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What We Don’t Post

First Published: 2025 May 23 (because forgot to hit post)

Draft 2: 28 May 2025

Of the many things that I do not post, things that I worry may negatively impact my future career aspirations are high on the list. As a child, I was always advised1 to never willingly incriminate myself, and even though there is nothing objectively objectionable in what I deleted, I don’t know if it is necessarily a good look. There is a question to be had about whether it’s incriminating to describe that I have not posted something incriminating, but I think that I just don’t like being embarrassed by what I put out in the world.

Draft 1: 21 May 2025

I have, not infrequently, written an entire blog post only to realize that it had no place on this site. That can happen for various reasons, and I’ve more recently started thinking about how I can still reference that I did do writing even if I’m not posting the results. So, with that in mind, let’s talk about what we don’t post.

Most often, what I don’t post is either overly political or overly personal. That which is overly personal often includes vulnerability that does not feel appropriate2, and more often than not these days focuses around my mother. From here on out, I’d like to make a new draft of this with each post that I don’t make.

Yesterday I got most of the way through a reflection about morality and the role of women in the Church, before realizing that I didn’t really care about it any more. More than that, though, I think that I forgot what I wanted to say in the post at all. I hadn’t, and haven’t, reflected about the meta-reasoning behind each folly, and don’t really know if this is the space I want to use for to do so.3

Anyways, all this to say, there is much that I do not post, even though this is something that I will

Daily Reflection: 21 May 2025

  1. Top Priorities:

  2. Secondary Priorities:

  3. Adjacent to Primary and Secondary:

  4. Cleaning?

  5. External Obligations:

  6. Tertiary Goals:8

  7. Quaternary Goals:


  1. yes, I knew a bunch of lawyers as a child, how did you know?

  2. see the daily reflections!

  3. if only because I’m at writing camp and am currently at a weird mental and physical space where I both feel productive but also as though there’s nothing I want to do. It’s a really nice stage, because my thoughts feel like they’re under my command, which is not something that I am at all used to.

    Turns out it was a prelude to feeling tired, which I guess makes sense.

  4. SSC, AAT, if any vib states were good, what happened to the computations, etc

  5. or other things, as needed, I guess

  6. going from A to B is the same as B to A in reverse, give or take

  7. read: this is what I need to do in order to have the content for the talk which satisfies each of the sets of goals

  8. mmmm off by N numbering