[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":126},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-list":3},[4,69],{"id":5,"title":6,"body":7,"date":60,"description":61,"extension":62,"meta":63,"navigation":64,"path":65,"seo":66,"stem":67,"__hash__":68},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-750-words.md","Why seven hundred and fifty words",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":54},"minimark",[10,19,22,27,34,37,43,47],[11,12,13,14,18],"p",{},"Seven hundred and fifty words is about three pages of longhand. That is the\nnumber, and the number matters less than what it is ",[15,16,17],"em",{},"for",".",[11,20,21],{},"The first hundred words are throat-clearing. You write about the weather, the\nto-do list, the thing you should have said yesterday. This is not the good part,\nbut it is a necessary part — it is the sound of the pump priming.",[23,24,26],"h2",{"id":25},"getting-past-the-front-of-the-mind","Getting past the front of the mind",[11,28,29,30,33],{},"Somewhere in the second page, if you keep going, the writing stops being ",[15,31,32],{},"about","\nthings and starts being the thing itself. You lose track of the count. A sentence\narrives that you did not plan, and it turns out to be truer than anything you set\nout to say.",[11,35,36],{},"That is why the goal is not fifty words, or a hundred. Those you can do while\nstill performing for yourself. Three pages is long enough that the performance\ngets tired and wanders off, and what is left is closer to the truth.",[38,39,40],"blockquote",{},[11,41,42],{},"The point isn't to write well. It's to write at all — and to find, page after\npage, that the writing has been quietly rearranging you.",[23,44,46],{"id":45},"and-then-you-stop","And then you stop",[11,48,49,50,53],{},"The other half of the number is that it ",[15,51,52],{},"ends",". Reach the goal and the day's\nwriting is done; there is no bonus for more. A practice you can finish is a\npractice you will come back to tomorrow. That is the whole game: not one heroic\nsession, but the next one, and the one after that.",{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":57},"",2,[58,59],{"id":25,"depth":56,"text":26},{"id":45,"depth":56,"text":46},"2026-07-10","Not a nice round number, and not an accident either. On the length that is long enough to get past yourself.","md",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-750-words",{"title":6,"description":61},"blog\u002Fwhy-750-words","RNjEZGqVupa8i2Gm1q8AELCadFm2j27qrY9CEsiWmTc",{"id":70,"title":71,"body":72,"date":119,"description":120,"extension":62,"meta":121,"navigation":64,"path":122,"seo":123,"stem":124,"__hash__":125},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fprivate-by-design.md","Private by design",{"type":8,"value":73,"toc":115},[74,77,80,84,87,94,98,106],[11,75,76],{},"Most software wants to be seen using. It counts your friends, surfaces your\nactivity, nudges you to share. A journal that did any of that would quietly stop\nbeing a journal, because the moment you imagine a reader, you start writing for\nthem.",[11,78,79],{},"So the absence of those features is the product.",[23,81,83],{"id":82},"what-is-not-here","What is not here",[11,85,86],{},"There is no feed. No followers, no likes, no comments. Nothing you write is ever\nshown to anyone else, and there is no mechanism by which it could be. There are\nno notifications competing for the part of your attention you came here to spend\non yourself.",[11,88,89,90,93],{},"There is not even much of an audience of ",[15,91,92],{},"one",": the stats are deliberately\nquiet — a word count, a streak, a calendar — feedback that rewards showing up\nwithout turning the practice into a scoreboard.",[23,95,97],{"id":96},"what-that-costs-and-what-it-buys","What that costs, and what it buys",[11,99,100,101,105],{},"Entries are ",[102,103,104],"strong",{},"encrypted at rest",", so the words are readable by you and not by a\ndatabase dump. The trade-off is honest: encryption protects the page against\ntheft of the data, not against a server you have handed your key to. We think\nthat is the right line for a journal, and we say so plainly rather than implying\nmore.",[11,107,108,109,114],{},"What you get for all these absences is the one thing the practice actually needs:\na page that stays yours. You can ",[110,111,113],"a",{"href":112},"\u002Fproducts","export everything"," and leave whenever\nyou like. Nothing here is trying to keep you — which, oddly, is the reason to\nstay.",{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":116},[117,118],{"id":82,"depth":56,"text":83},{"id":96,"depth":56,"text":97},"2026-07-03","Why a journal with no audience, no sharing and no analytics is a feature list, not an omission.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fprivate-by-design",{"title":71,"description":120},"blog\u002Fprivate-by-design","HUoBAt05p8qHNMaP_tBwdfWfaL_b4pilG0SjEUr3h5I",1784109390948]