Why I Started Writing

Writing is powerful. I have believed this for a while, but I kept putting off doing it myself.

This is me finally doing it.

What I actually do

I read. Not in a disciplined, one-subject-at-a-time way — more like a scattered, follow-your-curiosity kind of way. Some days I read something genuinely useful. Other days it is a random article about how container shipping changed the world, or why a particular company failed, or how a specific algorithm works. Not every day is productive reading. But most days, I read something.

The problem is that reading without writing is like pouring water into a leaky bucket. You take something in, feel like you understand it, and then a few weeks later you cannot quite reconstruct the idea anymore. The shape of it is there but the substance is gone.

Why writing, specifically

When I write something down, I think more clearly about it. The act of forming sentences exposes the gaps — the places where I assumed I understood the connection but actually just skipped over it. You cannot skip over things when you are writing. The blank page does not let you.

I also learn better when I write. Something about having to explain an idea, even just to a hypothetical reader, forces a level of engagement that passive reading does not.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough yet.

What this blog is

Organised thinking. That is really all it is. A place to take the scattered things I read and learn, and work through them until they make sense to me.

If someone else reads something here and finds it useful — that would be genuinely great. Not the primary goal, but a very good outcome. Cherry on the cake, as they say.

The posts will be short. The topics will be whatever I am currently thinking about. There is no niche, no content strategy, no algorithm to please.

Just someone trying to think more clearly, out loud.

If you are reading this: hello. I hope something here is worth your time.