Week 33, 2020 - Writing and editing!

I added a Field notes from my Liberating Structures practice section to my website. It's not linked from anything and I haven't shared it publicly yet but it's live! And there are twelve structures already, which have gone through multiple rounds of editing.

Last week I'd started tapping notes in Roam but was drawn to move to the CMS once there were seeds for a few drafts. I spent a few days setting up "templates" while tweaking the words. Oscillating between content modeling <> content writing is an interesting process, and one that's become deeply familiar over the years. First it's exciting, then it feels like I over-engineered it, then I find ways to strip it back, and then things settle in.

(For a split second I considered setting up a Wordpress for the extensibility but no! Must not re-visit platform choices every time I have a content idea!)

And with some elegant information architecture decisions, you can do quite a lot with Squarespace's limited features. I'm happy with the form now, and the design investment has already paid off in the last few entries. With the constraints in place - because that's what templates are - thoughts are faster to come, easier to pull together, and the production is a breeze.

So the pages are accessible to all but no one actually accesses them, and I really enjoy the freedom of that. Like these weeknotes :P