A nice perk of starting my full-time position in January is that I have 3 uniterrupted months “off.” I say “off” instead of off because I am not truly without academic responsibility. For example, I participated in a CCC workshop on finding “grand challenges” in Sociotechnical Cybersecurity and am shepherding the writing of one of the four […]
Category: Blogging
Live Success Spiral Walkthrough Conclusion & Recap
[1] A success spiral is an immediately usable, powerful tool that can help you overcome inertia and make effortless progress towards living your ideals (e.g., exercising regularly, playing an instrument). The concept is simple: start small — so small, in fact, that it is effectively impossible to fail — and gradually build on your initial […]
Two Months of Blogging: Front Page of Hacker News and Money In The Bank
I’ve been blogging for about 2 months now. In that time, I have written 13 publicly accessible posts and have grown a success spiral from writing for 1 minute a day to writing for 15 minutes a day [1]. In practice, I actually wrote between 20-30 minutes per day, on average. Overall, running Make Write Learn has been a positive […]
One Month of Blogging: Writing, Passive Income, and Audience Building
I’ve been blogging for about a month now, and if I had to summarize: It’s been great. In my original post, I mentioned a few reasons why I started this blog. For those not inclined to read that post, here’s a summary: I want to write more, and not necessarily for any specific goal. I want to explore passive […]
On this blog
This blog will become great [1]. But this is only my first post, so I thought I’d cover some of my initial motivations for establishing a blog. In a future post, I hope to share more about how I started this blog, if any of you are interested in doing the same (short version: I’m using WordPress on […]