While this serves as an introduction to any reader on what this blog is meant to be, it's also me setting expectations with myself about what goes on. As an excuse to put it online, I'm thinking maybe people can realize how a blog and start very simply.

Now, Maybe Forever

Ostensibly, this is a record of what I'm doing with my life. I have a good amount of projects that I want to push myself to finish and i think I can give myself incentive to follow up on them if I have a space to talk about them. I really do want to talk about the things that I'm doing, hopefully you really do want to listen.

This is also somewhat of a passion project in itself. I've wanted to try long-form journals for a while now and I've never really been able to commit to it. I know it sounds obvious but if you want to be able to do something consistently you should make them easy to do. So right now I'm not really imposing any rules about what these entries are supposed to look like.

I want to work on LaTeX more so before uploading any of this to Substack or my site I'll be writing this on LaTeX, which does give me some rules that I guess I am imposing? Maybe I can better the writing process about this. I've actually given myself a limit of four A4 pages of article class default. I have a feeling I'm not gonna get anywhere close to that at any time soon but it's important for me to have that rule laid out at the start. If you wanna know, I haven't even reached 3 pages for this post or the last one.

At Some Point

I'm hoping I can evolve a blog like this into something a person might enjoy having discovered. I do want it to be full of interesting stuff, and I do believe the things that the things that I'm passionate about are pretty interesting.

I'm honestly torn right now as to whether or not I want this to be a way people discover me and reach out to me. I don't really want to be known as a guy with a blog I just want to be known for myself and the blog to be secondary. But the internet is pretty vast, and I am telling myself that this is going to be the way I let myself be online. A bunch of the things I like (especially things related to card games and video games) are predicated on having people to interact with and so I would like to have more people to bounce ideas off of but I'm not so sure if I want it to come from this site already. I know that I don't want to measure my success by how many people see these posts.

What I do know is that I want to sink enough time in this to be able to tell myself that I feel proud of having this blog up. A website is a big thing, after all.