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"I'm a [blank] guy."

This is the Andrew Canion format, defining yourself through your habits, preferences, and small obsessions.

Writing

I'm a "write it down" guy.
I'm a "build with Markdown" guy.
I'm a "own your content" guy.
I'm a "750 words every day" guy. I'm a "writer's block doesn't exist" guy.

I'm a "revision is where the work happens" guy.
I'm a "keep your journals" guy.
I'm a "anaphora and repetition" guy.
I'm a "the mundane is sacred" guy. I'm a "write even when no one's reading" guy.

Tech

I'm a "semantic HTML matters" guy.
I'm a "progressive enhancement" guy.
I'm a "accessibility isn't optional" guy.
I'm a "ship less JavaScript" guy.

I'm a "Eleventy and Jekyll" guy.
I'm a "Tailwind CSS" guy.
I'm a "static sites by default" guy.
I'm a "comment your code" guy.
I'm a "version control everything" guy.
I'm a "open source" guy.

I'm a "the platform will die but the work can last" guy.
I'm a "Creative Commons" guy.
I'm a "portable formats" guy.
I'm a "plain text survives" guy.
I'm a "lost data from computer crashes, learned the hard way" guy.
I'm a "RSS feeds aren't dead" guy.

Daily Practice

I'm a "black coffee in my Chemex" guy.
I'm a "video essays on YouTube" guy.
I'm a "literary journalism podcasts" guy.
I'm a "dollar-store coiled notebooks, not Moleskines" guy.
I'm a "take the bus" guy.

I'm a "track everything" guy.
I'm a "systems over willpower" guy.
I'm a "show up even when it's hard" guy.
I'm a "gratitude every morning" guy.
I'm a "Mountain Goats on repeat" guy.
I'm a "slow burns and slice-of-life" guy.
I'm a "elevate the mundane" guy.
I'm a "constantly starting over, wiping the board clean" guy.

Identity

I'm a "Métis but don't pigeonhole me" guy.
I'm a "Queer the subject, not just Queer subjects" guy.
I'm a "disability shapes my values" guy.
I'm a "crooked teeth in a mouth too small" guy.
I'm a "broke down and dropped out" guy.
I'm a "Calgary by choice" guy.
I'm a "Treaty 7 territory" guy.
I'm a "Winnipeg-born, 1997-2003" guy.
I'm a "Martin Avenue, Red River, Henderson Highway" guy.

Work

I'm a "dual mission business model" guy.
I'm a "corporate clients fund community work" guy.
I'm a "pay-what-you-can for those who need it" guy.
I'm a "sustainability over scale" guy.

I'm a "cleaned blood and piss at Sheldon Chumir for $12/hour" guy.
I'm a "cooked at Rotary Flames House children's hospice" guy.
I'm a "wrote Medium articles on breaks between shifts" guy.
I'm a "ate lunch alone in the utility room" guy.
I'm a "introvert but service work taught me people" guy.
I'm a "bank account in overdraft more times than I can count" guy.

Community

I'm a "community over competition" guy.
I'm a "practice the radical work of staying" guy. I'm a "writing collective founder" guy.
I'm a "marginalized voices centered" guy.

I'm a "mentor without gatekeeping" guy.
I'm a "share knowledge freely" guy.
I'm a "build anthologies not hierarchies" guy.

Not A Guy For

I'm not a "waiting for inspiration" guy.
I'm not a "suffering for your art" guy. I'm not a "move fast and break things" guy.
I'm not a "growth at any cost" guy.

I'm a "everything feeds everything else" guy.