…the post-a-day thing, I mean.

I have a confession: I’m a hermit. Not in the physical world–I love people in the physical world. But online, I’m easily overwhelmed. I’ve thought about why. In some ways, it’s because I hyper-focus on things: what I’m doing right now is the ONLY THING. I’ll start on something, look up, and realize I’ve missed several meals. Even with the haiku trick, I started missing days.

That plays into the second reason: there’s so much out here in the Interwebs. It reminds me working on school essays as a kid. Start the paper. Look up a fact about James Garfield. See that the next page has a picture of a cool-looking fish (the gar-fish, if you’re wondering). Flip to the section on North American wildlife. Learn many things. Don’t finish the essay. Trust me, even with a NON-wiki’d pedia, it was pretty easy.

The third reason? The Internet lets me see how many smart people there are in the world who’re already saying what I could say, and usually better. I feel sad that I don’t have such wonderful, clear, clever things to say. “Today, I re-wrote a bunch of corporate marketing content from gibberish all the way up to pablum!” Just not that exciting to share.

But that’s a crummy way to think about things. Not that any of this isn’t true–there are always better writers out there. But that’s no reason to shut up. And one of the best ways to help get a point across is to share it and boost the signal, adding to it if you can.

So, you know what? The Hell with that. Don’t expect clockwork posts from me. Don’t expect stunning repartee in every post. But when I post, it’s because I have something I think is worth saying, or worth sharing, or it’s something I personally want to keep track of. I promise I’ll never torment you with pictures of what I ate for lunch.

Unless it’s frozen mammoth meat.