About a third were long standing denizens of my drafts area. For those, I mostly got them done by abandoning whatever vision I originally had for the post, instead filling in only what was already in my head, just enough to make the post shippable at all.
I realize this isn’t the main point of your reflection here (which is quite funny and so great)… but I’m a fan of getting partial-baked ideas out of your head and getting some groupthink on them. Not sure if this happened for any of your posts as I haven’t read through all, but hopefully any engagement you got helped you clarify your views or gave you inspiration for new angles to tackle in future work.
I realize this isn’t the main point of your reflection here (which is quite funny and so great)… but I’m a fan of getting partial-baked ideas out of your head and getting some groupthink on them. Not sure if this happened for any of your posts as I haven’t read through all, but hopefully any engagement you got helped you clarify your views or gave you inspiration for new angles to tackle in future work.