Writing

• https://analogenie.com/

• had a draft about writing despite of generative AI but discarded it cause of it being stale enought that it didn't ignite any further excitement.
• on that note, wondering about the nature of excitement and novelty, taking it beyond the idea of pushing out an Essay.
• what exactly is the reward that I get from writing?
• I haven't exactly monetized the efforts that I put in here and these only result in documentation of my thoughts at a moment in time.
• why do I choose to publish is another quesion that I haven't particularly answered well.
• for all the personal benefits, I could have just continued writing in my personal repositories but choosing to publish makes it different.
• I do not completely understand my incentives for the type of content I write doesn't tangibly benefit those who read it.
• They mostly are apparent reinterpretations of what I observe around me.
• my experiences aren't that different that they haven't been experienced by better expressers than me before.
• I still grasp the value of writing and publishing, even though I cannot point to what exactly leads to it.

• what makes a good writing pattern, template?
• what really intrigues readers and how to manage their attention and interest over the course of the read?
• different ways to capture and retain attention
• what does it take to really impress and inspire someone with the written word?
• what different kinds of audience that read my work and with what intentions?
• ones that are just out there to know random logs rare

• blogged about my 0x2222th day yesterday
• the writing style was quite casual and turned out to be refreshingly unique
• could pump out geniune content without much thought within minutes
• a little more deliberate practice and I should be able to find my true writing flow and generic style

• today I wondered what would timeless writing look like?
• an example would be the theory of evolution by darwin in 1844
• the question was inspired by : https://paulgraham.com/best.html

• wish to dive deeper into abstract poetry for the intellectual mind.
• epistemological poetry seems to be a very esoteric pass time - right up my alley
  • continuing exploration in a separate node : Poetry

• just cleaned off the prompt cache ; feel like I'm mentally stuck in a mental space that isn't quite interesting ; feel like I need to build a new space for myself.
• I need to move on when it comes to my style of writing.
• I've always wrestled with the idea being simple and writing a little too differently than how I think.
  • the tendency to completely understand anything before I move does have its pros and cons
• getting good with black boxes seems to be a very healthy way to maintain your sanity.
  • I envy those with the inclination to keep things short and complete only to the extent of the requirements.
• forcing a writing flow right now for an hour with some music and the background and seeing what I come up with

Also starting out writing on medium : will be adapting all blogs to medium to help bring in traffic to the root site.

• read some blogs on medium and finding some styles to be easy to be able to follow.
• writing longer sentences doesn't help with comprehension and leads to constriction of the flow of ideas for the reader.
• writing monotonically crafted sentences also isn't helpful for engagement
• instead, should try a periodic strategy that helps build up the article programmatically.
• varying sentence length, complexity and specificity over a paragraph moving from generic to specific to build up on the previous layer is something that I'll be trying out in the coming blogs.
• should keep the paragraphs shorter, use more subheadings and break down the flow of the blog into several sections that allows for skimming as well.
  • I personally miss on these in long worded blogs and do not like to read paragraph after paragraph without an explicit indication of what I'm looking at currently.
• when it comes to planning an article, there are a few repeating factors that one should take into account.
  • Simplifying extensively, there's the characteristics of the content itself, then there're the characteristics of the reader and finally the interaction of these characteristics over time and how engagement grows. Lastly, these may broken down into implicit factors like the content being a realization of the characteristics of the author.
  • All writing and content creation recommendations play on variations in these factors and any specific suggestions may be boiled down to how these can be varied to achieve certain objectives.
  • This can be summarized as a game of incentives : the content captures the incentive of the author and may be consumed by the consumer if the incentives align well.
• This deserves to be a subject of it's own and has been further documented in the node of Content Theory

• I'm considering being more concise
• Being verbose is a style that I exhibit naturally but I have noticed that my words are the most impactful when I'm concise and only type after considerable thought.
• both have their times of prominence but I don't think I practice the former enough due to the skewed nature of the effort I put in this dump versus the original blog.

• I thought I'd reached 0x2200, but I forgot stuff is in hex here.
• have been able to bring a healthy level of monotony in my routines (read smooth highways without speed bumps and ditches)
• writing in Emacs and coding in Neovim so that's working pretty well.
• forcing a routine on writing henceforth: not just something I do according to my whims but something that is a disciplined endeavour henceforth.

• on a post shower, night walk with music, was able to brain storm several core bloggable prompts
• hadn't been able to do so in a long time and definitely felt satisfied by the end of it
• I was missing my small paper notes and realized that I've got to get used to the phone and get over my peeve against complex instruments for writing.
• will still be using the work in progress subnode here to capture these prompts in batches

• reading a book on prompt engineering to actively improve my content creation process - had a pretty productive chat as follows : https://chat.openai.com/share/6896002b-08bc-4e85-af48-82bbffc4f5cd

• elaborating on the book that I mentioned yesterday, found this interesting strategy on writing a book
  • to publish it in atomic parts with each fundamental idea being a blog post.
  • this way I get intermittent feedback instead of a final review and don't have to deal with the stress of not producing any output.
  • over time, as my style develops, I could even reiterate over old blogs and compile them into the book, refactored and freshened up a little.
• inspiration : derek sivers and seth godin

• writing a book -> The Definitive Guide to Books
• should be a good experience when starting out
• there has to be a first someday
• will be completing it in this dump itself and plan on finding out what it takes to actually write a book
• estimated it to take around 90 hours of work.

• setting up a new content creation pipeline video and blog that covers how I note ideas from end to end.
  • the tool-agnostic part is already covered in 0x2118 below.
  • Will be quickly highlighting the tooling and the technical process in a video and then blog about references and links.
• practical aspects :
  • begin with the buffer
    • contains all my notes
      • for writing
      • what I study
      • for youtube
    • daily increments
      • input and output queue.
  • main blog
    • hugo
    • write in markdown
    • publish with github pages
  • youtube
    • the normal process
      • youtube and blog go hand in hand

• writing-patterns
• initializing a new node to observe my writing style and its short-comings/opportunities to improve on.
• would just be a collection of high level patterns that I tend to over-use/rely on unnecessarily and could use some explicit auditing.

I'm thinking of developing a personalized writing system that will allow me to be disciplined, elevating myself from the stature of a hobbyist. For definite practice, I'm thinking of deciding on a topic at the start of a week, reading up and collating my notes until Saturday and posting the formal article on Sunday. My goal with this pursuit is to improve my command over the language and develop an original way with word. All communication boils down to being able to express yourself accurately without erroneous comprehension for the audience. That is a skill worth mastering.