Why I Write
In 2023 I was changing a lot of small things at once: eating and sleeping better, moving my body again, and worrying less about what people on social media thought of me. Posting less was part of that. I still wanted a place to put thoughts down and show what I was working on. That was how this site began.
I am not a writer by profession. I spend most of my time working on businesses and construction projects. Writing catches things that I miss when I am talking. I start a paragraph sure of myself, and by the end I can see an assumption I had not questioned, or an opinion I had repeated without really thinking it through.
Once an idea is on the page, I can lay out its parts the way I would lay out materials on a job site before committing to a design. I can see what is missing or what does not fit. I find that much harder to do entirely in my head.
Writing an idea out makes it harder for me to ignore the gaps in it. Maintaining the site takes work, but reading back across months shows me how I change. That is enough reason to keep going.