permission to be wrong
A huge mental block I had in starting writing is that most things will (potentially) either:
Be wrong or harmful due to inaccuracies.
Be obvious, self-evident, or stupid.
Be too revealing, and I can't roll it back.
Be nothing new, likely just a worse version of someone else's work.
Somehow be all of the above at the same time.
I've always been obsessed with fact-checking the things I do. Maybe a decade's worth of consuming edutainment content and checking discussions made me overgeneralizing the need for rigor. Instinctively, I know there is value in simply sharing your experiences, and I also know that not everything needs to be instructional or as accurately descriptive as possible.
Regardless, one of the reasons I am considering blogs as a medium is the option to edit later when new information arises, whether from other users or the world.
I'm still figuring out where all of this mental baggage comes from. In some way, I've always been scared of decisions that are one-way. Thinking about it now, all of these fears are based on reputation damage, which I see as irreversible, although I'm certain this is a cost-benefit error. Pretending to be someone I'm not will stagnate the progress of the real me's output.