This website is the product of one of my favorite documents: The Cult of Done Manifesto.

This simple manifesto has thirteen incredible points on maintaining forward momentum in the midst of the crazy lives we live, including:

#5 Banish procrastination ….

#8 Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.

#2 Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.

And also, the one that most inspired me to create this blog the way I have:

#12 If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as the ghost of done.

I Needed My Own Haunted House

This second-to-last point of the manifesto has always confused me. Is “the ghost of done” good or bad? Does publishing it on the internet mean something like, “Instead of doing it, you wrote about doing it, and therefore you didn’t actually do anything”? Because that does not sound like how I want to live my life.

Instead, I’m now convinced that “the ghost of done” represents a position that implies, “An idea has come my way. I do not have the capacity or resources to get it done. However, I will provide a written documentation on the idea and release it into the public domain with hopes that someone else may pickup the soul of this idea and give it a body (i.e. get it done).”

The “ghost of done” isn’t about failure. It’s about initializing public collaboration.

The Rules of Sharing

Creative Commons offers a series of licenses exactly for this purpose. Instead of requiring one to both create the idea and run the process to bring it to life, there’s a pathway to instantiate the idea and allow someone else to give it legs.

I have a lot of ideas. A lot of ideas.

The best part is, a lot of them are good ideas. The worst part is a lot of them are good ideas.

I don’t have the time, resources, or attention span to bring them all to fruition.

So, I need a place to publish them on the internet. What better place than in my personal blog! And what better framework than under the Creative Commons system?

Now, not everything on this blog will be ideas. I have many other items that I’d like to share and touch on. My approach to work, my Catholic faith, the lessons I’ve learned in parenting, and probably my fitness routine.

The Many Lives This Blog has Lived

“But Devin, how come you’re writing this on October 1st, 2026? Haven’t you had a blog on the internet loooong before today?”

Well, yes I have. This is probably the fifth or sixth time I’ve restarted devinhasablog.com.

However, there’s a major difference. For the first time, I have a counterpart website: finalsigma.io.

I’ve for many years now bounced back and forth about this blog, not sure if it’s a place for commercial endeavors or just personal musings. If I use it as a personal blog, it doesnt’ have much of a chance to generate commercial value. If I use it for commercial value, any half-finished thoughts just have to live in my head or on sticky notes.

Only recently have I found an approach to create a happy compromise. Content intended for a commercial audience go to Final Sigma, and content that’s intended for everybody else goes on Devin Has A Blog.

Both sites are created with Jekyll and hosted on Render. I have reduced the friction of publication as close to zero as I possibly can, providing an as-smooth-as-possible pathway to allow ideas to tumble out of my head and onto one of my two websites.

This approach comes at a time when I’m trying to stop using so much social media! As the Lord Jesus Christ and his Blessed Mother have given me immense freedom from my previous pornography addiction (more on that in a future article), I’ve discovered there are other, more family-friendly vices that would like to capitalize on that attention. I find myself steering away from social media as a defensive move which then largely cuts them off as a publication pathway. These two websites operate as the solution to that problem.

Great Artists Steal

Finally, I should say that I have one very, very clear inspiration for why I believe this blog will be valuable in the long run. I credit Alan Jacobs, essayist and professor at Baylor University. Fourteen years ago, I took a college course in which we read many of his essays. I’ve always found his personal opinions insightful, and he played a major role in helping me establish my own personal productivity system with one seemingly insignificant brain dump he made many years ago: “on Workflowy and the Tao of outlining.”

His thoughts on using an outliner (or One Big Text File) led me down a path of software experimentation that produced a system in Obsidian that I now teach others to implement. Not only have his thoughts led to greater psychological organization and peace of mind but has also meaningfully contributed to generating many financial gains in my professional career (also something I hope to write more about in the future).

So, this blog exists to provide to others any ideas that might springboard their own experiences onward and upward. Sometimes this will come as well documented ideas with a creative commons license. Sometimes these will come as musings related to some topic that I have spent much time contemplating. Either way, I hope that if you’ve found your way here, you’ll find something that’s valuable to you before you go.