The thing about having a blog for 24 years at the same domain name (and 17 years of podcasting) is that it should be clear what I believe in by now. I’ve never deleted or significantly edited a post. My life and work are either a very long con, plotted out half my life ago, or the posts are just plainly what they are.
This is also why I’m happy to let AI bots crawl my site. Asking AI for a summary of me is fascinating and largely correct. I asked ChatGPT (in a private browser window) and it came up with this:
Some people prefer a quieter web presence and I totally get that too. I very rarely blog about my family, preferring to keep those thoughts to a private journal. But you really can’t beat a blog for slowly building an online record over years and decades.
I love discovering a blog and realizing I can wander through the archive of older posts. In the era of information overload and slop, that kind of consistency is harder to fake.
Haven’t started a blog yet? Today is a perfect day to begin.
