The Audience of One

Hello. This is my new blog.

Due to an interesting combination of factors, I’ve mostly lost the old one that lived at Etin[dot]Space, hopefully I’ll be able to pull some of my best posts from the archive and put them here.

I’ve been meaning to build this blog for the better part of five years which is how long it has been since my last blog post. Ironically, that post was about consistency and showing up.

A lot has changed in the world and with myself between then and now, so I imagine that my writing will be quite different from what it used to be. I’m happy with that, because the primary audience of my writing has also changed in significant ways over that time.

On my old blog, I never went to the trouble of defining who I was writing for and as the author that led to problems defining how or what I should write. My blogs have always been an eclectic mix of very personal anecdotes, technical software engineering deep (I hope) dives and my taste in culture and art.

On this blog, that range of topics will remain, but I’m far more comfortable with it because the audience has only one person in it — me.

I’m writing these notes to myself to get things out of my mind and onto the canvas. To give myself some clarity of thought. To remind me of things I once knew but might again forget. You’re welcome to observe, but for the most part, the content might not cater to you.

I might still do things like send out a newsletter or post my articles on social media, but my audience, especially as I write, is myself. Hopefully, this clarity means I have less things sitting in the drafts or even worse, completely unwritten because I’m not sure how to frame it for a wider audience.

What kind of things might I write for myself, you wonder? Well, it’ll be mostly commentary on the things I encounter in my life across my many passions. Anything I consider noteworthy (and shareable on the public internet) will go in here.

Thanks for sitting through that. I write for myself and it’s freeing to be your own audience, but there’s something beautiful about being read by others.