A first post on the new domain
Welcome to the first official post on the new domain after it went live today. It took less than 24 hours for the DNS magic to complete enough for the Substack custom domain automation to go live. That is much better than the maximum of 36 hours they gave as a maximum timeframe. Overall, I’ll be curious to see what ends up happening on this new leg of the journey. Sure, writing 2,740 words per day is a noble pursuit. It’s also very difficult to achieve on a regular basis. Sure, the pursuit of a perfect possible future involves making a choice to walk a certain path. A path that involves working just beyond the end of what is possible. That takes a lot more than inaction. It takes an approach where you get right up to that edge and try to look beyond it and eventually keep striving toward the next edge. It’s a journey with a lot of opportunity along the way. Acknowledging that writing goal is like getting a feel for an upper bound and understanding that being grounded is required.
My big plan for tonight is watching the 3rd game of the NHL finals on TNT. The series is all tied up, and tonight should be a good game. One side or the other is going to have to take the initiative in the series, or this final series is going to end up going 7 games. It’s about 34 minutes to puck drop and I’m already invested enough to watch the entire game tonight. During the game I plan on posting and checking Bluesky. Right now it is my preferred social network and I interact with some hockey fans on a regular basis. Mostly Colorado Avalanche fans, but I’m open to hockey-related fandom in general. We are only getting contact-related updates for the Avalanche team right now. The vast majority of hockey attention is focused on the finals which is probably the way it should be at this point in the year.
During the game, I’m going to go line by line through the Substack settings for this new instance. My setup so far has been pretty basic, but I feel like I could do a little bit more to use all the features they have available. The only thing I did to the previous WordPress installation was take a backup by export and save it to the cloud. Everything is just sitting on the precious server without any DNS connection. My basic testing of the domain looks like all the redirects are working properly. Warmups are underway at this point, and the TNT sports announcers seem to be super into it. Even the great one is wearing a tie and focused during the broadcast. The broadcast so far looks crisp. Being able to see the puck moving on the ice is something that is easier on a high-definition broadcast. I can remember back to lower-resolution broadcasts where you could see the players moving, but the exact location of the puck had to be inferred based on how the teams were traversing the ice. I’ll be the first to admit that hockey as a sport is best experienced in person.
My current writing plan is generally to spend daily focus here producing missives, investing in writing a solid weekly research note, and ultimately producing meaningful AI updates as they happen. Three pillars of writing that will be approached differently based on the situation. We will get a sense of how things are going to turn out after a few days of allowing the process to flow. It may not be the best plan, but it is what we have to work with right now and for the foreseeable future. I’m just going to do some light proofreading and hit publish. At this point, I’m not going back to the five weeks of writing and review process that I used for the last couple of years. We are now working real-time.