Zairi Aimen

This blog will most likely become my only venue for posting things straight up, without any planning or “professionalism”. And for the foreseeable future, the blog will have a variety of content that will hopefully be both useful and, on the other hand, a log of promises to keep myself accountable.

I've recently deployed this WriteFreely app, which is quite useful in some ways, but less dynamic than the previous Ghost-based blog. I wanted something that didn't seem too “professional”; I wanted it to feel old, nostalgic, and friendly.

That's why the switch happened.

Lost a couple of ideas I've had in the draft and a hit-piece on one of the people I've worked with and scammed me, but I'll leave those aside as I think their destruction will come by their hands.

This blog will now become an outpost of my thoughts, and I'm doing this for two reasons:

• first, I'm a PhD student, and my GPT-rotten brain needs to acclimate to writing again (see, I know some words, I can sound cool as well)
• Second, I want to keep a log of my journey for people who might find it useful, and to keep myself accountable for any promises I make.

And that's why the posts from today onwards will be more consistent and structured.

I'm not lazy, but I procrastinate a lot, so this might also be a promise that I can't keep, but the following are the topics this outpost of ideas of mine will discuss:

First, the usual;

• Freelancing experiences, guides, tips, and tricks ... etc
• Software engineering
• News, technology, and others

Second, the new;

• Financial journey and planning
• My PhD journey
• Project logs and progress.

With these new additions, I'm hoping to achieve three things:

• Get more eyes on my services, as a freelancer, it's obvious. Even though I'm working full-time, I have some time left for freelancing. Recently, it's not been much because of PhD work, but still.
• Getting more eyes on my projects, as I'm planning some interesting ones.
• Accountability; with me being a professional procrastinator at this point, I need all the motivation I can get, and that comes in the form of accountability and consequences.

This has been it for this post, will start posting consistently from today onwards, hopefully.

Thanks for reading.