> I don't think that's an obstacle to writing. It absolutely has been for me, and I'm willing to bet if you actually track your time, you might be surprised.

> I don't think that's an obstacle to writing. It absolutely has been for me, and I'm willing to bet if you actually track your time, you might be surprised. Obsessing over building is like a warm blanket for someone who's a developer by trade. Writing in public, by contrast, will make a non-writer extremely uncomfortable and vulnerable. And humans are super good at pain-avoidance. I spent roughly 200 hours trying to be clever about building my last blog (experimenting with static site generators, headless CMS options, markdown flavors, CSS frameworks, build process, etc) when I was first getting enamored with the static site world. Fast forward a few years, it turns out I built a monster that I can't remember how to use, nor do I care to. And I realized instead of getting my ideas into the world, I hid behind that security blanket of "building."