Shipping Beats Planning
A first Markdown post for the writing archive: rough things in the world beat perfect things in a doc.
The useful version of an idea starts after it touches reality.
Planning still matters. Taste still matters. Thinking clearly still matters. But a rough thing in the world has a kind of leverage that a private doc never gets. It collects friction. It attracts better questions. It shows you which parts were fake.
That is why this writing system starts boring:
- one file per post
- frontmatter for metadata
- Markdown for most writing
- MDX only when the post needs live UI
The goal is not to build a publishing platform. The goal is to make writing cheap enough that it actually happens.
The rule
If the post is mostly words, keep it as .md.
If the post needs a component, chart, calculator, timeline, or interactive artifact, make it .mdx.
That keeps the common path clean without closing the door on weirder posts later.