I take no pride or pleasure in the work that I have done in the past. If anything, I look upon it with a slight sense of disappointment. So I've archived my old blog and I'm starting again.
My focus has always been too diffuse. Gaming, creative writing, geopolitics, technology, history, etc. Part of this stems from the fact that 'consumption of knowledge' is so easy in today's world. It's too easy to fall into the cycle of consumption and not building something yourself.
So as part of my drive to become more productive, I've decided to learn to code in a time when agentic AI is taking over the world of software development. So why learn to code now? Because it's something that I can point at and say 'I made this.' I want to break the cycle of not being proud of my previous work.
Confidence is built on results and experience. This time I'll succeed in the challenge. This time the focus will be singular - creating mobile apps. Why apps? Surely the app market is saturated? It is indeed, but it's also really easy to show someone else what I have built. And for this reason alone I chose mobile apps.
In terms of making a plan, I intend to learn: