Battling Resistance

October 2025 was my first full month of daily blogging since March 2019. I find doing almost anything for multiple days in a row—besides eating, sleeping, and brushing my teeth—to be a real challenge!

I don't exactly remember what compelled me to start writing, but it looks like I was originally inspired by Seth. If I recall correctly, I might have recycled the domain name Empanada.Life after I gave up on starting a food truck.

I wrote at inconsistent times while driving Uber and teaching kids in St Louis. But I still managed to git push and bcc my list from gmail at some point each day.

I must have been trying for public accountability. Perhaps behavioral consistency in this one little project would help ground me...I clearly felt a need to explore my psyche and push back against certain noncommittal tendencies.

It worked back then. I crystallized a high-agency mindset, catalyzed creative religiosity, and finally articulated some life principles. These hold up well, and I'm grateful for the written artifacts to look back upon.

The daily blogging rule is working again for me now. It helped ground me when I was tempted to interview for a job. And along with Abundance House, it has brought certain creative blockages into focus.

The last 3 months were a blur. In August, I was figuring out some family issues and my transition away from Shuffle. September took longer than anticipated to move and settle into SF.

October did not achieve maximal mission progress, but this blog has set a new baseline for me. I see the next steps on my personal compounding path more clearly as a result.

Only once so far did I come close to breaking my 1:59am publication deadline. But my stated commitment kept me on track, and I made it with 20 minutes to spare that day. Ideally, I have at least 2-3 posts queued in advance.

The battle continues every day—rain or shine, holiday or not.

Here's to a great November, and beyond!

"It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance...

The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it...

...fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day."

– Steven Pressfield, The War of Art