--- layout: post status: publish published: true title: Let's scratch those itches! author: Julien Lengrand-Lambert author_login: jlengrand author_email: julien@lengrand.fr author_url: https://www.lengrand.fr wordpress_id: 856 wordpress_url: https://www.lengrand.fr/?p=856 date: 2013-04-17 14:27:53.000000000 +02:00 categories: - misc - Projects tags: - startup - lean - busniess ideas - blogging comments: [] ---

It's been a long time since I have written stuff regularly on this blog. But it doesn't mean nothing happened; far from that in fact!

For some strange reason, blogging is just like sport : the less you practice the less you want to get back in. Put some holidays in the middle and you quickly end up in a situation where your blog lies dead for weeks even though you have plenty of ideas of articles. And after some time, you don't even have ideas any more; which makes it even more difficult to get back on rails.

I don't know about you, but thinking about it I can often see a relation between the number of blog posts I write and the progress I make in my pet projects. Just like if blogging was some kind of motivator to work harder, or somehow linked to my productivity as a developer.

Blog posts are difficult for me to write. As a (bad) developer, I love to directly jump into the technical stuff. And I really have to force myself to take a step back and spend an hour or two writing about something I have already done. In the end, most of the blog post ideas I got end up in the trash bin and never get published.

But thinking about this, I realized that I actually write a lot. Only of all this is never actually goes on the internet. For years, there are two things I always have on me :

My glasses, just because otherwise I couldn't see anything (don't try to make a link with the post, there's none)
And a notebook with a pen, in which I write everyday.

This habit has been here as long as I can remember. I know I have a really bad memory. I always had. So noting down stuff is the best way for me to cope with this brain full of holes. Those last years, I started also writing down everything that could piss me off. Things that would take me a long time to do while I could avoid it. Or things that I would see people do that I sound could be done better (at least in my opinion). Those are just dummy statements on my notebook, but I usually put them somewhere else afterwards and sometimes give more thoughts about it. And when I started reading Hacker News and LifeHacker a few months ago, I actually realized that some of these dummy ideas have actually been transformed into sustainable businesses by clever people.

So instead of writing them to myself, I think I will start putting them out on this blog. Let's not call them business ideas (most are likely not to be) but simply itch scratchers, or life facilitators :).

In the end, I think I should have done this long in the past :

If anyone has the same ideas than me and read them here, Fine! That can be seen as some kinf of validation for him :)
It will force me to develop those ideas a bit more, to make them understandable by everyone.
It will allow me to post on this blog without more work than usual, as I already write those for myself usually.
And who knows, maybe will someone fall in love with one these ideas and contact me to make it happen!.

So now, let's make this happen!