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-title: >-
-    New Year's Resolution Vibe Check
-description: >-
-    The not-quite-halfway progress report.
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-
-It's been over five months since I started my New Year's resolution, where I
-committed to writing 52 blog posts by the end of the year. This week I'm on the
-first vacation I've been able to take since the pandemic started, and, for lack
-of anything else to really write about, am doing an almost-halfway checkup on
-the whole process.
-
-Almost immediately into the process I wished I'd set my sights a bit lower. One
-post a week is a pretty intense pace, it turns out. If I were to reset the
-parameters of the resolution I would probably halve the requirements, down to
-26 posts in the year. One concern would be that I would be more likely to forget
-to do the bi-weekly post, whereas with the current system it's coupled with my
-normal work rhythm and so stays more top of mind. But I think I'd have a much
-easier time (perhaps even twice as easy!), so it might balance out.
-
-My thought in the beginning was that I could write on Friday afternoons or
-Monday mornings as a bookend to working, but what's generally happened is that I
-write on weekends. During the week the energy to write something up just isn't
-there; writing posts is a kind of work all on its own, and I can only bring
-myself to do so much work everyday.
-
-Lately it's been particularly difficult to pump out the posts. Obviously a large
-component of this is that I quickly picked all the low hanging fruit that were
-on my mind when I started this resolution, but an unexpected culprit has also
-appeared: seasons. When I started the resolution it was still winter, and during
-the cold months it's a lot easier to stay inside and work on a computer. As the
-weather warms it's been harder to find time though, in between working on the
-garden and going out and doing things with friends.
-
-Figuring out what to write about is becoming more of a challenge as well
-(obviously, given the topic of this post). Ideally I'd like to post about things
-I'm _doing_, rather than just talking about some topic, and for the most part
-I've mostly kept to that. Constantly posting about ideas I have or opinions I
-hold isn't really contributing any real work, unless the ideas or opinions are
-really groundbreaking (they're not). If, on the other hand, I use the posts as a
-kind of background motivation to get up and do something useful, so I can write
-about what I did, then at least progress has been made on _something_.
-
-The catch there is that I've now added an additional "thing" to do every week,
-in addition to the weekly post, and, as previously covered, I just don't have
-the time and energy for that. So some posts (ahem) are pretty much fluff, and I
-barely have the energy for those! Yet another reason to wish I'd committed to 26
-in the year, I suppose.
-
-It hasn't been all added stress and strife though. Doing the posts _has_ caused
-me to work on side projects more, and even better quite a few people I know have
-given me really good feedback on what I've been doing, and some have even
-started getting involved. So, in the sense of being a way to inform others about
-the things I'm working on, the posts are a great success! And I've definitely
-been more consistent about working on side projects this year.
-
-I'll wrap this up and continue with my vacation. Summary: blog is more extra
-work than expected, it's maybe worth it, but it would be more worth it if I
-halved my pace. I'm not _going_ to halve my pace, because that's not how
-resolutions work. The end.
-