A Look Forward

Same Goal but a Slightly Different Goal in Year 2 of the Blog

Mark Brown

September 8, 2022

I’m going to be direct to the point with this entry. No essay. Just a “state of the blog” post. I took this week off a bit from writing. I got a bit done, but not enough to get an essay worth posting. I have a couple of different pieces in the works. Year 2 for the blog will look quite a bit like the first, but there will be some experimenting with the process part of the bigger essays.

The biggest piece I did was was The Road to Discipline by a mile. I looked at my blog ideas and saw everything they had in common and went after what is what is easily the most ambitious writing I’ve done since college. I released that in multiple parts the way I did because I didn’t have it entirely written. The shift for year 2 is for me to get a that kind of writing effort all done before releasing the individual chapters. It will definitely test my ability to organize my existing lifting, working and writing schedule but I think it will be worth it to produce superior content for the blog. My aim is to write essays that help readers understand something new or from a different angle. That hasn’t changed, nor will it.

The first big writing project I will be working on behind the scenes will be about the importance of culture to organizations and individuals. I know I’m not the only one out there with that content but I have been thinking about it lately. I need to put pen to paper. It may not end up being the length of what The Road to Discipline was but might not be far off. Road ended up being about 45 pages in the program Page total. There are a few other bigger concept ideas I will be working on as well.

I am also running out of equipment to review. I’ve run through most of the equipment that I bought over the space of 2020 and 2021, so don’t expect to see a lot more equipment reviews for the foreseeable future. There could be some pieces of equipment I see at the gym I review at some point. I’m not there enough to really give a fair opinion of for the bulk of the year though.

Food will make its way into the blog some more, especially as cooking is a skill that I consider important to maintain in the same way that strength training is. Cooking is one of those activities that humans do that brings uniqueness to individuals of the species. It makes me a bit sad that cooking has been made to look like a waste of time that needs to be shortened down to fit in our lives.