Well...here I am.
It seems pretty clear that starting a blog can be a lonely process. You find yourself aimlessly floating through space hoping someone will notice you (kudos if you get the Firefly reference from above). And even if someone does, there is no guarantee that you will ever rise above obscurity.
But the real point of a blog is not the prospect of someday having thousands of followers(although who doesn't want that), but the simple need to write. The need to effectively and elegantly express ideas, opinions and share information.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, a world renowned astrophysicist and science educator, stated in a recent interview:
So my advice to someone who wanted to be a science communicator is, you write. Writing is the excuse you can give yourself to organize ideas in coherent sentences in ways that make sense not only word to word, but sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph. And that is the art of communication, being clear and succinct. And the proving ground for that is writing.
http://www.pointofinquiry.org/neil_degrasse_tyson_communicating_science/
It is clear at this point in my life that I cannot continue not writing. Plus it gives me the chance to combat irrationality and, as James Randi would say, "Woo woo".
"Does that seem right to you?"
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