For several months now, I’ve been looking for a reason to get this blog going.
I’ve fooled around with a few posts in the past, knowing that I wanted to write, but not sure about what. I knew the answer wasn’t vegetarian running, since I’ve got another blog about that. But nothing seemed quite right.
Finally, I’ve got something. A reason to start.
Actually, two:
1. I’m a member of Leo Babauta’s Sea Change program, where we develop a new habit each month. This month’s habit is writing, something that I’ve wanted to get in the routine of doing daily for just about a year now, but haven’t made stick.
2. I’ve started taking bluegrass guitar lessons, and gone a bit farther by breaking out the violin that I started learning on but haven’t picked up in 5 or 6 years. The mountain folk would call it a fiddle, actually, and since bluegrass is what has motivated me to do it, I guess I should call it that too.
Don’t worry — Appalachian guitar and fiddle aren’t what I’m planning on writing about. Instead, I want to start with learning — or rather, meta-learning.
As I type these words, I know this isn’t a subject I’ll be able to write more than a few posts about, but it’s a place to start. Perhaps I’ll record a few “before” videos — my current fiddle skills are worth a chuckle, at the very least — then talk about how I’m using meta-learning techniques to speed myself along the learning curve, with occasional video updates to show you how I’m progressing.
Again, this isn’t something I know enough about to write much (then again, 4 years and 500 blog posts later, I think I might have thought the same about going vegetarian). My plan is to start with meta-learning as a way to get the ball rolling, and very quickly move into some (hopefully) interesting mix of business, science, habits, psychology, and who knows what else.
I’m aiming to write every single day, with intent to publish. That doesn’t mean I’ll publish a new post every day, nor will everything be published here (often my writing will be for No Meat Athlete). But I am looking at this personal blog as a “sandbox” of sorts, so I do expect that this is where most of my writings will end up.
Should be fun.