Thanks for the comment Neil!

The way I look at it, images and videos are perfectly fine if that is the essence of your thing. The problem I have is adding an unnecessary image that doesn’t add anything at all to the writing.

It did seem somehow important for social media, but I am done with bending over backwards for all that. I just want to write. If people are drawn to visit by the image rather than the writing, they probably aren’t going to like the writing.

The other environmental decisions are little incremental gains. As much as anything, it’s a rubric I’m using to justify my decisions.

On emails, I discovered upon publishing this post that I can select on a per-post basis whether it gets pushed to email subscribers. It will add a little friction each time I post, but it probably gives me the flexibility I need.