Writing About Anything
This blog lacks a niche. I do not have one restricted topic or type of subject to consider. I go from one idea to another as fast as my mind changes. This might put some people off. I’m just not interested in one particular thing as opposed to any other. I have never been a specialist. I like to read and find out about many various things. Maybe this limits my appeal. I don’t really know. There are a lot of blogs that are about one particular topic. I guess if you want to explore one topic more than anything else this might be good. If I only wanted to write about one kind of thing, like cars, maybe this would make for an interesting reading experience, for people who are only interested in cars.
In truth, I do not understand people who limit their experience to one particular field of knowledge. Yes, it takes time to learn about any subject. I spent four years learning about physics, and probably only scratched the surface of that subject. I don’t write a lot about physics. I lost interest in the subject when everything was all about finding one equation that describes everything. Perhaps it was my realization that there is no such equation. The three body problem in classical physics does not even have any deterministic solution. Chaos creeps into any system once complexity goes above a very low degree.
People like to specialize. There are many different levels of specialization. Medicine is a specialized field of knowledge. There are doctors who specialize in one particular disease. This is perhaps necessary. You wouldn’t want a person who hasn’t studied and practiced surgery to do your heart transplant. There are some things in life that require a high degree of skill.
Blogging does not require tons of skills. You need to know how to write. Most children learn this in school. You need to know something about the world and about how to find information. That’s what the Internet does best. Earlier this morning I was looking up analog computers and all kinds of different things about electronics. Still, there is more to knowledge than just the net. There are things any person knows that they’ve learned from life. You don’t really need a subject for a blog entry. All you need is something to say.
