Matt's Blog

an old school personal website

[
[
[

]
]
]

A Bear Blog side quest

,

For reasons that, in hindsight, are not entirely clear to me I recently found myself starting a new blog. I used a platform called Bear Blog, apparently a rising star in the indie web scene.

Now, Bear Blog itself is wonderful. I adore the platform. Maybe that’s a big part of the issue here. I have a history of chasing shiny new tech tools and platforms and inventing “good” (but totally unnecessary) uses for them.

I wrote a post on my new Bear Blog rationalizing its existence. I wrote about how I was pretty sure that the “complexity” of my existing tools, namely WordPress, was the reason I was not writing more consistently. A new simpler tool was surely the solution.

Then in my next Bear Blog post I wrote about how the “the answer is not out there, but within” and extolled the virtue of sticking with something and making it work, in all its imperfect glory.

I don’t claim to be consistent.

Finally, in the very next post, about imagining utopian futures, I wrote this:

I’ve learned that track record is a reliable predictor of future outcomes. But I haven’t entirely learned how to use that knowledge to combat the baked in allure of the imaginary future.

I’m clearly still learning. I imagined all these ways Bear Blog would be great. But the track record shows I write inconsistently regardless of tools or platforms. This latest side quest just added to the track record.

At this point it has finally become abundantly obvious that neither WordPress nor iA Writer nor any other tool is the blocker keeping me from writing more.

I am the blocker.

So in that way, at least, the Bear Blog experiment was helpful.

Now the question is, can I retain that lesson and take effective action to make change? In other words, can I just simply write more?

I’m going to just leave my Bear Blog posts where they are at last for now. Here are all the links:

Leave a comment