This is the first of many blogs to come, I am going to write here every day, as I like to write to think and not the other way around. Extreme word choice experimentation is an uncomfortable venture and speaking exclusively(as opposed to writing) for 19 years conditions you to take the shortest possible route when portraying concepts, at risk of making discussions eye-rollable, and your speech indigestible.
There are many things I could write about to start, but I will start with describing the first time I ever wrote a blog before this. Within my first month at my first office job I was already plotting on how I was going to run a company solo, while I was working full time. Nobody would know, I know how businesses work, I can read a balance sheet, therefore all I needed was an idea.
Within 2 hours of brainstorming I had the greatest idea that one could ask for. I rushed to my computer, immediately bought a domain name, tried to build a website, was wildly disheartened that I would need coding expertise to build a social media web company (who knew).
Within about 5 days I was knee deep in coding classes.
Within 1 month I was watching movies at work and picked up a high school habit of playing Xbox until everyone I knew had to go to sleep. Through the first week or so of trying to start the company I sent cold emails, created websites through Squarespace, created Linktrees and Tiktok accounts, looked at buying Facebook ads. My budget was 50$ a month. I started a blog for the business, released 3 posts in the first week saying that I would update those who had interest in the company, told a few friends and family and sent them the website link and asked them to share.
I had 9 total views on my website when the free trial ended, and I cannot blame a soul for not sharing that abomination of a rough draft. In some ways I am glad that it failed so quickly, especially because I was likely breaking multiple copyright laws, and I don’t want anyone to know my best, most passionate and only well executed idea could have been created by an AI model with a 140 character prompt.
A largely irrelevant story, but holding myself accountable to not let that happen again, a personal blog, a daily blog detailing whatever I am thinking about day by day, will be very helpful for me and someday people will be grateful that I started this before I did anything. Even if it is only to mock me, and I know someday soon I will look back at this blog post with fondness, and laugh thinking that the same person who wrote this blog wanted to work on a book and considered himself especially talented at marketing and capable of running a company.
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