A personal collection of essays I've written. A personal journey of lifelong learning, sharing resources, creating things, and trying to be better.
This blog was originally started in 2015 on Medium called Everyday Essays after I graduated from high school, after years of telling myself "I really wanna start a blog!"
Since then, I have migrated to WordPress with the name Wander Notebook, (still available to view here) to now self-hosting on GitHub using a bare-bones layout and design I made myself, under the name Notebook Casa.
With 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.
You can view a visual, graph-based history of posts on my Beeminder.
Many 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.
I 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.
Although 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.
If you haven't read any of my work before, here are my favorite pieces:
- My Writing Process: Five steps to go from brainstorming to completed work.
- The Way of Work: Understanding discipline for doing difficult tasks.
- Zen of Housekeeping: Life as a kitchen sink.
- Our Finite Everything: The Limited Amount We Have.
If you have an question, idea, or would like to guest post, please send me a DM on Twitter and we'll be able to work something out.
If you would like to contribute, I'd guide you to the Contribution Page on Jekyll's website for more information.
I'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.
Specifically, 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!
Notebook de Casa by Brennan K. Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The web design and code for this repository are written under the GNU General Public License v3
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