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    "title": "SnagsNest",
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            "url": "https://snagsnest.com/i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing.html",
            "title": "I Have No Idea What I'm Doing",
            "summary": "I have no idea what I'm doing. It's a rejection of conforming to patterns to get traffic, in favour of self expression. It's a rejection of the so-called collective wisdom which says you need to put yourself out there and grin like an idiot while…",
            "content_html": "<p>I have no idea what I'm doing.</p>\n<figure class=\"post__image\">But that's ok<br><br>Its an experiment. It's a notebook<br><br>Just putting the process out there. See what comes<br><br>A creative process in real time.<br><br><img loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https://snagsnest.com/media/posts/1/seacaptain.gif\" alt=\"Sea Captain, &quot;yearr I've no idea what I'm doin.&quot;\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"></figure><br><br>Is it pretentious? Certainly. <br><br>Could it wind up being abandoned like so many other blogs I've started before?<br>Quite possibly.<br><br>Does that make it a waste of time? Unlikely.<br><br>Will I learn something valuable along the way? Invariably.<br><br>And that's the whole point.<br><br>The creative act is rarely done for strategic reasons. <br><br>This is all about zigging while the whole world zags. <br><br>It's a rejection of algorithms in favour of curation. </p>\n<p>It's a rejection of conforming to patterns to get traffic, in favour of self expression.<br><br>It's a rejection of the so-called collective wisdom which says you need to put yourself out there and grin like an idiot while you get churned up on social media, in favour of a return to the old web of anonymous weirdos. (The good kind of anonymous weirdos.)<br><br>It's a rejection of autogenerated fakery, in favour of hard-slog and authenticity.<br><br>A machine could never make something like this, it's too random<br><br>8.31 billion - that's how many people are on this planet right now, according to the great god Google. 8,312,823,625 if you want to be exact. <br><br>99.9% of 8,312,823,625 billion is a lot of people to try and be friends with, and I've met enough to know that's a fool's errand. </p>\n<p>0.01% of 8,312,823,625 is what... I need a machine to help me here bear with me. </p>\n<p>Nah, that's still WAY too much, too many numbers with too many commas...</p>\n<p>0.0001% is 8,312, still too many. </p>\n<p>0.0000001% of the world's population, that around 8.3 people, maybe on a good day I can bump that up to 9, that's a realistic target audience but let's be super optimistic and we'll say ten.</p>\n<p>Ten people, out of 8.31 billion, yeah that's about right, that's about the number of people I connect with in the real world, my true friends, so it's a realistic target audience for a new website. </p>\n<p>I mean, not if I want to monetize it obviously, but fuck all that shit. <br><br>I'm happy with an audience of ten people. </p>\n<p>Or just one person. </p>\n<p>If I can make just one person smile, just once. Then it's worth it.</p>",
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                "name": "The Snag"
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            "date_published": "2026-09-05T12:49:46+01:00",
            "date_modified": "2026-09-13T23:30:53+01:00"
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