I’ve decided to write more in public again, and Micro.blog feels like the right place to do it.
I’ve long admired what Manton Reece has built here - a durable, independent space for people who still believe in owning their words. I’ve learned a great deal over the years from writers like John Gruber at Daring Fireball and Ben Thompson at Stratechery, and I continue to be inspired and entertained by their discipline of showing up, thinking clearly, and publishing consistently.
This feed is where I’ll share thoughts while they’re still fresh. Hot takes. Short reflections. A photograph that deserves a caption longer than a tweet. Sometimes longer essays too - but without the friction of formatting them over on Squarespace (~ another Gruber influence!) into something they’re not yet ready to be.
Over the past year I took up lifting weights and learned something along the way that applies here. Progress doesn’t come from motivation. It comes from consistency. Turning up when you don’t feel like it. Repeating the reps. Letting compound effort do its work.
Writing, I suspect, is no different.
www.thomaskilroy.com will be home to these stories, hot takes and reflections. while [www.kilroysofkathmandu.com/blog] documents the return of a restaurant I founded in Nepal two decades ago.. and the wider story of food, hospitality and culture of a changing Nepal.
This space is the notebook. The training ground, if you will.
Consistency beats motivation. Consider this post my first rep.