I have been writing for decades. Not always publishing, but writing. These past years, I wrote a lot without putting anything out, and I was missing it badly.
So I went back to basics.
My own blog, on my own server, like I did in 2004 or 2005. I do not even remember exactly when.
This time, I do not expect to be read. SEO for a personal blog is probably dead unless you are high profile with high authority on something. AI search is taking over, and the rules are changing in ways nobody fully understands yet. But that is fine.
I am not trying to rank. I am trying to write.
I call this blog my field notes because my current context is all over the place. On one side, industrial hardware for offroading vehicles, as brick-and-mortar as it gets. On the other, building a Florida COA management platform packed with AI agents and cutting-edge automation. These worlds do not overlap much, except in my head.
And anyway, what I learn in the trenches has to live somewhere.
Why publish at all if I am writing for myself? Because making it public forces me to write as correctly as possible. The discipline of knowing someone could read it changes how I write, even when nobody does.
First blog posts usually end with "stay tuned, great content coming soon." Nobody ever cares.
This time, nobody cares either. Not even me.