Are there levels of privacy? It’s like, I have been writing this blog for over eight years, which is a long time by most people’s standards, right? I am not going to stop writing it — if for no other reason than it is a daily exercise.
But is this blog relevant to things I do that are not blog-related? Can anyone tell me why it would be? I like to think that this is a place in which I can think out loud, try things on, accept them or reject them. Or just let them sit and ferment. A lot of fermentation has gone on over the years.
Allowed? Or not?
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8 responses to “Fermentation is context”
I like your blog and consider your points. Thanks for posting interesting items. I’m working in an intellectual desert and enjoy the views of smart people.
You brew it, you bottle it, you let it sit for a while, then you open up the bottle and take a sip.
Sometimes it’s great.
Sometimes it needs to sit longer.
Sometimes it’s gone bad and needs to be thrown out.
Fermentation’s like that. So is thinking.
The ideas do need to ferment. Sometimes writing them out speeds/solidifies the process.
It’s your blog, you can decide how much or how little “fermentation” you want.
Spill it! The occasional diversion or distraction would add character, a new dynamic to the blog.
Allowed. Unless you are looking for a job with someone whose politics don’t quite agree.
Pretty much like facebook, twitter, or, in the old days, neighborhood gossip.
Sorry. But people’s perceptions of your abilities are based on what you say and do.
Nothing has changed except the scope. Neighborhood nowadays is a LOT bigger than it was in the days before personal computers. (Or cellphones, ipads, ipods, android smartphones, etc.)
Note I didn’t say Internet. I had a worldwide reputation on Fidonet before the Internet became really public… lol. I learned.
Hmmm…
I am always willing to discuss the specifics of anything I have said, and I am always willing to defend what I have written. But a general criticism (say, that this blog is “crazy”) is tough to pinpoint, and impossible to address. I’m inclined to just plead guilty to insanity and move on.
I don’t know if it (your blogging) is pertinent to your life outside blogging (I suspect it is, just as my occasional talking to myself clarifies my own thoughts), but your fermentation(s) occasionally spawn a little yeast, causing fermentation for (to?) me. And that’s why I read you.
Thanks, Eric.