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"here a moment, gone another" [2] raises a heck of an important point for anyone more interested in writing than misery.
I've experienced the slavery to archival many times, whether it's literally "backing up files" or maintaining all posts of a blog.
Why carry all that shit around?
I mean, seriously.
For example, when it comes to code, I can rarely figure out past coding examples that at some point I thought would save me time in the future.
It's just plain better to have the skills to recreate what's needed for a period of time. And after it goes into disuse for a while (and most scripts/utils do), then how important was it to archive anyway?
An added bonus is having those skills means the opportunity to re-experience the fun of getting there per "The fun is in getting there" [2]
When it comes to blogging, well how could something I wrote a couple weeks ago honestly be any more significant to now than something I wrote in fifth grade?
Again, the fun is more in getting there, in having the skills to write in a way that feels good in a given moment. The culminating content matters the way Play Dough does when you're using it. Once you mash it back down to put it in its air-tight container - or you let it dry such that it ultimately crumbles - that culminating content mattered not one whit.
And life is the great masher downer....
[1] https://write.as/tttlog/here-a-moment-gone-another
[2] https://tilde.club/~oldernow/2024-05-28-the-fun-is-in-getting-there.txt
like thought to text compression and expansion ("let's queue of this *need-to-do* for a brief while and write stuff about it") to ("let's not think of this thing ever again, or at least a long time*) - writing can expand, layer, ferment and permeate something worth thinking/writing about, if that thing (the journal entry, Serious Blog Post(tm), or even a README) isn't needed any longer, bye and thanks for kicks. haha