Why I Blog

I didn’t start blogging to share insights. I started because it was the only way I knew how to learn.

Growing up, I was taught to read, think, and write things down — that was how you made sense of something. You didn’t just absorb it. You wrestled with it, quietly, on paper.

Later, when I got into tech, the same habit stuck. I’d tinker with something, break it, fix it, break it again — and eventually, write about it. Not because I had figured it all out, but because writing helped me see what I had actually understood, and what I was just repeating.

So in that sense, blogging has always been a kind of reflection. Not content. Not performance. Just a record of thinking-in-progress.

Recently, I’ve been thinking about the difference between blogging and writing a book. Books feel finished. Or at least they’re expected to be. There’s an arc. A conclusion. You say what you came to say.

But blogging is different. It doesn’t assume authority. It doesn’t need to resolve.

For me, it’s more like: Here’s something I noticed. I don’t know where it leads yet.

Sometimes people ask, “Aren’t you being preachy?” Especially when the topic sounds reflective or philosophical. I don’t think so. I’m not trying to offer answers. If anything, I’m trying not to rush into them.

I write because a question showed up, and I want to sit with it a bit longer. Writing helps me do that. And if someone else reading it feels the same pause — even briefly — that’s enough.

So why do I blog?

Because I’m still learning.

Because I like seeing how ideas change when they hit the page.

Because the act of writing slows me down just enough to notice what I might’ve missed.

That’s really all.

Trivia - The first blog—at least in a form we’d recognize today—was written by Justin Hall in 1994.