another day, another blog

Posted: 2025-09-17

Last updated: 2025-10-19

Author: Pranoy Dutta

Writing is nature's way of telling us how lousy our thinking is. - (This quote is sometimes attributed to Leslie Lamport, but he is actually quoting Dick Guindon)

Although I've had a blog in one form or another since 2017, blogging never became a habit for me. I'd always have ideas but either never written them down. Whenever I did write something, I tried to do something too big or too polished.

Here's how I plan to change this.

1. Quantity has a quality all its own.¹

It's unintuitive, but I believe that lowering my standards to some degree will actually improve my writing quality in the long run.

The desire to have a blog with only the highest quality posts is actually hampering my ability to become a better writer. While I don't think you throw out all quality control, loosening standards in favor of consistency will hopefully result in increased quality.

2. Don't futz with it.²

Like so many aspirational bloggers, I fell into the trap of spending more time on my blogging setup than actually writing. I started on Jekyll, switched to Hugo, and now I'm on Zola. None of this matters to me or to readers.

While it's nice to have a cool custom theme, etc, etc, nothing matters more than just writing.

I've settled on a setup and I'm not going to futz with it anymore.

3. Make it social!

I've enlisted a group of friends to join a "blogging circle" where we all share our writing and keep each other encouraged to continue to be consistent with it.

I will link my friend's posts here from time to time and I can't wait to do this more.

Blog Trailer

Here are some topics that interest me and I hope to cover in no particular order:

• Distributed Systems
• Programming languages
• Concurrency
• Hashtables
• Politics
• Music
• Anything I'm reading
• ... really anything, we'll see.

Here's to consistency! -- Pranoy

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