Grokking AI on K8
If you are thinking but not writing, you only think you’re thinking. Writing is the cheapest way to find out whether an idea survives contact with language.
Here are a few rules that helped me.
1. Keep a capture inbox
Most drafts start as a single line in a text file:
- “why static blogs outlive dynamic ones”
- “the case for measuring less”
The bar for adding a line is nearly zero. The bar for turning a line into a post is “when it keeps coming back”.
2. Write the ugly version first
A complete, honest, ugly draft beats a beautiful paragraph you never finish. Editing is a different cognitive task than generating — don’t make one block the other.
draft v1: just get the skeleton down
draft v2: make the argument coherent
draft v3: cut everything that isn't load-bearing3. One idea per post
If the title needs “and” in it, it’s probably two posts. Short posts that actually ship beat epic series that don’t.
4. Publish on a schedule you can keep
Weekly is aggressive for most people. Once a fortnight, consistently, for a year, produces more writing than daily sprints followed by burnout.
Aim for a pace you could hold for ten years, then subtract half.