My first post

Hello! This is my first blog post.

Honestly, I am surprised too. I managed to get the site live almost a full month earlier than I expected. Perhaps readers who know me will not be surprised: once I decide to begin, I tend to speed up.

Building a personal blog was not effortless. It took me almost five hours to get it running. I did not ask anyone else for help—unless AI counts as someone. The afternoon also cost me three large coffees: an iced Americano, an iced latte, and a hot latte. I drank a similar amount last weekend, but today they felt earned.

Some longtime readers may remember that I had a personal website years ago. It was slow and unreliable, hardly a place to keep writing over the long term. That experience gave me a clearer aim: I needed a site that was faster, steadier, and more under my control, where I could write for years and take my public work more seriously.

So mantou-blog.pages.dev was born.

For me, it means something simple and important:

Our thoughts finally have time, ownership, and structure.

I want to end this first post with a line from the Bible:

I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept making it grow.¹