My online efforts this year have been focused on Substack posts and Bluesky. For the content being created on Substack, I maintain a backlog and prepare weekly missives. Those blocks of content are generally about five paragraphs long and are refined during a five-week development process. Right now, my backlog includes 36 future blocks of content that have not yet been drafted or otherwise developed. Outside of those larger blocks of content, I have been posting real-time thoughts on Bluesky. That balance seems to work well enough, providing both a longer-form and a quicker content delivery method.

I have continued creating this type of weblog content, although I have been trying to determine whether it should simply be folded into the Substack effort. At the forefront of my thinking is whether these scattershot weblog posts need to come to an end and be refined into the weekly missive format. That did involve creating a new weblog post category and adding the week number to the title format.

Going forward, it might be more effective to open a Google Doc and compile thoughts and short writings throughout the week before posting content. This type of writing has generally remained separate from what ends up on Substack, as the process does not typically produce an essay or a focused block of content. However, I could potentially weave the two approaches together, which might result in a stronger overall set of content.

Such a shift would move the output from more targeted research notes in an essay format to a style of writing that leans a bit more personal. That blending could be the right evolution for this writing effort. This post reflects the first move toward a weekly weblog output. By the end of the process, I want to be producing content that offers more of an ongoing narrative rather than single-serving pieces written only to push the conversation forward.