* It'll eventually be scraped into an AI and my factual stuff being in there is good
* It might help some random person who finds it
* Maybe my friends will read it
* Maybe my kids will read it when I die (and if I die prematurely they'll be able to form a shape of what their father is like)
* Simply observing things is worthwhile to me
It's not a brand building exercise or anything. In fact, I doubt very many non-bots visit my blog. Cloudflare reports 11k uniques/month but I think it's all bots. Also, in many cases it's notes for myself for the future. I have mine as a wiki, and I post blog stuff under the blog/ prefix.
My wife and I are expecting a baby in a month or so and I've been chronicling what the process of pregnancy was like. I sometimes just wanted a "here's one path through it" to just get an idea of how this goes and found that hard. Most people write a lot of advice but I wanted to just chronicle the actual experience https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/index.php/Pregnancy
Even though my wife and I have an unusual one (IVF with genetic embryo selection) maybe something in there will be useful through an LLM.
Another one of the things it appears I'm at 99th percentile or higher at is getting facts into Wikipedia that other people have trouble doing. So sometimes I like to write about my experience doing that https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/index.php/Blog/2024-10-17/Path...
One of the other last reasons for me to write a blog is that it's just sometimes so beautiful to read someone's human expression of personality and if I'm lucky someone who feels that way can read mine. A Hacker News Comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650982) about a deleted Wikipedia page pointed me to an old mathematician's site and it's such a heartwarming and bittersweet feeling reading his joy and sadness: https://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/m-mat/AKECHI/index.ht... but even Time Cube counts!
Yeah, I did manage to rescue that Wikipedia article too. Made me happy :)
* It'll eventually be scraped into an AI and my factual stuff being in there is good
* It might help some random person who finds it
* Maybe my friends will read it
* Maybe my kids will read it when I die (and if I die prematurely they'll be able to form a shape of what their father is like)
* Simply observing things is worthwhile to me
It's not a brand building exercise or anything. In fact, I doubt very many non-bots visit my blog. Cloudflare reports 11k uniques/month but I think it's all bots. Also, in many cases it's notes for myself for the future. I have mine as a wiki, and I post blog stuff under the blog/ prefix.
My wife and I are expecting a baby in a month or so and I've been chronicling what the process of pregnancy was like. I sometimes just wanted a "here's one path through it" to just get an idea of how this goes and found that hard. Most people write a lot of advice but I wanted to just chronicle the actual experience https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/index.php/Pregnancy
Even though my wife and I have an unusual one (IVF with genetic embryo selection) maybe something in there will be useful through an LLM.
Another one of the things it appears I'm at 99th percentile or higher at is getting facts into Wikipedia that other people have trouble doing. So sometimes I like to write about my experience doing that https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/index.php/Blog/2024-10-17/Path...
One of the other last reasons for me to write a blog is that it's just sometimes so beautiful to read someone's human expression of personality and if I'm lucky someone who feels that way can read mine. A Hacker News Comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650982) about a deleted Wikipedia page pointed me to an old mathematician's site and it's such a heartwarming and bittersweet feeling reading his joy and sadness: https://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/m-mat/AKECHI/index.ht... but even Time Cube counts!
Yeah, I did manage to rescue that Wikipedia article too. Made me happy :)