TIL vs TIW

An oddity of producing TIL blog entries is that they rarely match the TIL claim. At least it’s that way for me, and I suspect most who try to produce something on a daily basis. It really should be called TIW for “Today I Wrote”.

Even ideas that are easy to write up in short form usually take more than one day to come into full focus for me. And the TIL blog is primarily an exercise in daily writing, so TIW seems more fitting. The mismatch of TIL with the actual production amuses me for no good reason.

I saw numerous random posts under a TIL heading before encountering Simon Willison’s impressive collection. His is a good model to follow.

Today I learned of Josh Branchaud’s TIL repo and its origin story.