Inaugural Post, March 15, 2025
Welcome to the inaugural post of ProfessorTom’s Output Log!
The idea behind this separate Substack is to be a at least a daily log of my reading, writing and research. It will be public and not be behind a paywall, though I make hook up a Stripe account for those who wish to support me in that way should there be sufficient interest.
I’ve wanted to set this up for a week or so, but it kept getting put off for one reason or another.
And it’s possible this might be short-lived because of events currently going on in my life.
Transparency
It is important to me that I make a public log of my reading/research/knowledge gathering for accountability purposes for a project that isn’t yet being fully executed. I can see myself being lazy and not mentioning the project here even if I do start it properly, but I would expect to drive external traffic here so there would be context. And that’s what the About page is for, though I can’t be arsed to update that right now.
Initial Vision
My initial vision for this Substack is that I will have a post at least once a day detailing what I have read/researched/(possibly watched) and what I have written.
There may be multiple posts in a day, but I expect for that to be a rare occurrence.
What I don’t want to do is get to the end of my day and then have to record all events from memory. So what makes logical sense is that I’ll create a Draft at the beginning of the day and keep adding to it and publish it at night.
I do NOT want to make a single post public in the morning that I edit throughout the day I want you to get all of a day’s update in one fell swoop so if you subscribe to this Substack you should be able to read the entire day’s entry from your email Inbox, provided the post is short enough to fit in an email.
However, on those occasions when I read late at night and cross the midnight line, what should I do, especially if I don’t have the energy to start or finish an entry?
I suppose that if this is to be more of a diary or journal–even though it’s supposed to be a public one–there aren’t rules, though I do wish that Substack would adopt the a variation of the LiveJournal feature where you can backdate posts. I think the reason that backdating posts isn’t a feature on most blogging/writing/social medial platforms is that we want to have a record of truth of when the post was made. A compromise could be that backdating posts are allowed, but the writing platform indicates that the post has been backdated.
Let’s get started!
