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This article was first published on 15 July 2020, and I'm porting from a previous platform to this current one.
I chanced across this concept as I read Jon Dyxstra’s blog, where he started a new product review blog, but he keep writing first without adding any tags or categories, simply because he wants to see how the site grows and develops first.
I like that idea.
I believe the major reason why this blog (NigelChua.com) isn’t growing as fast isn’t just because I’m busy with a few businesses to juggle such as
…is that I have been wanting to think the entire project first before I take consistent action, such as writing here for myself and my readers.
It’s not that I don’t have topics to write about, I do have quite a bit, just that I was thinking if I should sort/think out the categories first so that the topics can fall within the categories I prepare, but that was an error I believe.
As I am more intuitive and exploratory curious in nature, I will do it the other way around: take an intuitive semi-structured approach to writing NigelChua.com and then take a look to create/refine the categories here on this site.
Let’s see how that goes.
We don’t have to have the entire map and structure mapped out first before we make our move – we can make our move first and then refine as we go along.
Hmm - despite me writing this, yet I fell into the trap of trying to categories and tag everything FIRST before writing...hence I didnt write much at all, now that I'm porting all the content from October 2019.
Less than 15 articles across the span of 5 years?
That's...disappointingly annoying yet, it shows how when I'm overwhelmed, I just dont do anything. That's how I lose 5 years of writing opportunity costs.
And that's why I'm back here now in Solo Build It - take away all those WordPress tinkering and dealing with the plugins and apis and whatnot. Just go back to basics.
That should work...if not then its me wakaka!
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