Sunk Cost

The Best Thing You Can Do With a Dormant Blog Is Kill It

📅 August 13, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

A dormant blog with thousands of followers feels like a liability. But the best move isn’t to revive it, sell ads, or ghost — it’s to kill it publicly. An honest farewell post converts trust into career capital, turning an archive into a monument of integrity. Selling or reviving destroys the very asset you’re trying to protect.

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Stop Trying to Finish Your Game. Do This Instead.

📅 July 26, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

The final 20% of a game isn’t code—it’s art, sound, UI, and a dozen other crafts. Your technical competence is a trap. Instead of finishing the original vision, monetize the assets you already built: sell the netcode as a dev tool, reduce scope to a single-player experience, or open-source the concept. The sunk-cost fallacy is lying to you.

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