“Hang tight 🫡 Post no. 1 on the way.”

That is the text that was happily displayed on this site’s blog page starting on June 15th when I refreshed my personal site. No, your eyes do not deceive you, the date on this (the first post) is September 10th. The reason is unsurprising to anyone who has felt even slight perfectionistic tendencies: I was wanting the first post to be perfect.

In my head, I had an idea that a good first post for this site would be highlighting why I thought blogging was still valuable in this day and age (2025). I’d go through the 3 things I found potent about actually sitting down a writing something, and it’d be a masterpiece that would kick off my blog on a high note.

Then three months went by and I hadn’t touched the rough draft I started.

This trend is not a new one for me. In fact, it is one of my core character weaknesses. More times than I can count, in a multitude of aspects across my life, I have been driven to inaction on a desired pursuit solely due to the fear of it going imperfectly. Without dropping too many self-help clichés on you, things going imperfectly is part of the process.

Sometimes, you just gotta make it happen. It’s not that serious, and it ain’t that deep. Life is short and to do the things you want to do you have to accept the fact that not everything will go absolutely 100% perfect. And that’s okay.

So if I can dedicate this entire blog to one core idea, it’d be to just take a stab at it and see what happens.

(So excited to weaponize this mentality to excuse poorly written code 😉)