Chip Martens

Thoughts

Why there are no dates here

You won't find a date on anything in this section. That's on purpose.

I've kept a personal blog before, but I'd agonize over getting each post just right, and many of them never got finished.

So I stopped treating posts as finished.

Every post is a draft

Everything here is a living document. When I learn something, change my mind, or find a better way to say it, I update the post. Nothing is static.

That takes the pressure off. I can publish something useful today and make it better later, instead of waiting for perfect and publishing nothing.

Why it matters to you

A date tells you when something was written. It doesn't tell you whether it's still true.