Blog.init

In the ever long quest to better myself, I’ve decided to start personal blog.

Why Blog?

When thinking about starting a blog, I could think of more reasons to not create one. This list is not at all inclusive or logical, but here’s a bit of where my mind was.

• Too many damn options
  • Creating a personal blog is easier than ever these days, but the problem I faced was to find a platform that hit all of my requirements. A few platforms I looked into: Wordpress, Ghost, Medium, GitHub Pages
• To create a quality blog I’d need to be a good writer
  • …with good ideas
  • Do I have those?
• Everyone else is doing it
  • Not that I’m claiming to be a hipster or anything, I just couldn’t think of any educational value I’d add to the blogosphere that people weren’t doing already.

So what changed?

I was having a conversation with someone I deeply admire the other day. He mentioned that I shouldn’t view blogging as a chore, instead I should treat it as a thought exercise. I thought a lot about that. I had spent so much time thinking of the negatives, that I hadn’t really considered the pros I could get from blogging. The ability to help others, to learn, to interact; these greatly outweigh the cons. I’m excited to see where this goes. Join me.