Jan 25, 2018
A Table of Contents
So many roads
Book 1: Explorations
August 2016 — July 2017
Book 2: Essays
August 2017 — August 2018
Book 3: Entrepreneurship
August 2018 — June 2019
Book 4: Everything
September 2019 — July 2020
Book 5: Etcetera
August 2020 — August 2021
Book 6: Endurance
September 2021 — …
Introduction
It’s been a fun trip writing in this medium. Having ventured down so many roads over the last year or two, it seemed appropriate to consolidate these writings into a sort of table of contents for ease of browsing. Collected here are all of my posts in chronological order. Although they could certainly be read in the order presented if one was so inclined, I would offer that the writing probably improved over the course of the journey — this was my first real venture into the written word outside of 140 character increments (other than a few stray blog posts on an internal board with my last employer). I started with the intent to explore, and although no single consistent theme was ever settled on, if you dig a little you might find some recurring. It was no normal circumstances that led to this expedition, but I’ll leave that to the essays if you’re interested.
I’ll offer as a bit of explanation that it sometimes feels like I have a kind of speech impediment, one that may not be obvious but often coalesces in a kind of density of meaning for lack of a better description — many of the echos and patterns that can be found in these posts aren’t literary devices, they’re just how I think. This sometimes make plain speech or small talk challenging, but I get by. It’s kind of ironic that much of my career path has fallen into the sales umbrella, a rut I’ve only recently succeeded in escaping.
If you ever get a chance to dig into the essays of Paul Graham, you’ll find that he describes a writing process of getting a first draft out as quickly as he can but then spending weeks if not months editing and revising, soliciting comments, and only then finally settling on a polished form. Let’s just say that I took a different approach. The average time from a post’s conception to completion here was 2–3 days, and nothing took more than a week to finalize. As a result I think there is a certain energy carried through that might be lost otherwise, at a minimum it certainly leaves an impression of state of mind. (To be clear some of the more sophisticated topics were preceded by months if not years of study, but once I got going the writing part was pretty quick.) One thing I discovered about blogging is that every time you finish a post, every single time, it feels like this must be the final one — because you have no idea what else you could possibly write about :).
I apologize for the attempts at poetry, yes I agree those are pretty laughable.
I’m grateful to Medium for providing such a polished platform with a forgiving learning curve. I really do hope they succeed.
Book One: Explorations
August 2016
September 2016
October 2016
November 2016
December 2016
January 2017
February 2017
March 2017
April 2017
July 2017
Book Two: Essays
August 2017
October 2017
November 2017
February 2018
March 2018
May 2018
June 2018
July 2018
August 2018
Book Three: Entrepreneurship
September 2018
October 2018
November 2018
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
Book Four: Everything
September 2019
October 2019
November 2019
December 2019
January 2020
February 2020
March 2020
April 2020
May 2020
June 2020
July 2020
October 2020
November 2020
December 2020
February 2021
March 2021
April 2021
June 2021
July 2021
August 2021
October 2021
November 2021
January 2022
February 2022
March 2022
April 2022
May 2022
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