To Blog or Not?

Writing is a good way to express your ideas and formalize what you are thinking. When you are sharing it with people, you open yourself up to scrutiny and pressure from the world, pushing you to think harder about the way you express ideas.

If you're uncomfortable with some stuff being shared and potentially being cancelled or used by an LLM or something, I think it's okay to shield. Shield things that are important to you and that you can't possibly have seen. Create everything else in public.

If it's not shared, what's the point of thought?

"Being cancelled" isn't a new phenomenon, it's just the activity of "cancelling" is seen as the ultimate expression of justice for all these keyboard SJWs.

I don't write for other people, I write so that I can look back in time and see how I used to think. I write mainly because my memory is fallible and changes how I remember things. 99% of the things I write are never published, and the 1% that is published goes on my personal site that's hidden from search engine crawlers.

The way I see it you will get cancelled no matter what you do. Some people do not like that other people have opinions that go against the marketing. So I say blog because it's better that spending all your life watching tiktok videos or influencer content. Be a producer instead of a consumer even if you are not getting a million hits. As for the AI scrapping the odds are low unless you are making tonnes of text that can shift the needle it won't matter. If your writing is unique it won't have a cross reference so it will be ignored as if you are speaking a dead language.

Why do you care if what you write is used to train an LLM. Re the second part, if you can't say what you want, you've already lost. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try writing diplomatically if you're aiming for a wider audience, but there's no harm in having opinions, even if some online type eventually finds something to feign outrage over. Just ignore them.

Do it if you want to, or don't. It doesn't matter.

I have a blog since almost 20 years now. Some people reach our about it sometimes. People really seem to care about some of the things I published.

But my life would be no different if I didn't have a blog. I feel no pressure to update my portfolio and make it a perfect pitch for my person. I have nothing to sell. I just share what I want to, on my own terms.

Blog if you want to, don't blog if you don't want to. It's as simple as that.

> People dig up things you said in the past and cancel you according to whatever is trending that day.

Don't say anything extreme and you'll be fine??