For years, I filled physical journals and notepads with fragments of ideas, plans, notes, and systems. Eventually I moved into digital tools—Obsidian, structured note-taking, databases—but even that didn’t fully solve the problem. I wasn’t just trying to store information. I was trying to build continuity.
For a while, brendonbaugh.com was a simple place to post quick case studies and project manifestos. It worked, but it wasn’t enough. I wanted something more durable. A place I could return to years from now and see the actual progression of my life, my thinking, and my work—not scattered across lost notebooks, dead apps, or abandoned platforms.
I’ve lost too many notes. Too many notebooks. Too many versions of myself stored in systems that don’t last.
So I stopped thinking about the site as a “blog” and started treating it like infrastructure.
I didn’t want a flashy, over-designed website built around performance or aesthetics. I didn’t want complexity. I didn’t want backend friction. I wanted a space that’s simple, readable, and built for accumulation. A system that holds data, progress, thinking, and work over time.
That’s what this is now.
brendonbaugh.com isn’t designed to impress. It’s designed to persist.
When you land here, I want it to feel like finding an old notebook years later—something quiet, structured, and honest. A place where it’s easy to see what I was working on, what I was building, what I was struggling with, and how I changed.
This isn’t content.
It’s record-keeping.
It’s documentation.
It’s continuity.
Mostly, it’s for me—but if others find something useful in it, that’s a bonus.