Going West

I’m Will. I write software, run other people’s production servers, and occasionally finish a short story. This site is where those things live without pretending to be one coherent “brand” — it’s just what I’m doing and thinking about, in roughly that order of frequency.

Expect notes on infrastructure and small-business tooling, some fiction and the occasional submission log, and whatever else seemed worth writing down at the time. No content calendar, no funnel — just the list below, which you can subscribe to by email if that’s useful.

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What WPM Actually Measures

Flavio Copes has a post on why he thinks more clearly when he types than when he dictates. He points out that writing means two things: capture (get the fleeting idea down before it evaporates) and development (turn it into something that actually holds up). He points out that voice dictation wins at the first and typing wins at the second because the friction of typing forces you to look at a sentence before you can meaningfully move past it.

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