This morning I started thinking about how I could take this message-to-self idea further.
I am quite convinced already this is a great format for me to get the writing started.
It’s also great at sequencing ideas in very simple sentences.
And really, that has always been the biggest blockers to writing blog posts to me.
Blog posts are usually short essays with a beginning, a development and a conclusion.
Writing a good blog post, in my view, is more cognitively loaded than writing a few texts.
It’s a little bit like writing a plot vs writing a dialog scene:
Writing a dialog is quite organic to me while…
… writing a plot requires a birds eye view and a greater discipline I find?
Not sure if this is a shared “universal” experience or a case by case.
But the amazing thing with blog posts and longer formats in general is that they have better staying power.
A chat bubble is very ephemeral by essence while a post or an essay can stay a reference forever.
So now I wonder, what could I do that would help me to turn small chat bubbles into longer posts.
A few ideas to develop later:
I could write answers texts that ask me to clarify (a little bit like playing chess solo)
I could create a tool off some LLM API that do a reverse prompting off my texts (asking me to clarify everytime it detects ambiguity)
I could fork down from a specific bubble into other chats, like “threads” (this doesn’t solve my text to essay problem at all but it does help expanding and creating more material, which is also worth looking into)
This was way too long. Ok bye.