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I try to get into the mindset of playing live music, not recording a studio album, except when writing a piece I really want to be an album.
Gruber compares his approach to blogging with live music rather than album recording, treating occasional exceptional pieces as albums but otherwise keeping a live, flowing mindset. ✦ AI generated
John Gruber · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-08 · original ↗
Me, I try to get into the mindset of playing live music, not recording a studio album. Except when I'm writing a piece where I really want it to be an album. Those aren't rare, per se, but they're occasional. If I tried to make every post a hall-of-famer I'd never get anything out.
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- ·Blogging mindset = playing live, not studio album
- ·Exceptional pieces treated occasionally as albums
- ·Such pieces are occasional, not rare
- ·Trying to make every post a great would block output
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