Why this blog exists

Jeffrey Quiambao

23 Jul 2025 — 1 min read

Photo by Quaritsch Photography / Unsplash

Welcome!

This is the first post I've ever made on my own blog. Creating a blog is something that I've been thinking about doing for a while. While I do enjoy writing, I've always been pretty spooked about posting stuff in public out of fear of looking dumb or cringe but I don't think I care anymore. All the people that I look up to create stuff online in some way and I finally realized that the potential gains far outweigh the risk of looking dumb or cringe.

I'm not exactly sure what will come out of this but that's okay. My main objective for this blog is to solidify my thoughts, document my progress, and hopefully be helpful in some way to whoever is reading this.

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