Three Answers (with Helpful Labels!):1. Social/Practical: It can help you stay in contact with friends and family.
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2. Intellectual/Artistic: It can help you develop thoughts and observations that might otherwise remain shapeless and half-formed.*
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3. Psychological/Archival: It can help you notice how the world and your views about it change (or don’t change) over time.*
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If I’ve learned one thing about a blog, it is that long entries can be daunting. So after writing a long answer to the question posed in the title of this post, I decided to export the highlights into a shorter, more reader-friendly post (you’ve in it right now; how’s it going?). I invite readers interested in something more than a fast-food snack answer to this question—and my motives for considering the question in the first place—to check out the multi-course sit-down dinner version below.
If I’ve learned one thing about a blog, it is that long entries can be daunting. So after writing a long answer to the question posed in the title of this post, I decided to export the highlights into a shorter, more reader-friendly post (you’ve in it right now; how’s it going?). I invite readers interested in something more than a fast-food snack answer to this question—and my motives for considering the question in the first place—to check out the multi-course sit-down dinner version below.
4 comments:
Waiter, Ohhh Waiter. Please give me the multi-course sit-down dinner version.
As for theses three, I think I mainly use number 1, occassionally take advantage of number two, though I rarely sit down without the fully formed idea already, and I have not yet used number 3.
I wouldn’t say I tend to sit down with a fully formed idea, either, but the more I do this, the more I find myself thinking about what I will say on my blog. Sometimes, such thinking becomes thought-shaping. Sometimes the thought-shaping takes place as I write.
Give me Number 1 as a very, very heavy favorite, having never ever been an intellectual in thought, deed, or action (although I used to wish so hard to be ((considered one if not actually in fact)). I am grateful for the passage of that futile hope, wish, desire.
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