updates:

When overloaded with commitments, spend the MRT git-blogging time on the urgent items

As a thinker, my focus is far better when I write than without paper, or when I talk or …. Therefore, for my reflective writing, I much prefer printer + real keyboard + git + post-it. Other thinkers may rely on their brain alone, but I don’t really need to compare with them.

For lengthy blogging (including QQ), laptop feels better than smartphone or post-it. Blogging on laptop (not post-it) often feels like (somewhat measurable) progress on career, kids, investment, .. Not really burn/rot but I ought to reduce fixation on burn/rot ! As a comparison, how do I feel about yoga or coding drill..? More “burn” and less pleasure but in terms of long term impact I don’t know.

git-blogging often beats wordpress, so I use it even at home !

— A top-3 heaviest tcosts in blogging — searching for related blog posts, and updating some of them.

Git-blogging lets me work on a new content gradually, and only publish it after 10 revisions in git. At that time, it could be a new blogpost or an update to one old blogpost.

git-blogging on laptop lets me chip away at multiple (new or existing) posts, until it’s polished and complete. Can be more efficient than frequent and incremental updates on wordpress! WordPress is not designed for frequent updates.

Still when I have dual-monitor set-up, then /live wordpress blogging/ can still be more productive, but that’s a rare luxury. When I don’t have this luxury, I face no temptation. When I have this luxury I tend to get tempted into a lengthy “reorganization” of some “framework”. When I choose live blogging instead of git-blogging, every minor (even trivial, even temp orary) update would prompt me to start a lengthy process — search for the “best” blogpost, read it, read other related blogposts, then add the update at the right spot. This is the update process for a public website. For my minor changes this is low ROTI, too slow too heavy too painstaking too perfectionist. (In fact, a lot of these blogpost get relegated .. eventually removed.)

— smemo remains the most convenient (esp. cf 0.txt printout). I don’t have to but I could transcribe to git blog (better than wordpress)
— smart phone + fake finger is a 3rd option