Publishing used to take steps.

Now it takes one command.

That changed everything.

The problem wasn’t writing.

It was everything around it.

To publish, I had to switch context.

Leave what I was doing.
Open something else.
Log in.
Remember details.
Upload manually.

That break is enough.

It slows things down.
It creates hesitation.
It makes output easier to skip.

So I removed the steps.

Now publishing starts in one place.

The terminal.

One command opens the system.

Not just publish.

State.
Options.
Continuity.

New article.
Continue a series.
Upload changes.

The system handles the rest.

Files.
Links.
What is live.

It also shows where things stand.

How many articles exist.
When the last one was published.

Nothing extra to remember.

No separate place to switch into.

Just continue.

That changes behavior.

Publishing is no longer a separate task.

It is the next action.

The gap between thinking and publishing is smaller now.

So publishing keeps happening.

This is also the first time I am using the system this way.

Writing this.
Then continuing it.
As part of a series.

The writing is public.

The system is running.

This is part of the test.

If this continues, the system holds.

Status: active, unproven.

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— Dennis Hedegreen