Why I’m refactoring my Medium

Writing vibrant and alterating for the better…

In programming we talk about refactoring code making it easier to maintain by continuously cleaning up and organizing sections, creating a seamless workflow in the process as we go.

This is important because we have the chance of understanding our own creations by setting a distance away from the whole picture instead of being blinded by tunnel vision searching into one specific detail.

This text isn’t going to be about programming but what if we could transfer this mindset into other work we do and further support our viewpoints?

I didn’t know how to start sharing my ideas here on medium. So I just went ahead and did it. Normally I would have planned it meticulously so that everything would tie together in a perfect little knot. But that only gave me nothing. I ended up having collected a bunch of ideas on my phone waiting for some epiphany magically appear in front of me. Guess what happened?

My phone stopped working one day, drop dead and stupid as I am I had never backed anything of it up. Sure I could get it repaired and hope for the best…

Eventually the phone started to work again just as quickly as it went down and all of my notes on poems, song lyrics, product ideas and everything else I thought I’d might never see again were thankfully still intact. But of course this led me thinking that maybe I should actually start doing at least something with this. While not ready to go a hundred percents on my writing just yet, I came up with a rather unorthodox approach, enter the refactoring.

• Maybe I don’t have the perfect picture for my post yet?
• Maybe I’ll grab one now that is close to what I’m going for until I get the chance capturing the image myself and simply edit the post later?
• What if I’m able putting better words into something I’ve already covered before? Should I write another post or simply just edit something so that it’s enabling my point of view getting through the noise better?

By doing the latter I’m actually able doing my refinement in solitude then building upon an already set foundation when I have all of the pieces laid out in front of me instead of individual pieces of a large puzzle with no idea on how to even begin in the first place.

This doesn’t imply I’m sloppy nevertheless unorganized. It means I have spent too much time waiting for an idea to take it’s shape and not giving it a push in the right direction. When it’s just as easy to hit the Edit-button and clarify what previously might have been left unanswered.

I do care about what I write, maybe even too much sometimes. As much as not being able writing anything at all stuck in the hamster wheel of procrastination.

At first I didn’t know what to begin writing about so instead of planning ahead I eventually decided…

I’ll start writing and see what happens and now I’m writing about why I write the way I do.