The Cost of Not Writing
I haven't been writing for the past few years.
Well, that's a bit of a lie - I have been writing.
However, a lot of my writing revolved around sales collateral like this, this, or this that a lot of folks are never going to actually see.
These are documents meant for very specific crowds, and they are meant to convey someone else's message rather than mine.
And, if I wrote something someone was actually going to see, it wasn't going to be under my name, or it was going to be in video, not a piece of writing, or it was going to be ephemeral in nature and pitch-y because putting food on the table is important.
You get the point.
I feel like this work - that involves me writing for other people rather than myself - results in a weird situation: I don't know what my opinion is anymore on some topics.
Sure, I know what I read or what I wrote for others - I can articulate myself around most topics in my field well enough.
But I feel like I don't have an opinion of my own anymore; it's basically a mish-mash of industry trends and HN articles and long-form blog posts, rather than any coherent thought or consideration.
Writing this very short piece is the first time I feel like I'm thinking clearly in a few years - which is something very weird to say for someone who makes their living out of putting words to (digital) paper.
I guess that's the cost of not writing.
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