Goals, Platforms, and Other Rabbit Holes I Didn’t Plan for
Let’s start with a confession: I cheated a bit. I originally said I would start from scratch. Find a platform, sign in, and just start writing. Clean and simple. Turns out, that was harder than I thought. Not because writing is hard (although, yes, that too)—but because choosing where to write became its own full-blown project. You’d think that in 2025, starting a blog would be as easy as opening a fresh notebook. And in theory, it is. There are a dozen platforms that proudly promise “Just sign in and start writing!” But the moment I clicked around, it was like being caught in a very polite maze of upsells and account creation loops. The Great Platform Spiral of 2025 I started with WordPress.org, because, well, it’s WordPress—it’s what Serious Bloggers use, right? Wrong. Or at least, not wrong, but… complicated. With WordPress.org, you don’t just start writing. You start…