diff --git a/brainsteam/content/posts/2022/03/20-03-2022-weeknote-week11/index.md b/brainsteam/content/posts/2022/03/20-03-2022-weeknote-week11/index.md index be20a47..4a2fe5e 100644 --- a/brainsteam/content/posts/2022/03/20-03-2022-weeknote-week11/index.md +++ b/brainsteam/content/posts/2022/03/20-03-2022-weeknote-week11/index.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ tags: --- ## Why Weeknote? -One of my favourite [Fosstodon](https://fosstodon.org) people [Doug Belshaw](https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/) publishes a blog post every week about what he got up to during the week which is always interesting to read. Re-visiting your notes on a weekly basis is always a great idea from both a learning standpoint, it helps you cement the things you did and wrote down in your mind, and also from an appreciation and gratitude standpoint, it makes you take stock and look back at the things you did this week, the volume of which may surprise you. Doing this on your public facing blog has the side effect of making you write in a focused way as if someone other than yourself might read it which will help if you make sense of your own writing when you come back to review it in the future. It can help hold you accountable since its much easier to convince yourself not to bother writing a weeknote or to put it off if you are the only one who will ever see it. Finally of course, there's the possibility that others might read it and find it interesting or learn something. +One of my favourite [Fosstodon](https://fosstodon.org) people [Doug Belshaw](https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/) publishes a blog post every week about what he got up to during the week which is always interesting to read. Re-visiting your notes on a weekly basis is always a great idea from both a learning standpoint since it helps you cement the things you learned and wrote about in your mind and also from an appreciation and gratitude standpoint since it makes you take stock and look back at the things you did this week, the volume of which may surprise you. Doing this on your public facing blog has the side effect of making you write in a focused way as if someone other than yourself might read it and that will help you make sense of your own writing when you come back to review it in the future. It can help hold you accountable since its much easier to convince yourself not to bother writing a weeknote or to put it off if you are the only one who will ever see it. Finally of course, there's the possibility that others might read it and find it interesting or learn something. So I'm giving it a try, I don't know how well it will go or whether I'll manage it every week but I normally find myself at a loose end on a sunday afternoon/evening and so it seems like a perfect time slot to schedule in this new habit.