You ever notice how much I overuse "Anyway." as a transition?
It's a habit from texting. I do that because I can't count the number of times I've miscommunicated because someone was still on the previous conversation topic and too many pronouns were going around. Simple fix, just call out when the topic shifts.
It's especially bad in asynchronous communication where time is used as a proxy for topic change. For me, the most common case is that I need to send someone something, open up messages, then see there's something unrelated I need to reply to. I can send both and have everything handled, but it might be unclear which is which, or it could imply an association between the two topics which I didn't mean.
Email gets around this with subject lines, some messaging apps get around it with replies and threads. But when there's ambiguity, it's easier to explicitly break the subject.
I use "Anyway" here to cut off tangents, because things are always at least partially connected in a blog post. For entirely unrelated topics, you'll want to use something else, and adapt to the formality of the conversation as well. Don't fuss over it, as long as it's clear there's some kind of divide it'll do.
Anyway.
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Nightly Notes
Crisis averted. It was pretty funny in retrospect, it really was all my fault.
Time to rest.
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