Nicollet.Net

The old categories of “Functional Tuesdays”, “Dynamic Wednesdays” and “Imperative Fridays” are getting increasingly restrictive, mostly because they were though out quite quickly when I first started my blog five months ago. The main problem is that, while I do have things to talk about, quite often it’s a matter of one category being full of ideas and the other empty (with the inspirational category changing over time). This has obvious effects:

• I don’t have an excellent idea for a column, so I’ll write a short article on an idea that’s good, but not awesome.
• I can’t stay passionate about a topic for weeks, nor can I write everything in advance and still manage to fill the less passionate columns in time, which means a lot of ideas are just thrown away because they don’t fit my publishing schedule.

Another reason why I’m giving up on these is that Wordpress seems to have wiped away all my categories. There are no more categories either on the public website or in the back-office, and I won’t be hunting for them in the code or database anytime soon.

Also, I won’t be changing the regular schedule: Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday remain fixed publishing days, although if I have too many things to say, I will add them anywhere during the week. This way I still have a quantity constraint (or else I won’t get anything done) and the fixed days will prevent me from writing the articles in a single sunday evening rush.