For a daily blog, this post is the cheat post of all cheat posts. It’s a post about the idea of re-sharing a post. I was going to just… re-share a post, but I first wanted a post to point to each time I re-share.
It’s common (enough) in radio to share a rerun every so often. If you’re a listener of This American Life, you’ll know this. I used to feel a little cheated out of a new episode, until I realized that… I wasn’t.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve sometimes listened to the episode when it was first published, but on This American Life they don’t just share the rerun, no explanation. They’ll tell you it’s a rerun. They’ll add a little color. They might tell you when it was recorded and why, or why they’re rerunning this show specifically, at this specific point in time.
There are days—not that many of them, but they happen—where I have so many things to do that I really don’t feel like I can squeeze a daily blog post in. I have three options at that point: don’t publish a post at all (can’t), publish something crap just for the sake of it (don’t want to), or… what? I’m proposing that—just like in radio—I publish a rerun.
As with This American Life, I won’t just publish the same text—nor just link to it, no explanation. I’ll spend a couple minutes finding a post that I think is worth rerunning, and worth rerunning that day specifically. If I only have a couple minutes, I’ll spend it on curation, not on crap.
So from time to time, you’ll see a rerun from me. I’ll tell you it’s a rerun and I’ll add a little color. Some stretches might have more than others, and when there are more you can assume that I’m doing myself a kindness when it’s needed most. I hope you discover a post that you might have missed, or rediscover one at the right time.