Full disclosure: I fell behind on blog posts and just speed-wrote the last 6 posts.
How does that make you feel? Were they worse than the prior ones? Better? About the same?
What would each of those mean about my writing here so far?
Obviously, nothing I've written here yet is striving for a Pulitzer, but I'd like to think part of the purpose of this exercise is to grow. However many days in; but am I getting better?
The blogs I most admire and wish to emulate are not rambling, introspective missives. They pick some specific technical topic or problem and they evaluate its countours and provide a promising insight or solution. They leave the reader better educated.
One of the keys to such writing is that it requires genuine work. I am not so superlative as to speed-write banger technical insights in one sitting from mind-stuff alone. I need to pick a topic, dive into it, build around it, research prior art, create some new angle or solution, and then write it up and share it. This is potentially many hours of work.
Obviously, I can piggyback off of work I do for my real work, and use that as fodder for the insights that I would write about here. There have already been some intances of that in this blog. I've found tidbits from my work that are worth noting externally. And I'm getting better at recognizing those tidbits.
So, that's the fastest win here. Continue thinking about my day job as a source of blog post topics. Give my work tasks that extra ounce of effort to drive my findings from functional within the business goals and constraints to something of sufficient confidence and depth that I can comfortably espouse it here.