Introduction to the Daily Diary
Why am I doing this?
Good question and to be honest, I’m not really sure. Firstly as I’m sure you’ve learnt from my About page, its always been a dream of mine to have a blog. I think the dream stemmed from a desire to write in some way that was for others to consume. I really have no idea why this attracted me, perhaps my desire to replicate writers I liked, provide enjoyment to others or probably, most likely, prove home smart I am to the world.
Despite this desire to write, I realised that I had not written much before and if I was serious about doing it I would need to get into a daily practice of writing and feeling comfortable sharing my thoughts, feelings and idea without it being a big deal.
Before I thought this blog would become a reality, I heard about Richard Herring’s daily blog on the podcast What did you do yesterday which Richard has been writing since Nov 2002. So when it came to ideas to steal be inspired by for my own blog I remembered it. Also coincidentally around the same time I also heard about Mike Birbiglia’s famous “Secret Public Journal” a similar idea which I discuss about on my blog post on June 18th 2026.
Any guiding rules?
This page also contains some rules on what I want to write in my daily blog and perhaps more importantly what I don’t want to write. I’ll try to hold myself accountable to these but if you ever feel I have failed in my duties please reach out to me from through the form on my Contact page1. Ok here are the rules (which were also heavily “inspired” by Richard Herring)
- I will try to keep these posts as anonymous as possible. So apologies if things seem weirdly vague sometimes or are oddly written because I don’t want to mention specifics. I care about my privacy.
- I would also like to extend the same privacy to the people I write about so I will never use names unless these people are already known in public life like celebrities.
- While I want to be anonymous I would still like to share things about myself and want it to be things I would feel comfortable discussing in normal day to day conversations.
- In other words I don’t want to this to become a therapy session with the world so I will try my best to avoid overly emotional or personal topics.
- The goal is to be pretty minimal effort so please don’t be disappointed with spelling mistakes, poor writing and maybe some incredibly boring, rambling posts.
- I’ll try to always write one each day, but sometimes I will let them bank up and write a couple on the same day.
That’s it for the time being. The rest will be revealed in due time. These rules may be changed at anytime not that I expect anyone to care.
Footnotes
Sorry this doesn’t exist at the moment↩︎