Sixty posts. Eight weeks. Shadow proxies to GGX. Here's what I can say now that I couldn't say on Day 1.
What 60 days produced
The output: 60 posts across four blocks. Pipelines & Industry, Rendering & Lighting, Tools & Pipelines, and Math, Code & Algorithms. Plus a closing synthesis week. The series moved from practical and accessible toward increasingly technical. That arc wasn't entirely planned. It followed what I was genuinely trying to understand.
The less obvious output is what it did to how I think. Daily posting creates a specific kind of pressure, not deadline pressure, but a quieter ongoing one. The decision to post every day becomes the default, and the question shifts from "should I write today" to "what am I writing today". That distinction matters.
What changed
Showing your knowledge publicly, including where it limits, is very daunting. I went in not trying to put pressure on hitting the widest possible audience. That was the right call for me. It kept me writing toward depth rather than reach, and the posts that went deep tended to find the right readers anyway.
The other shift was more internal. Writing to explain something forces a kind of precision that just doing the work doesn't. You find out quickly which parts of your understanding are solid and which were always a bit assumed. That's an uncomfortable thing to discover in public, and also the most useful part of the exercise.
What's next
I'm not sure yet and that is okay. One thing I want to do is use this series to figure out what I actually want to do next in my career, in what I build toward.
Sixty posts across this range of topics has been a kind of audit: what I know deeply, where I'm still working things out, and what I find genuinely interesting versus what I think I'm supposed to find interesting. That's a useful insight. I want to sit with it before committing to a direction.
The industry has changed too. When I graduated, companies flew candidates out to interview. I did an art test for a studio abroad early in my career, they loved it, offered to fly me in, then gave the role to an internal hire two days before I was supposed to travel. That kind of thing stings differently when you're just starting out and haven't built up the scar tissue yet.
What's interesting is that version of events barely exists anymore. Everything is digital. That's easier for everyone, practically. But it also means a studio can run a hundred candidates in parallel with no real commitment to any of them. The friction on their side has dropped to zero. The cost on the candidate's side while the art tests, the preparation, the emotional investment hasn't changed. Worth keeping in mind when deciding how much energy to put into a process that hasn't committed to anything.
Whatever comes next will be slower. Sixty posts in sixty days was sustainable but not comfortable. The right cadence is probably fewer posts, more time per post, and a tighter scope.
But that is a future problem. For now: sixty posts, eight weeks, done.
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