It's awfully quiet around here

Now that I’ve built this basic blogging platform, my website is nagging me all the time with the message I configured it with: “It’s awfully quiet around here. Try writing something!”. For a while, I’ve liked the notion of starting a blog, but I usually feel like something is holding me back.

It seems almost presumptuous to write something, when so many things have already been said. It feels too much like a droning monologue. I stare blankly at the page (well, screen) while searching for something worth saying.

I think my focus is wrong.

There’s an xkcd comic that I rather like, where one of the characters remarks:

We’re these unbelievably complicated brains drifting through a void, trying in vain to connect with one another by blindly flinging words out into the darkness.

Rather than focusing on what I’m saying today, I want to improve my flinging-words-into-the-darkness skills. There’s a lot of darkness out there, and so many of the arguments I see seem to stem from disconnection. People are yelling and fuming and so very alone.

I want to be more open. Right now, that means openly sharing my half-baked emotions regarding this. Other days, perhaps openness will mean sharing some really interesting tech thing I just discovered.

All that to say: I don’t really care about content right now. I don’t care if the world is interested in what I have to say; I’m interested in the world, and so I’m going to fling words into the darkness. Silly words, frightened words, euphoric words. Maybe even some compound words.

So, reader, hello. And goodbye for now.