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