At the start of last year, I had two side-project goals.
The first was starting this blog. I haven’t been the most frequent or consistent blogger since then, but it’s been a nice occasional outlet for my thoughts. I especially enjoyed writing the two long-form posts I wrote last year: “Free Lunches in Frontend Dev” and “Certainty and Uncertainty as Elements of Faith”. By the numbers, I’ve written 16,685 words on this blog since it started, and 16 posts—about 1.5 posts per month on average. (I’m hoping to write more frequently this year.)
My second goal was to launch something relating to helping people live intentionally and meaningfully. I’ve been interested in how software can do that since 2017, when I decided to add a psychology minor to my computer science studies at Brigham Young University. This interest has taken me in a few different directions since then, including a handful of side projects that never got off the ground, but I wanted this new project to be different. At the beginning of 2023, my plan was that it would be an opinionated values-based journaling app with a blog explaining the principles and philosophy behind it, but as I read more about intentional living last summer, my thinking crystallized around an interesting concept: agency thinking.
I decided to start a blog and newsletter, which I’ve named Innerhelm, to explore agency thinking further. (I got the landing page and subscription form up on December 30th—accomplishing my goal of launching in 2023. 😅)
Innerhelm’s goal, as stated on its landing page, is to find answers to this question:
How can agency thinking be cultivated in oneself and in others?
If this concept and question are interesting to you, please consider subscribing! You can also check out the newsletters I’ve sent so far:
Additionally, I’ve written a post on the Innerhelm blog capturing the journey that led me to start this project.
Thanks in advance if you do subscribe! ⛵
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