If your old posts make you cringe, congratulations. That’s what growth looks like from the outside.

The cringe is a measurement. It means the person who wrote that and the person reading it now have different taste, different judgment, maybe different values, and the gap between them is the distance you covered. If those posts still seemed perfect you would have learned nothing in the meantime. The feeling is uncomfortable and it is also evidence.

You can delete them or leave them, and either is fine. What is worth doing is naming what specifically makes you wince now, because that names what changed in you. Then assume the same thing is true of this year, and hold today’s certainties a little more loosely.