Yes, this is a “me” post. But I’m pretty sure this is only the #2 “me” post out of 350-and-whatever, so I’m not apologizing.
I haven’t always blogged every day. For the first 8-10 months of this blog I posted 5 times a week. For a while I didn’t post at all. But now, I post every day. It’s not about quantity in the sense that I think more posts will make this blog better. And it’s certainly not about quality because I know that the quality here definitely suffers at the hands of quantity.
It’s about having a constant regrounding in personal perspective. Each day, we go about our personal and professional lives and are constantly ingesting, digesting, and regurgitating information in confined systems and environments. We learn about something at work, use it to make a decision at work, watch what happens because of that decision at work, and then reassess…at work. The process from ingestion to application is rapid and forceful. Nothing settles and we rarely take a step back.
Blogging offers the opportunity to assess an intellectual landscape objectively and from a distance without the confines of a project or objective. This luxury, in turn, allows what we have ingested (and will ingest in the future) to be absorbed and reallocated more effectively and efficiently. Posting 7 times a week gives you 7 opportunities to take advantage of this perspective.
