Why Do This

There’s something about choosing the medium of writing our thoughts that is similar to the tools a craftsman uses to hone his craft. It’s not the spontaneous urge to regurgitate our ideas, but rather a long, slow and deliberate process of repetitive and consistent effort to improve something over time.

Our ability to formulate and articulate the thoughts and ideas in the elusive still and quiet part of our mind is this generation’s great battlefront, being continuously assaulted from all sides by the loud incitement of rage, excitement, indignation and othering in the Skinner Box we find ourselves shackled within.

Whether its vim or emacs, LaTeX or groff, Jekyll or Hugo, this blog is an attempt to strive towards something a bit more difficult, with the hope that it unravels my ability to produce thoughts that are that bit more valuable.

Here in this space, hidden in plain sight from the would-be gatekeepers of thought, I intend to write about what I have experienced and what I have learned so that it may help those who read it. Without the substacks, the obnoxious ads and the cookie popups, this reminds me more of what the Internet was promised to be rather than what it has become today.