New blog

I’ve deleted my old website (blog might be over-selling it) and setup home in a shiny new Svbtle blog. All because:

  1. I enjoy writing and find it useful to organise my thoughts, but my old blog was difficult to update and couldn’t store draft ideas. Therefore I’d rarely update it, something I hope the new blog will encourage me to change.

  2. I’m currently exploring minimalism beyond the possessions I own, looking at what I create, how and why. Removing the need to manage how the blog works lets me focus on the words.

  3. I love the product (despite the name!) and have been keen to try it since becoming available for anyone to signup.

I considered copying across my old posts, but (unsurprisingly) they all felt dated. So I’ve gone for a fresh start, with just a list of old titles for continuity:

 
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