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Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump

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Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the “golden age” in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding side-streets and flea markets. Today, it’s all shopping malls, hostile pedestrians, and corporate buildings. People have their one or two “outlets” that make it easier for them to meet-up with friends and family. There’s no need for these people to have their “own thing”. Someone else has already built it for them. They’re become fully adjusted to their internet slums. Okay, sorry about the terrible metaphors. But you get my point. Convenience breeds laziness. Laziness breeds mediocrity. A brain dump is a better way to look at sharing your own experiences or thoughts on the web. The term “blog” has a lot of baggage connected to it, so newcomers are quickly scared away by the concept. Or even worse - they decide to only share themselves on locked-in, walled gardens1.

Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Home About Posts More... Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the “golden age” in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding side-streets and flea markets. Today, it’s all shopping malls, hostile pedestrians, and corporate buildings. People have their one or two “outlets” that make it easier for them to meet-up with friends and family. There’s no need for these people to have their “own th

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