2026-Oct-22: What's the point of self expression?

On the occasion of starting this Blog, with absolutely no time or ambition to do the advertising on social media so that anyone might actually find this stuff, the obvious question arises:

What is the point?

Why am I wasting my time doing such a thing?

Similar to the first blog entry (2026-Oct-21: AI Software: Everyone gets their own toothbrush!), I guess I just have a particularly solipsistic bent!

I have always been very internally motivated – extremely self-directed – even back when I was a kid who just wanted to stay home and play with my Legos (which is now mirrored so clearly by my daughter).

And I have random thoughts.

And now I have a place to write down those thoughts.

But why don’t I just keep a private journal of all this garbage?

Well, I do. But these random thoughts benefit from the notion that someone else might read them! Even if that is not the case! I write very different kinds of things to myself, only for myself.

Am I satisfied with this justification?

Yeah, because it is so easy to do this, and, yes, somehow still satisfying, to get these thoughts down.

And who knows, it is on the internet, and there are search engines, so maybe, somehow, someday, someone might actually read this stuff!?