I decided to start this blog with a few outcomes in mind. Some are selfish: to get myself to write, to allow myself to think through what I’m reading, and to encourage myself to bring other people’s ideas together in my own mind.
This is public because I want someone to read it, because if someone reads it then writing feels more like doing something than nothing (my first post is on why this might be futile).
I want to keep the posts short and concise, mostly to practice the discipline and to make it more likely that someone will finish reading one.
If, as I am, you are pretentious enough to write a blog, you must feel that you have an answer to the question “why should anyone listen to me?”.
I’ll let you know if I ever find an answer to that!