I used to feel like I "had to blog" and sort of forced myself to come up with topics and thoughts on those topics. I didn't enjoy the exercise. Lately though, I

I used to feel like I "had to blog" and sort of forced myself to come up with topics and thoughts on those topics. I didn't enjoy the exercise. Lately though, I've used my blog to publish essays describing a view of the world that I'm trying to make happen through a personal project, as well as updates on how that project is going. It's been really useful to be able to share a link explaining my thoughts with new people, and it's always exciting when someone, unprompted, shares a link to one of my posts, or starts a conversation with me because of them.