Why Blog

03-31-2025

Lately, I've been appreciating writing as a means of processing the many thoughts in my head. It's therapeutic because it brings a semblance of order to the mess in my mind. I've usually got so many thoughts in my head that I can't process them without some kind of external tool. I've been jotting down my thoughts in my personal notes for a while and it has helped a lot. Not every thought is worth creating into a post, but some are definitely worth exploring further. I want to have this space be a safe and expectation-free place to explore these thoughts further.

I'm not expecting any or much traffic to this blog. However, I'm not worried if no one reads anything I post here. Although I'd be excited for anyone to stumble upon my blog and find something interesting, the main purpose is for myself. I don't have any external expectations, like I did in my past blogs.

This is actually my third or fourth attempt at blogging. I'm not even counting how many times I've created my own blogging system without even writing a single post in it, which I recently learned plagues many web developers like myself. Naturally, I wrote about web development in those past blogs. I was never able to keep the habit of writing on them though.

I believe part of why I would always lose steam on writing for those blogs is because I felt like I should be doing it as part of the "You should blog! Get noticed! Build career capital!" ethos. It wasn't because I really wanted to do it. Though I had convinced myself that I did want to. To be clear, this messaging isn't necessarily bad. It has definitely worked for plenty of folks. I, however, just wasn't able to consistently write. My motivation would always fizzle out after a few days of launching my shiny new blog. Even trying to keep a writing schedule didn't work because at a certain point it would feel like a chore that I didn't want to do.

Here I am giving blogging another go. What's different this time is that I'm making the conscious decision write about any topic I'm thinking about. I want to be able to follow any thought stream in my head, not just the web development ones. Importantly, I don't want there to be any external expectations on the things I write. I simply want to write for my self satisfaction.

I hope to write a little bit every day, though I won't hold myself to it strictly so that things are kept casual and stress free. I won't publish every day, but will jot some thoughts down in post drafts. Once enough thoughts on a post crystalize, I'll publish.

I already have a laundry list of topics that I want to write about and I'm excited to go on this writing journey.