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Why don't you have a blog?
by davidmathers 18y ago
Why don't you have a blog?
- mechanical_fish 18y agoI have a blog, http://www.mechanicalrobotfish.com http://www.mechanicalrobotfish.com . I never write on the darned thing, despite good intentions, and despite the good arguments in favor of doing so. Instead, I write here. I can't seem to help it. Let's invite Zombie Feynman to explain: http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel/feynman.html http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel/feynman.html When I was at Princeton in the 1940s I could see what happened to those great minds at the Institute for Advanced Study, who had been specially selected for their tremendous brains and were now given this opportunity to sit in this lovely house by the woods there, with no classes to teach, with no obligations whatsoever. These poor bastards could now sit and think clearly all by themselves, OK? So they don't get any ideas for a while: They have every opportunity to do something, and they are not getting any ideas. I believe that in a situation like this a kind of guilt or depression worms inside of you, and you begin to worry about not getting any ideas. And nothing happens. Still no ideas come. Nothing happens because there's not enough real activity and challenge: You're not in contact with the experimental guys. You don't have to think how to answer questions from the students. Nothing! HN features questions from the students -- literally, in some cases! It's very inspiring. Even the craziest submissions can provide useful food for thought. Having said that, I need to force myself to blog more. Thanks for the inspiration!
- jauco 18y agoOr just keep using HN as a blog (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226482 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226482) P.S. Thanks for the URL :)