http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2006/11/why-blog/ Because my LiveJournal is too silly Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:28:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2006/11/why-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-2984 Dan P Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:38:43 +0000 http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2006/11/why-blog/#comment-2984 Blogging is great for someone like me who's left academia and yet is still trying to do a bit of mathematics on the side in my spare time. Learning any subject on your own is hard and sometimes it's tricky to stay motivated. Forcing yourself to structure your thoughts in a form that someone else can read (even if nobody else is actually reading it) really helps a lot. And knowing that you'll have a nice finished document at the end is quite motivating. It also helps as a sanity check - if you make a glaringly wrong statement, someone is likely to correct you quickly. I've also found my old posts to be useful notes for myself! Blogging is great for someone like me who’s left academia and yet is still trying to do a bit of mathematics on the side in my spare time. Learning any subject on your own is hard and sometimes it’s tricky to stay motivated. Forcing yourself to structure your thoughts in a form that someone else can read (even if nobody else is actually reading it) really helps a lot. And knowing that you’ll have a nice finished document at the end is quite motivating. It also helps as a sanity check – if you make a glaringly wrong statement, someone is likely to correct you quickly. I’ve also found my old posts to be useful notes for myself!

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