Straight To The Point

#Personal

My challenge to write a blog post everyday for the first month is going good so far. Yesterday I wrote my first technical post about Kiro. It was a good start, however one detail made me feel quite bitter in the end of posting:

I had too much “bla bla” to get into the topic. Not sure why, no clue where it comes from, but I don’t like this when I’m reading a technical blog post.

With this in mind, I will add one more rules into my previous rules. No more intro, small talk type of content to my technical posts. I should cut the line, and come straight to the point, starting from the beginning of the blog.

Because I know! If by any chance someone ends up at my post, the reader doesn’t care why I use the tool, the reader doesn’t care about the history of the tool. The reader has a problem or a need, and they are looking for a solution, as quick as possible.

In crazy times that AI tools provide all the answers you are looking for, easier than ever before, the competition is fierce and I, as blogger, should also adapt myself into the situation. Noone has time, patience and attention anymore to read your lines of text that doesn’t give them much. So, let’s fit ourselves into the situation.

With this said, I also had some improvement in defining the categories of my posts. I decided to separate my posts into six categories. Three of them relate to human topics, while the other three relate to technical topics.

Human topics:

  1. Personal posts,
  2. Career related posts,
  3. Community related posts

Technical topics:

  1. AWS related posts,
  2. Cloud native related posts,
  3. Agentic AI related posts.

So far this is the plan! These may change, I may add more, drop some, depending on how my life evolves. We will see.

Oh one more detail: probably you notice already that I barely check the typos in my posts, fix the grammar, or re-read and paraphrase so far. This is not a long term habit. I just want to release my mind and gain the habit of typing. Eventually I also plan to improve that. But so far this approach makes it easier for me to gain the habit of writing. Just type the thoughts in your mind and off you go. Don’t worry about grammar, don’t worry about the narrative. Don’t empathize with the reader much. Because this is not important, yet.

As the time comes and I see some attention on people to read, of course I will also improve myself at these nuances. Grammatical mistakes and typos however, are always welcome. Because I’m not a native speaker, and I can make mistakes. Perfection is not the goal here. Let’s remind each other at every bit that we are humans.