I procrastinated a bit too much...

But it's time to get serious

Hey there. Matheus in your inbox again.

It’s been a while since I last sent a post here on Substack. I apologize for that, as I pretty much failed at keeping my promise of posting once per month.

Now, I could go on and explain why this failed, with a detailed summary with untrue stories of how my life got way too hard to keep up, the lessons that these hardships gave me and how I plan to improve for the next year with over-engineered goals.

But I won’t, since the reason I didn’t post was only because I procrastinated.

That’s it, I just couldn’t resist the desire procrastinate and decided to push Substack posts to “tomorrow”, but tomorrow never came. It’s kinda funny how I procrastinated on a blog that I made to procrastinate on my real tasks.

Ok then, what’s your plan?

Honestly? I got no idea. I could go back to posting monthly about things that I think are interesting, or post about the things that I learn about, or even make a weekly curation about the things that I consume during the week.

But the decisions are weighing down on me. I can’t figure out what is the best course of action. I wanted to make this blog a kind of goal to achieve in 2026, but I feel that it would put unwanted pressure to keep going, and ultimately make me quit it again. Maybe it would also end up affecting my other projects and goals for the next year.

So I’m looking for a compromise: I’ll aim to post in here every two weeks, just that. No setup target audience, no pressure, no need to post extremely long posts. If I can only write 300 words every two weeks, so be it. If I can’t even complete that, I’ll add a curation of the things that I consumed that week. Once I get into a groove and make this thing a habit, then I’ll think about structuring it.

What this means for you as a reader

You can expect me to become a bit more active on your inbox. However, things will be a bit more chaotic, as I’ll just be posting about my ideas that I get through the year, the things that I learn from books, articles and podcasts, and random stories that I come up with.

Heck, I might even post my narrations of RPG / Survival game characters that I make if people enjoy that. So things will be much broader than before.

Hopefully, you’ll still be with me and won’t hit unsubscribe before I even send out my first post of 2026. If there’s any specific topics you’d like to see me discuss here, feel free to answer this and future emails / posts for what you’d like to read.

I wish you a happy new year and a great procrastination session.