I’m typing a blog post out for the first time on Friday, May 29th of 2026. I’m messing around with all the options that I have on WordPress and trying to get things just the way I want them too. I wish I was better at designing a logo. The possibilities are endless for me to customize my homepage. Actually, I wish there were fewer customization options. When there’s too much to do, It can get overwhelming in my opinion. I’m a lot better at straightforward tasks than I am at open-ended ones. I prefer to get a checklist of things to do, clear instructions on how to do them, and the ability to work on them without interruptions.
This blog won’t be a diary for me. I don’t think it’s helpful or necessary for me to spill my guts about every little thing that bothers me in my daily life. Instead, I’m using this as a space to realize my creative impulses. Whether that’s going to be making lists of stuff that I like, doing mini-research papers on some topic that I’m obsessed with at the moment, or reflecting on and criticizing media from the current cultural landscape, I’m happy that I’ll be able to share my thoughts and work somewhere. I was already doing projects like this on Google Sheets and Google Docs for years now, but not really showing anybody. Maybe I can even make some money from this.
I think the biggest temptation that I’m going to have to resist with this blog is to be my own worst critic. Sometimes I’ll finish a listicle or demo of a song I’ve written, reread or relisten, and then immediately delete it because it’s not 100 percent perfect or I hate the sound of my own voice or guitar playing or something like that. Instead, I want to leave all of my posts up as I continue to evolve as a writer and blogger, so that I can see the progress I’ve made. I think this’ll be a great place for me to flourish as a creative and as an academic. I like to fancy myself as both of those. There’s something pleasantly old-fashioned about blogging too. As a guy who was born in 2000, I was a little young to experience the heydays of self-published blogs. Image-based social media was always way more popular when I was a kid.
I only know one person who has had a blog at any point in the past, and that’s my friend Katie. I don’t know if she still maintains her blog to this day, but I always thought her writing was clear, well-thought out, engaging, and reflective of her real-life personality. I think that my own blog posts should aim to be similar to that, and that I shouldn’t create an artificial persona for this blog. I’ve learned from life as an autistic person that masking can only get you so far, before you get exhausted from trying to constantly be someone you’re not.
Like I said though, I don’t want to treat this space as a place for unfiltered babbling. Being myself doesn’t mean that I have to verbalize every petty grievance or intrusive thought. Instead, I’m going to do my best to earnestly share the things I love, without fear of judgment. Even though the blog is literally called Incessant Ramblings, I think of the title as more of a good-natured jab at my own tendency to infodump, rather than snide or ironic self-pity. This isn’t the place for woe-is-me grandstanding and shouting into the void about cosmically unfair life is. Alright, now that I’ve laid down some ground rules, I have to think of some kind of witty sign-off to use for my future posts. Hmm. Let’s try this one out;
With digital gratitudes and free of platitudes,
Isaiah
Yeah, I like the ring of that. I’ll use that as my sign-off for the time being. Catch you people later.
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