Bemused ramblings some dude says on the internet
This is my fifth article I’ve begun work on today alone. I have no limit on ideas for topics, I have a limit on time I can allocate to writing. That being said, the more ideas you have to write about, the easier it can be to find your groove to write. Ideas are a dime a dozen, so you can afford to have more than you need and throw out whatever doesn’t stick.… Read the rest
Content is king may be the most abused cliché in marketing, but it isn’t backing down from asserting itself over reality. The truth is, if you want to make money off of content, you can either create content which appeals to everyone and manages to obtain great word of mouth and manages to just touch every heart everywhere, or you need to make a lot of content which makes a few people (comparatively) happy at a time.… Read the rest
The cliché that practice makes perfect has slowly permeated almost every level of the zeitgeist. It’s a bit of a romantic notion to imagine that as long as you work hard at improving you’ll always improve. The principle behind the notion itself isn’t wrong, but it has some serious caveats which tend to be omitted. You may only be able to get better by doing, but you have to make sure what you’re doing actually teaches you something or you’re just treading water.… Read the rest
Unit testing is an approach to software development which shifts from testing the entity as a whole to testing each unit of code at every level until you end up testing the whole. Small issues don’t snowball into larger issues if you catch them early. Less has to be reworked at each level of abstraction when tested correctly. You trade a little bit of speed in the development cycle in exchange for a much smoother, more predictable process.… Read the rest
It’s easy to find yourself left without enough time in the night to sit down and read for a bit, especially if you write. You have to hunt for topics, and research them. Then, for what actually works you have to sit down and actually write, edit, and create or find other media. Each of these steps can take a significant amount of time which eats into your time to do anything else.… Read the rest
I started a side project dedicated to reviewing books of a specific genre. I won’t go into detail as to exactly what it is as it’s fundamentally incompatible with this blog’s brand and image. Suffice it to say, it has been an exciting experiment and a monumental change to what I’m used to doing.
While this new project probably isn’t going to be my life’s work, it has allowed me to explore a side of my writing which I never had before.… Read the rest