Why?
Why do I write and why do you receive these!
Last Saturday, I was hanging out with a few friends and playing silly games, as one does. My friend S asked me a question (as a part of the game), “What is giving you a high these days?” and my immediate response was, “My weekly substack dispatches.” Another friend K commented, KC is now going to ask everyone to 'Like, Share and Subscribe’, and well, I didn’t. In this week’s stack, I wanted to wonder aloud, Why? Why am I writing here and why didn’t I er.. promote?!
More than a decade and a half ago, way back during my engineering years and in the age of slow internet, there was a thing called blogspot. I would stumble on so many fun blogs there and got lost on so many evenings just trying to read them all. These blogs were not written by established authors, just some common folk having fun on the web through their words. I wanted one for myself, I wanted to be one of those people. A desire to write the perfect blog held me from writing anything. I even created a couple of blogs in the last decade along the way, one died, other lies dormant, and now this substack is the latest venture!
Writing was fun to begin with. A way of expression, sometimes joy and sometimes even catharsis too. As a strong user of a mashup of a daily journal and morning pages, writing was a way to process and organise thoughts. After reading Paul Graham’s essays and Patrick Collison’s emphasis on writing culture, I now strongly believe that writing is a way to think, as good a way as it can be. Another dimension fit into place as I heard Tyler Cowen talk about writing daily or Visakan Veerasamy talk about writing 1000 essays. I internalised that perfect is the enemy of good and consistency is it’s own art. There in lies my why - this blog is my way to process and think aloud on the things around, the commitment to weekly dispatches is a commitment to be consistent.
P.S:
We are moving to Tuesdays!
Today’s existential post doesn’t accompany the usual links or photo of the week, normal service will resume from next week.
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Until next time!