Hello Again

I decided it might be good for me to keep a blog.

I've done this a few times in the past, and (spoiler alert) it has usually tapered off after a while. Part of that is that I tend to write a lot and most people don't have much patience for reading. It's entirely possible that I have some form of hypergraphia. So I write for other people, they don't read it, and so after a while I lapse into a hurt silence.

I've also tried the "write for yourself" thing a time or two. The problem is that I don't particularly enjoy writing for myself. I don't normally find it particularly fulfilling. Write about what? Well, I'm exhausted enough by living through politics and current events; I don't necessarily want to write about it. I don't feel qualified to write non-fiction and I'm not sufficiently inspired to write fiction.

But, nevertheless, here I am thinking it might be good to keep a blog, and the reason is simple: I think it might be a good way to improve my self-education.

While I'm an autodidact, like most other geeks, I never got along well with technical books. I tended to learn by trial and error, cobbling together snippets from free websites and blogs, etc. When I was young, I tended to blame this on poverty. Now that I'm a well-compensated adult, I can afford technical books, but I still tend to struggle with reading them. I blame neurodivergence. Anyway, I'm hoping that a blog will help me structure and retain more of the information that I read.

I'm learning French, and I realized earlier today while responding to a comment that my actual production of written French is rather limited. I practice listening a lot, and I'm starting to practice reading a decent amount (I think it's my strongest area), but I'm not actually writing much. So I've forked my blog entries and will try to write an entry per day en français.

So let's see how this goes!