Published: 2025-08-01
This is my personal blog.
I write a lot. Writing is an outlet that helps me organize my thoughts and refine my thinking about a given topic. Ultimately, my writing is a form of self-documentation - a way to preserve knowledge, explain subjects, capture plans and ideas, and create guides for my future self.
I recently moved all of my personal data from offline physical storage to online data storage, and stumbled upon a trove of old files I had written long ago, early in my career. I felt a sudden compulsion to explore my old archives and discovered that my collection of personal knowledge documents had grown to be quite large and diverse over time. As a whole, they appeared as a chaotic historical record of topics and ideas, written using different editors, varying formats, and inconsistent methods of organization and storage. A closer look, however, revealed a shared writing style and organizational method for documents from the same time period.
After some reflection, I realized three things. I was pleasantly surprised by how my writing style and organizational skills had evolved over time. I was also delighted to discover that much of this forgotten content was of value to my current self. However, my most sobering realization was that much of this information was currently buried and functionally hidden from me.
I wanted to revive and resurface a lot of this content. I wanted to figure out a documentation system that would avoid pitfalls I had encountered before. Documents needed to be convenient to create, easy to maintain, and readily available. When writing, I wanted to be able to focus on the content itself, not the formatting of the document, but I also wanted the presentation layer to be customizable so I could fiddle with it. I also wanted this system to fit within my current workflows, my current habits, so I would easily adopt it - many projects that attempt to revolutionize existing workflows fail because they introduce new processes based on idealized tasks that are never really adopted, instead of quietly integrating with and optimizing what’s already in place.
Thus, I bumped up the priority of a task on my perennial TODO list to figure this out and got to work.
This site is the result of that work.
While this site is a personal knowledge repository designed for my own use, I am curious to see how making it publicly available will influence its topics and my writing, and I hope you find something of value within it.