A process for putting evergreen notes to work

Epistemic status: Needs more work. I'm not sure how much I should even focus on distilling notes into posts for now.

As I’ve set up my home page at pcalv.es to function as an actual blog powered by Bear, I’ve been getting into the habit of posting regularly.

So far, this has consisted of me pulling up something from my Evergreen notes, working on it until it resembles something that can be shared and understood by an audience larger than myself, and letting it out into the world.

This works but it has a couple of problems:

  1. Evergreen notes are, by definition, never done, so making a public note out of them is merely taking a snapshot and putting it out there. Blog posts should be static

  2. It puts me in the wrong mindset; an evergreen note can be rambling, contradictory. It’s meant for working things out, and the process is a messy one. If I self-correct and edit too much because I’m thinking ahead of the audience that will read the note, it’ll impede the process


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