Why would I start a blog?

I started this blog after being inspired. Reading "Show your work" by Austin Kleon - a book recommended highly by Ali Abdaal, a YouTube who is now well-known for his productivity video's on youtube.

The notion here is that you're only a beginner once, and documenting your journey to where you're going is as important, if not more important, than your destination itself.

I suck  at writing, but I need you to read this anyway

There, I said it. I suck at writing, and I want to get better at it.

But I don't suck at computer stuff. And I mean that in the broadest sense you could think of. I grew up when computers became a thing, and learnt everything about computers I could fit into my tiny little primate brain at that time.

And now I want to share that knowledge with you, dear reader. And in order to share that knowledge I lack a certain skill. That skill is writing well.

So if you're like me, and you love computers but don't know where to 'focus' – just bare with me and I'll take you with me into the wonderful magical world of computers using my very best letter arrangements.

You need to learn about computers, right now

The more advanced technology becomes, the harder it becomes to understand for someone who isn't actively tracking advancements in that technological space.

And the last thing we should want, as human beings, is to rely on things that are like magic to us.

I'm all for the concept of magic as a means to be amazed, but I don't like the concept as magic as something that seems so complex that "We'd best leave it to the wizard" because it is beyond the grasp of an ordinary person to understand.

This form of elitism is where superfluous neologisms get created to cover up the underlying simplicity of things. Marketing speak, newspeak. Use any of it's names - language used to make you think you should revere this person as their bombastic presense, loud voice and overwhelming pseudo-jargon related to the topic surely indicates competence and is in no way related to the Dunning-Kruger effect.

It's all about how you explain things

I'm a big fan of Richard Feynmann's attitude towards explaining: If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it enough.

And understanding things. Truly understanding anything is just about exploring and learning about something new in a way that it connects with the concepts and knowledge about reality you already have.

So whilst I am nowhere near the narrative genius Feynmann was, I'd still like to give it my best shot in my upcoming posts.