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A personal journey of lifelong learning, sharing resources, creating things, and trying to be better.\n\nThis is an archive of my earlier writing and experiments in web design.\n\n## History\n\nThis blog was originally started in 2015 on [Medium](https://medium.com/brennanbrown) called _Everyday Essays_ after I graduated from high school, after years of telling myself _\"I really wanna start a blog!\"_\n\nSince then, I have migrated to WordPress with the name Wander Notebook, (still available to view [here](http://wandernotebook.com/)) to self-hosting on GitHub using a bare-bones layout and design I made myself. This repository now powers the archived site at [brennan-archive.netlify.app](https://brennan-archive.netlify.app).\n\nWith no expertise or formal education, I have written a multitude of posts on various topics over the years. My most frequented topics are happiness, creativity, productivity, and writing itself.\n\nYou can view a visual, graph-based history of posts on my [Beeminder](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/blog).\n\n## Purpose\n\nMany people will tell you that the communicative medium of blogging died out many years ago, replaced by more convenient, short-hand modes of interaction and technology.\n\nI am on a quiet, reluctant fight against that. I believe that people should take a step back from the privately-controlled, information-overloaded platforms of social media that have monopolized the internet and instead carve out a piece of digital real estate for themselves.\n\nAlthough the age of (poorly designed) Geocities and Livejournal are over, people still have a unique voice that should thrive independently, and not rely on the handful of websites that everyone uses. The Internet is for everyone.\n\n## Recommended Reading\n\nIf you haven't read any of my work before, here are a few pieces:\n\n- [My Writing Process: Five steps to go from brainstorming to completed work.](https://brennan-archive.netlify.app/my-writing-process/)\n- [The Way of Work: Understanding discipline for doing difficult tasks.](https://brennan-archive.netlify.app/the-way-of-work/)\n- [Zen of Housekeeping: Life as a kitchen sink.](https://brennan-archive.netlify.app/zen-of-housekeeping/)\n- [Our Finite Everything: The Limited Amount We Have.](https://brennan-archive.netlify.app/our-finite-everything/)\n\n## Contributing\n\nIf you have an question, idea, or would like to guest post, please send me a DM on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/brennankbrown) and we'll be able to work something out.\n\nIf you would like to contribute, I'd guide you to the [Contribution Page](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/contributing/) on Jekyll's website for more information.\n\n## License\n\nI'm a strong advocate for open-source, including realms beyond software. Because of this, all of my writing on this blog is under Creative Commons.\n\nSpecifically, this means that you may use or reuse anything I create (including for commercial reasons), under the conditions that you attribute me and use the same license!\n\n\u003ca rel=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0;\" src=\"https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003eBrennan's Old Blog\u003c/span\u003e by \u003ca href=\"https://brennan-archive.netlify.app\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\"\u003eBrennan K. 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