I’ve had a love/hate relationship with writing for a while now.

I’m a YouTuber (another love/hate relationship, to be fair) and believe strongly in the power of video content, but there’s just something about writing… I know that I need to be a better writer, that it’s an important skill and that I would benefit a lot from getting better at it. Everything from sales to marketing relies on a solid writing skill. Bloggers I respect wow me with their ability to write.

I even have goals that explicitly rely on writing, like writing a book!

Yet for ages now I’ve had a broken or nonexistent writing process. I’ve changed blogging platforms a hundred times, from Medium to Wordpress to Ghost to Substack, and every time I’ve found pros and cons to the platforms.

Then I realized that it might not be a platform problem… it might be a philosophy problem.

As a software developer, I’ve taken iterative approaches to all of the software I write. Nothing comes out perfect the first X times. I’ve also “component-ized” my code (especially in my forays in the frontend) and modularized my code, making small, reusable and digestible pieces out of otherwise messy codebases.

Yet when it comes to writing, I’ve done the opposite. The first iteration has to be perfect. It has to be a single mass of words that is released once and only once.

This isn’t really a great way to blog (for me) and I think notion is a great way to fix that.

Notion allows me to make a blog out of my notes, to create with very little friction and to focus more on creating and less on tweaking. This, I think, is key to me being able to write reliably: remove all friction and keep my blog where I have my notes, plans, schedules, etc.

This is going to be less of a blog and more of a place to store my notes, musings, rants and links. I think this will make it easier for me to write frequently, build the habit and put valuable things out into the world.