Getting unstuck
I'm going to start writing my half-baked ideas. Hope you don't mind.
I did a really good job writing on this site for a whole week, but then my mind candy fast officially ended, and I stopped. Then things changed politically in the USA, and I wanted to write about some topics relating to that, but the academic part of me feels like anything I write is incomplete if every argument isn't backed up with sources, data, or rigorous experimentation. So I got stuck. I have 5-10 drafts or draft ideas that are currently in limbo because I feel like I'm not expert enough to share my opinions, or that my thoughts aren't thought through enough to share yet.

But this isn't a scientific journal, this is my website. My disclaimer on the homepage (above) clearly states that I don't know anything. My understanding of the world is based on my own study and experiences, and while I would love to know everything about everything, I don't. But I do want to share my ideas and opinions here, if for no other reason than that writing them out can help me clarify my own understanding of some topics.
Last week I read some advice on starting a blog, and I think it freed me a little bit mentally from the trap I was in. A couple key snippets:
don’t think too much about how it’s supposed to be done, what others are doing, or what the conventions demand
Write in a way that lets you refine your thoughts about the things that matter.
a blog is a tiny internet house where you decide the norms. And since there are already countless places where you can't be yourself, there is no need to build another one of those.
So I'm going to try to make this my Internet house where I can be myself. I'll share things I'm thinking about, and things I'm interested in. If you're not interested, I'm going to try to be okay with that.
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