| I use blogging to achieve a few goals of mine: * Solidify my knowledge in a given topic (the best way to find out how well you really know something is to try to teach it) * Improve at technical writing * Create reference material that will be useful for myself (which may be useful to other people) While it’s certainly nice to see that others visit my sites, it’s not the primary reason that I continue to produce content. However, knowing that it’s public, even if it’s possible that nobody will see it forces me to a higher standard. I also just happen to enjoy writing about things I am passionate about, after thinking writing wasn’t for me after working on countless overly restrictive school essays. edit: I also use it in an attempt to create the resources I wish I had when I was researching something for the first time. Many topics I find myself interested in can be hard to approach due to requiring some area of math I am not familiar with, but I feel I can explain in a simpler way compared to the encyclopedic descriptions, lecture notes, etc available online which assume some level of domain knowledge. |