{"id":116453,"date":"2025-11-06T20:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=116453"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:08:21","slug":"so-why-not-write-a-blog-post-or-two-just-to-show-yourself-that-you-can-do-it-getting-started-requires-an-act-of-willpower-and-the-outcome-is-just-as-satisfying-as-finally-figuring-out-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=116453","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;\u2026 so why not write a blog post or two, just to show yourself that you can do it? Getting started requires an act of willpower, and the outcome is just as satisfying as finally figuring out the asymptotically optimal solution for an algorithmic problem you\u2019ve been trying to"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;\u2026 so why not write a blog post or two, just to show yourself that you can do it? Getting started requires an act of willpower, and the outcome is just as satisfying as finally figuring out the asymptotically optimal solution for an algorithmic problem you\u2019ve been trying to<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1986525243020558643\">Nov 6, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>November 06, 2025 at 03:05PM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026 so why not write a blog post or two, just to show yourself that you can do it? Getting started requires an act of willpower, and the outcome is just as satisfying as finally figuring out the asymptotically optimal solution for an algorithmic problem you\u2019ve been trying to &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers) Nov 6, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=116453\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;\u2026 so why not write a blog post or two, just to show yourself that you can do it? Getting started requires an act of willpower, and the outcome is just as satisfying as finally figuring out the asymptotically optimal solution for an algorithmic problem you\u2019ve been trying to<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-116453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116454,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116453\/revisions\/116454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116453"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=116453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}