There is a familiar blogging pattern I see in myself and others.

Around the turn of the year, there is a “I’m back at it” blog post, perhaps a new format or medium, some annual reflections. Then a flurry of two to five posts over a few weeks.  Then silence.  Then after a few months an “I’m back at it” blog post.  Then silence again until the end of the year. Rinse, cycle, repeat.

A question in all of this is understanding why I write and what I write about. I go back and forth on whether I write narrative from a personal perspective, or limit it to professional research-driven dissertations.

This blog is intended to be more for the former, as a sketch board to get thoughts out. My desire is to be free enough to get these to half hour streams of consciousness, but I end up thinking and re-thinking to burn an hour or two.

Platforms such as Medium, LinkedIn, and my eventual company website are for the profession, which is leadership in my domain of measuring innovation outcomes. But these can take months to form and new content keeps getting added so I never end up shipping.

So here I am at the Sydney airport waiting for my flight, committing to get the writing flowing again, working towards radical transparency, and to keep me out of my head. Half hour up, time to ship.