Why make blog posts? Pt. 2
OK, well I committed to part 2, so here I am. Hi. I don't want to be doing this. I said I would do "reasons" last week and "intentions" this week but I'd rather just write some things and not think about what those words mean.
- I'm committed to posting once per week, on Wednesday.
- I intend to use this as a place to work through my thoughts. I do this in private notes and my private brain, but there's something about public exposure that adds extra motivation to package things up nicely. Almost like the feeling of teaching something vs learning something. On the flip side there is also the pressure to over-explain things to avoid possible criticism, so I imagine striking that balance will be one of the major challenges I'll face.
- Having my thoughts down on paper in a semi-nice way will give me an easy reference to look back on for things I've cared enough to write about. The fact that this takes effort will naturally select for things I care about because otherwise it would not be sustainable. So, cool, usually this stuff gets stuffed in a note to be lost to the cold dark corners of my cloud storage.
- The rules on this blog are as loose as possible. Let it find out what it wants to be and who it wants to be for. If a blog is a means to an end for a specific career then there is great benefit to be had from limiting the scope and targeting an audience. I just want to share more and write more, so whatever form that takes is cool with me. I imagine I'll prefer writing about things I think are more universal though, rather than say a super technical how-to article about a niche software.
- The current AI revolution makes this exercise more appealing to me. I think AI brings many exciting benefits, but I do feel a compulsion to rebel a little bit by writing a little more humanly. "Look what I can do."
- This will make me a better writer. That's exciting. Writing is an incredibly useful and beautiful skill.
- I want to balance comfort and uncertainty. Sugar and medicine.