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Thinking of adding a sort of #microblog element to my personal site (bcavello.com) because I am finding it intimidating to add new posts because I want to keep my posts section with a level of deep premeditation and polish. But I also have ideas that I often sit on FOR YEARS and it’s frustrating to not have written them down or shared them.

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it's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 4

Things on my writing #ToDoList that have been for multiple years:
- #Levers vs #Microscopes, and different types of technologies that augment #labor
- Work worth NOT doing, and frameworks for determining whether other people’s buy-in and #consent should be needed for a person to do something (have #agency)
- There are #RebelsInTheDeathStar (this has probably been 10 years on the to-do list 🫠)
- It isn’t dead, yet, but #PrivacyIsInHospice
- The #FunEconomy, and new modes of measuring progress

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it's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 4

I think I want to give myself a space to explore an idea or capture something I’m thinking about, even if it’s not “finished,” and differentiate that from the stuff I feel proud to have put effort into communicating clearly. I feel like I DO want to keep a zone for things that are like my guides on #HowTo get into #AIPolicy, for instance, (https://posts.bcavello.com/how-to-get-into-ai-policy-part-1/) and I don’t want to bury that kinda thing with a million short snippets… but maybe separating is unnecessary?
What do you think?

How to get into AI policy (part 1)

B Cavello

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Aaron Williamson Feb 4

@b_cavello are you open to suggestions?

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it's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 4

@copiesofcopies Please! I’d welcome advice both from a user experience/reader perspective as well as different tools and approaches.
I’m currently using #Publii for CMS on the regular blog side of things, and I’d mostly imagined just doing more of that, but welcome ideas.
Also if you have thoughts on the “just getting yourself to do it” front, that’s also something I’d be delighted to hear from others on!

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Aaron Williamson Feb 4

@b_cavello it’s more of the latter 🙂 it really seems like you’re letting perfect be the enemy of good (which I do a lot of). Thoughts: (1) it will probably not bother anyone else to see the different kinds of posts intermixed: (2) it will probably not bug you much in practice; (3) you may be able to tag/categorize them so the “posts” link only takes you to the long form posts; (4) if you don’t like it, you can always pull those posts out after you do the reorg.

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it's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 4

@copiesofcopies That’s a good point! It’s not permanent

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Swift (will be at EMF)Feb 4

@b_cavello @copiesofcopies small counterpoint to 1: I *much* prefer being able to easily navigate polished, refined content vs off-the-cuff stuff (though appreciate both!)

But yeah, categorization is also a solution that can work, and as long as you have an easy way or distinguishing internally, nothing is permanent! (and Getting Started Now is absolutely valuable)

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