First of all it’s an experiment I’m just interested in.

Content to be expected

I don’t know.

Concluding from my capabilities, I should write mostly about computer science, C++, mathematics, physics, …
At least at those the background is or was quite professional. There are probably more, insanely randomly distributed, fields that I handle well. But – and that’s an objective – there will no attempt being made to reveal much personal about myself. The idea is, that the person writing doesn’t matter at all here. It should be just about the written output, the thinking alone.

Thinking is the key word. I guess over time I will drift along quite arbitrary topics I have not enough clue about. So regarding thinking, above all I’m wondering about:

• There is lots of silent thinking going on all the time. What difference could it make, trying to write down some of the seemingly important, bothering pieces, developing them further? In mathematics or programming there is always a point, where it’s getting too complex to be handled without pen and paper or a computer.
• At times, how far can you get with Immanuel Kant alone, i.e. using your own mind, sense, realistic attitude? Although I consider it essential trying hard to study existing work as much as you can first. There will be countless moments, where there just isn’t enough time, or admittedly one is too lazy or not able to read lots of stuff, looking up everything.
• Some principles to truth and thinking:
  • You should be able to notice when you don’t know, as often as possible (so important).
  • Exaggerating: what you don’t understand is wrong, or at least undecidable – no, but it is something where you have to say: I don’t know.
  • In that case, the challenge is to pose non-dumb questions, ideally interesting ones.

So this answers the ‘why writing’ at its very core.

Blogging publicly and not anonymously

Blogging is just the format, the medium. Very suiting, when writing a book is much too far-fetched, and you just need a clean sheet of paper for emitting drafts, experimenting. Perhaps drafts shouldn’t be public (probably a mess), but lets assume me trying hard not to be sketchy almost all the time. There should be an improvement as time and date move on (it’s a blog after all).

But why start out publicly? Are there really more pro’s than con’s? I’m not even sure yet.

Regarding anonymity, as this is not posted in the darker parts of the net, it is also always never going to be fully anonymously (even if tried). So there is this kind of mixture anyway. Otherwise, it would be possible to talk about illegal or extremely private stuff.

• First of all, because there will be no advertising, nobody is going to read or spot this anyway (irony).
• So essentially, it is not about being public, but more about the potential of being public. Just about the feeling, that you cannot be completely open, that you have to be socially compatible somehow. Perhaps, it’s a kind of middleground between secret/private work, that I still can do anytime when appropriate. And on the other hand, stuff that I would like to be more aggressively advertised, which I’m confident about and probably post elsewhere. In case of the latter, the content here at least shouldn’t hurt.
• Keeping it closed, would feel like lost opportunities. At least, there is the slightest chance of collaboration, of communication.

The biggest con, which unfortunately is highly probable, is, that after years, that blog will be a whole bunch of garbage. There is a vanishing chance of producing something genius or at least useful, during the process. But that’s also part of the experiment.

What about being easily identifiable?

• First of all, because there will be no advertising, nobody is going to read or spot this anyway (irony). Exceptions might be someone searching for my name on the net, or me being able to point somebody to a specific section by link, or just showing it to family and friends.
• Apart from this, a search engine favoring some specific post because of the content or whatever would be interesting to notice.
• Also, my intention is to be conformant to almost all the societies of the world. Leaning towards the freedom of speech, but respecting its varying extents. Legal frameworks as proposed and implemented by the likes of Wikipedia or WordPress are the guideline. Offending, hurting feelings are no-go’s and shall only happen by accident and unintendedly – I just need to know. Then slipping into the shoes of each other, perhaps in the worst case agreeing to disagree, then dealing with each other just on the intersections (that will definitely exist and be interesting to search for), is the way to go.