The Reasons for Putting My Knowledge on a Blog

Hello, future subscriber. So it's past the year 2020 and you are discovering this blog for the first time. This blog has thousands, or perhaps hundreds of thousands of posts, and you aren't sure where to start. Allow me to help. This is the first post you should read (that is, if I haven't in subsequent years put up a post titled "read this first" or some such nonsense). If, on the other hand, you're reading this next Tuesday, and this is still the only post I've put up, you should probably also start here, although I'd imagine you won't be as confused as our future friend with the jetpack and flying car.

You may wonder what the purpose of this blog is, and why you should read it. Allow me to begin by saying that I am starting this blog for purely selfish reasons, and I don't really give a damn whether you read it or not*, but as this is a public blog, you are free to do so. The purpose of this blog is fourfold. Purpose one is to have a place to record things that I learn about how to live life better, for future review when I forget what the hell I'm doing. The second purpose is that I've recently come into possession of a very small human who looks a lot like me, only with different genitals. Since she apparently has no clue how to be a human, I thought that I would create a bit of a how-to, so that I won't have to do much real parenting, and will therefore be free to continue my life of cocaine fueled orgies solitude, undisturbed in my search for enlightenment. Purpose three is that several people, such as my brother, his wife, my mother, and other people who love me for some reason but wouldn't know good writing if it smashed them in the face with the first volume of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, have told me that I write well. These same people have told me that they would like me to do more writing, quit my dayjob, and be forced into a life of abject poverty, subsisting on only Maruchan ramen and grocery store brand cola. Since I am a member of the 1% (not the top 1% in income, but the people who actually like their jobs), I thought that instead of being a full time writer, I could appease my family by starting a blog, and gently explaining to them that one can't make a living with only 27 pageviews (18 from my brother's wife, and 9 from me previewing my own posts). The fourth and final purpose of this blog is to practice my writing, so that one day I can trick OTHER people into thinking that I'm a good writer.

If you haven't guessed already, the blog will be one part thoughts on best practice for life (time management, efficiency, kicking bad habits), one part lessons from daily life (like a diary, but only the good parts), and one part success book motivation ("I challenge you to not only read this entire blog, but to give me all of your money as well"). In addition, it will all be written in the tone of a 14 year old boy who thinks no one understands him. I'll try to avoid religion and politics for the most part, but if I do dabble, hopefully I'll figure out how 'tags' work so no one has to read those posts against their will.

So, here goes nothing! Wish me luck.



*thank you very much