Here is a blog, for some reason.
I don't know exactly why I'm bothering with this, but here I am bothering with it. I mean, I guess I kind of know: every now and then I bump up against an idea that doesn't really work in short form, and for a while I haven't really had a place to put those ideas. I posted a couple things to Medium over the years, and even made a long post (ahem, an “article”) on LinkedIn when I was punchy, but none of those were the right audience.
Aside from not having a place to put my more unwieldy thoughts, perhaps the bigger struggle for me is the fact I assume nobody will read them. You can add to that a ruthless tendency to delete everything and start over — or, more commonly, to delete everything and stop there. Or to delete the idea before I even start putting it down, because I don't think I'll ever be able to edit it into something I'd want people to read.
Homer Simpson has wise words for all of us: “Never try.”
Anyway, for a while now it's felt like time to have a place to put things that isn't behind somebody else's paywall. I can't say how much I'm actually going to put here, but this is now that place. I've liberated a few things I've written over the past few years from other sites and reposted them here, and if I manage to get anything past my worst critic (me), this is where I'll put it.