Principles of this blog
I started this blog mostly to participate more actively in the Bearblog community, but also as an experiment to see how well and how much I could write under certain conditions. Here are those rules I try to follow for this blog, in order of significance.
No technical content.
I aim to write about topics that a general audience is able to understand. If a post requires technical jargon, I will not write it. I have enough places on the internet where I can post technical articles and I don't need one more. I get to determine the boundaries of the grey areas, but this rule exist in an attempt to get myself writing more about things I usually don't feel comfortable writing about -- though that isn't to say it is too personal or trivial.
No external self-promotion.
When I started this blog, the only place someone can stumble upon it is the Recent feed on Bear. People are free to include my blog and blog posts in their blogrolls or their reply posts (thanks!) but as a rule, I will not be submitting this blog and its posts to directories, webrings, and "share your new blog post"-type threads. I don't mention this blog on my website, on my socials, or in conversations to anyone except for the sake of notification of reply posts.
How far can I go by relying only on the activity feed on Bear and the network effect of links?
No word limits.
On some of my other blogs, I try to self-impose a word count expectation for my blog posts to discourage posting about something I can't write much about. Here, there will be no limits. I post when I want to, whether that be a small, fleeting thought or a long-winded rant with many tangents. On this blog, the only content filter is my own judgement of privacy and my willingness to share.
Write for myself.
I write for myself just the same on my other blogs, but I end up trying to edit and perfect a draft too much and never get anything published. Here, I will write for my future self to read and reflect. I will write to articulate my thoughts and use the platform as an avenue for venting and rubber-ducking. That doesn't mean the content should be overly informal or riddled with errors -- quite the opposite -- I write to impress only my future self, I write in a way that I will want read.
Make of these what you will. They can give you a sense of what to expect should you choose to subscribe to my feed, or follow along to see how this experiment turns out. Only time will tell.