I’ve tried to start a blog many times.
Few attempts have ever made it into the wild.
I’m always too precious with it. I fret over the lack of polish. I despair at the lack of attention I know it will receive. I panic at the thought of it receiving any attention at all. I never really know how to begin.
Merlin Mann says that he does this thing with the first page of any new notebook he gets. He writes in big block letters: “The first page is profound.”
I’m trying that here. We’ll see how it goes.