Thinking a little about how I want to blog going forward.

I thought I wanted to put this and the old RealFake Blog on the shelf, and then start the RealFake Blog anew.

But I just reread this one and have a couple of immediate reactions that changed my mind:

  1. This is actually pretty solid; it’s probably a little more naval gazing than I’m feeling at the moment, but the writing isn’t embarassing.
  2. All my “reboots” – especially all the stuff from January 2016– could be written today.

I feel like I’ve been on a merry go round a bit and ended up back at the same spot.

It’s certainly not that I haven’t gotten anywhere.

On the contrary, my life has been completely transformed in almost every meaningful way. I’m no longer in a marriage I can’t stomach. I am in a better place financially than I ever realistically thought I’d be. And don’t have anything else to prove career-wise; not that I ever had such specific goals for a career, but helping lead a successful exit to the parent company of the NYSE– and the ride that got us there– gives me a lot of cocktail party fodder for the foreseeable future. And making a decent living that ideally let me retire on the early side while having an impressive enough career is all I ever really wanted on that front.

Now that the project is “figuring out what’s next”, what will facilitate that?

  1. a semi-public writing practice
  2. cleansing my informational inputs
  3. the time reclaimation that #2 entails