Kicked off this blog a couple of days ago and I thought it would be a good thing to keep a list of why:
- wanted to try a simple AI setup that costs me nothing (already had the domain, and the Claude subscription, the hosting is free via cloudflare) - which is why it’s called marie.mariedrouvin.com, a little too much Marie but well, no new domain. (to write : I believe in a scrappy web)
- wanted a place where I could post whatever without it being on social if I didn’t want to - I already had a Substack and a newsletter (more than enough actually, I need to simplify it all a bit) and a blog is the perfect way to fuck format
- wanted to also have a place I can use as a collection practice in the future (link to visakan article on collections). I have published a lot of stuff over the years but it’s all scattered and cannot be retrieve nicely into collections
- also I am heavily influenced by people who have the practice of publishing a lot and regularly. They seem to get a lot of joy, recognition and use out of their blog. so I think it’s a good thing if I at least try to do something similar for myself