Building in Public, Imperfectly
Learning to post without overthinking, one scribbled thought at a time.
This year, I'm finally getting comfortable with writing and posting regularly. Honestly, that's a win for 2025.
I'm also starting to think it’s time to add a domain to this site — officially bringing it under the developerharon.com umbrella. Another tiny but meaningful step in building my little brand empire.
A lot of this progress has been thanks to LLMs like ChatGPT. They've played a huge role in helping me put my scattered thoughts into words. But more than that, it's because I finally stopped perfecting everything before posting. Now, I just scribble down my ideas, clean them up a little with ChatGPT, and post the first version that feels "good enough."
Meanwhile, YouTube is taking a hit again. No upload this week. I just didn’t record anything worth posting.
Growing that channel is clearly going to be an uphill battle. It’s going to require a lot of unlearning, relearning, and — as I’ve said before — pushing myself to actually record the videos instead of thinking about them.
Something I've realized through this whole process: what's been the hardest about writing here — and about building on social media in general — is talking to an audience.
Engaging, providing value, giving people a reason to check back daily — that’s a whole different skillset.
I've spent most of my life on the consumer side of the internet. Switching to being a creator is forcing me to confront how differently you have to show up. It's not just posting what you feel like. It's giving something to the people who stop by. And I'm still learning what that even looks like for me.
This site is starting to feel more and more like a public journal. Maybe that’s what it was meant to be.
But then... what about my other platforms — my social media accounts, my YouTube channel?
That's the part I’m still figuring out.
One post, one upload, one thought at a time.