Why even keep a rants page

I don't think my own website should only be a resumé.

A resumé is a list of things that happened, designed to impress some onlooker. It's optimized to be an impressive telling of your story, which is another way of saying it's optimized to be not really yourself, but rather just what you want to display to others. You read one and learn what someone says they did. You learn almost nothing about how they think, what they'd argue about at dinner, or what they're wrong about in an interesting way.

So this is the other page. The one with opinions.

The rules I'm thinking of giving myself

• Actually write it. If I wait until a thought sounds super smart in hindsight, I'll never publish. Half-formed and honest beats polished and never.
• Be willing to be wrong in public. The point of writing is to find out what I think. That only works if I let myself be wrong.
• No performance. Maybe I'll do that on LinkedIn. My lack of urgency in publishing LinkedIn posts probably means something.

Why bother at all

Because the ideas I trust most are the ones I've had to defend. Writing is just arguing with yourself slowly enough to catch the bad steps. And every so often someone reads a thing you wrote, tells you why you're wrong, and hands you a better idea than the one you started with. Sounds like a good deal to me.

More soon. Some of it will be about AI, some about building things, some about whatever I can't stop thinking about that week. If you disagree with any of it, tell me, please: that's the whole point.