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Do this enough and you get a superpower (or at least a neat party trick): you can translate ideas across field boundaries and find really interesting links between subjects. Even just observing that some idea X has been discovered by fields A and B is, I think, really valuable, because so few people cross subject boundaries, and there are often wide terminology gaps that prevent ideas from cross pollinating.

> I like writing and can imagine having some sort of blog, but that's seems so cliche?

Writing on blogs might be commonplace. Good writing is not. Spend a little time thinking about writing well and you'll be ahead of the crowd.

That said, I don't think you should worry too much about how other people will see your writing. I treat my blog as a sort of public notebook. The articles are primarily for me; they are what I'd want to have read if I hadn't done the research myself, and/or a year later when I've forgotten everything. That takes off the pressure to be perfectly original or polished.