Write.

I missed putting a post up yesterday because I fell into the same trap I usually do: wanting to have something perfect, rather than putting up something nascent and half-formed. It’s my reputation, after all; don’t I want people to only see me at my best?

I mean… yes, I do, but it’s too easy to fall into the trap I did with the Last Week in AWS blog of wanting to polish everything until it’s perfectly defensible. Not every post needs to be a 5000 word monstrosity that’s unassailable by a vengeful $2.267T company. Sometimes it’s okay to just accept that the words aren’t flowing perfectly, and hit publish anyway.

“Well why don’t you just put your half-formed stuff into Claude and let GenAI finish it for you?” Because whoever reads this, even if it’s just me, wants to hear my thoughts on a topic, not a LLM’s version of it that bends it towards a common voice. That’s mediocrity, and I don’t want that to become acceptable to me.

Remember writing is like anything else. Sucking at it is the first step to being kinda good at it.