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.

So let's see how this goes!