Simon Willison is a prominent tech blogger who puts out multiple posts every day (!!). for over a year now i've been enamored with their work and indie web as a whole
one interview has Simon mention:
My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you have written, because the only alternative is a huge folder full of drafts and never publishing anything at all.
Nobody will ever know how perfect the thing you intended to write would have been. The flaws you see in your writing are invisible to everyone else.
i couldn't agree more! ...problem is, the more you hear of certain advice the more resilient you become to it. "just start writing" loses its meaning rapidly. as silly as it is, for the past year i've been rebuilding this very site, over and over, in a loop.
but "lead by example" they say! while it didn't immediately click with me, a couple months later this entry of theirs on video generation (minimax h3 is goated btw) made me laugh hard:
...The video is impressive, but the audio is weird speech-like garbage, because I didn't provide any prompt guidance as to what the audio should be. The prompting guide (which I didn't read prior to this experiment) has a whole bunch of information on how to get this to work.
like come onnnn, just regenerate the video?? no? instead they leave a comment documenting their mistake
i think that's beautiful