It is Monday. The Friday post did not happen.
I was in a car for most of the weekend. Drove about 500km in two chunks with my family. No laptop, no quiet corner, no excuse that sounds like a real reason. I just did not write it.
the promise was specific, the reality was not
Back in April I made a commitment here: one post every Friday. Todoist handles the scheduling. If I miss, the blog goes quiet and anyone who checks can see it. That was the point. External accountability.
And it worked right up until it did not.
A family trip is not a crisis. It is just life happening on a day I reserved for something else. The trip was not a problem. It was just a different priority for a few days.
missing one is not the problem
I have been here before. Not with this blog, but with the 6:10 workout stack, the daily.dev reading, the multivitamin at 10:00. The pattern is always the same. I miss one thing, then the story I tell myself about the miss does more damage than the miss itself.
"I missed Friday" is a fact. I can acknowledge it and keep going.
"I broke my streak" is a story. That one takes three days to recover from, and sometimes a whole new system.
I have tried the clean-start approach too many times. The clean starts kept turning into clean slates, and the clean slates kept turning into nothing at all.
what I am doing instead
I am writing this post on Monday. It is late by three days. That is fine.
The Friday rule was never really about Friday. It was about not letting the blog go quiet for weeks at a time. It was about building the muscle of shipping something, regularly, even when the conditions are not perfect.
Missing a schedule is not the end of the world. Showing up across months is what matters. The blog that survives for a year with uneven posts beats the blog that hits every Friday for two months and goes quiet. I would rather write twenty scattered posts in six months than twelve perfect ones that all stop when the schedule becomes a burden instead of a tool.
the rule
Keep the commitment loose enough to survive a bad week. Keep it tight enough that I can not ignore it for a month.
If I miss a Friday, I post on the next day I can. No guilt. No reset. No "starting fresh." Just the next post.
The only metric that matters is whether the blog is still alive in three months. Not whether every post landed on the right day of the week.
That is the whole system. It survived the trip. It will survive the next one too.
