for longer sustained duration
Revisiting more backlogged Drafts in Notion
Realizing that I hadn’t posted in a long time
Sitting down and googling “why can’t I
bundle exec jekyll serve”Updating ruby (and running into an error)
Installing rvm
Updating ruby take 2
Success!
Overall, I have two takeaways:
Unstructured Slack time can result in lots of Outcome
You need to give yourself more Slack time than you thought