Blogging and Internet Reputation

Lately I’ve been doing some searching for consulting gigs / full-time jobs / funding for my startup ideas, and I’ve started realizing that I haven’t really put much information out there and interacted with other tech communities as much as I probably should have.  I know there are privacy arguments to be made, but those can mostly be addressed by either posting technical details in a fashion that don’t give away any confidential information or trade secrets.  What has mostly stopped me was my tendency to want to over-think and perfect things before publishing anything.

Let me be clear to anyone looking to contribute their thoughts and expertise to the Internet community.  I have come to realize that most people generally don’t care about minor grammatical mistakes if the information has value to them.  This means that it is more important to get relevant information out there into the public, and not worry so much about how it’s formatted or whether the writing voice is eloquent.  I have heard from a least a couple of creative writing types that writing styles emerge with practice.  If you’re truly worried about looking foolish with your words, practice for a little while on a private blog, where nobody can see it.  I would really encourage people to start sharing of their expertise and experience though.

Given this, I will be aiming to not filter my thoughts and inclinations to share nearly so much as I have in the past.  I the past I would think of an idea and store it away on some todo-list for later processing.  You can tell by looking at my blogs’ history how often I’ve actually gotten back to those ideas though.

So, what I would ask is that you have patience with me while I find my “blogger’s voice.”  I hope you’ll interact and find the information I share valuable in some fashion to your lives.