“I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn’t write them down I should probably forget all about them.” Cecily Cardew, The Importance of Being Ernest, by Oscar Wilde.
Why start a blog in 2019? Aren’t there enough blogs out there? These are the questions I have asked myself before starting this endeavor. The truth is this blog is for me more than it is for anyone else. I enjoy writing. It has not always been this way. When I was at Lakeland High School and Furman University, I did not enjoy writing. The reason was never that I did not enjoy the writing–it was the ambiguity of grading that I did not enjoy.
Leonardo Da Vinci said, “there is no certainty in sciences where mathematics cannot be applied.” This is the reason I was always drawn to math and science. There was typically an answer (at least in the early courses). I liked taking tests and knowing if I got the right answer that I would get full credit.
Lately, I have enjoyed writing. I have enjoyed putting my thoughts down on paper and have been pretty diligent over the past year about keeping a journal. At first, I was somewhat inspired by Walter Isaacson’s biography of Leonardo Da Vinci who kept so many interesting hand written journals, but I had to quickly abandon the hand written journal in favor of an electronic journal.
In his book, Well-Designed, Jon Kolko, describing strategy says, “if you don’t write it down, there’s little chance that anyone will remember it, believe in it, or act on it.” I primarily plan to write these posts for myself, but if someone else can learn something, or be inspired from them, why not share them? I have heard Jordan Harbinger, podcast host of The Jordan Harbinger Show, say that when you start a podcast it should be done as if no one will ever listen to it. I am taking that approach with my blog as well, but if someone reads it and can get something out of it, then why not?