What’s a blog for? Who’s it for? Why prioritize this over the million other things I could be doing with my time? The answer comes to me from Paul Graham. As I read the passage below a blog became a requirement not an option.
“Yes, it’s bad. The reason is something I mentioned earlier: writing is thinking. In fact there’s a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing. You can’t make this point better than Leslie Lamport did:
If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.
So a world divided into writes and write-nots is more dangerous than it sounds. It will be a world of thinks and think-nots. I know which half I want to be in, and I bet you do too.”
Like exercise is not a luxury but a fundamental need for a good life, so is writing (a gym for the brain). And so the journey begins. I’ll need to find the right modality, the right program for this new fitness. This blog is for me. To build and maintain the ability to think in this new world. I don’t want to wait for the GLP-1 for critical thought. Let’s do it the “hard” way.
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