I'm Busy and Don't Have Original Ideas

I had the idea for my last article a little bit ago and it wasn’t until a few weeks before I posted it that I realized how I wanted to present my argument. Since the naming scheme article’s inception, LTT has released at least one full-length video on deceptive naming and also talked about it on the WAN Show.

The idea wasn’t anything new. I just had my own viewpoint. In my opinion, LTT did a much better job of conveying what I felt than I ever could when it came to CPUs. They went into more technical depth of the problem across different companies and stressed the damage the practice does to the industry. While I don’t want to be thought of as a copycat, I decided to post the article anyways as what I had written was enough to be its own post. I remember deleting at least one post already in fear of being thought a plagiarizer.

I have a couple more articles in progress, and a good number of ideas in my backlog, but I can’t find the time or effort to write them. I just moved across the country 10 days ago, I’m a month into my new job, and I’m working on a much larger writing project that I am very passionate about and intend to finish in a timely manner. The reason why it took me so long to post the last article was because it was supposed to be much longer, exploring different stakeholders’ perspectives.

No doubt more of my unwritten ideas will become obsolete, my posts here will become even more infrequent, and it could be who knows how long before I write anything worth reading. Based on how many professionals’ blogs I’ve seen that haven’t received updates for years or even decades, I’m not going to beat myself up too much about it.

This site was created as a space for me to talk about the things I didn’t have anyone else to talk to about. I like to get lost in my head, but I can never tell if what I think while doing that is worthwhile until I can put it into words. In the beginning, I stressed myself out with arbitrary deadlines and criteria. Eventually I found what I got the most out of this space, which is writing what I care about, and stuck with it.

A lot of people start websites in college to showcase their portfolio in the hopes of getting a job. My stupid artistic integrity didn’t allow me to do this. I posted it on LinkedIn and shared a few articles to try and get some eyes on some of the pieces I was prouder of, but refused to put it on my application until I already had a full-time offer.

Regardless, my brain still works. I keep myself busy. Between work, my bigger project, watching TNG, and trying to volunteer. The one person reading this in 15 years can know that I was fairly content at one point before I went insane.