{"id":9,"date":"2016-09-05T23:51:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T23:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/overachiever.blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:10:30","slug":"an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/overachiever.blog\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scott Hanselman (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\">blog<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shanselman\">twitter<\/a>) is right, it\u2019s time to stop \u2018pouring\u2019 our ideas into closed systems (i.e., social media) that usurp ownership of our thoughts and sap our ability to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/YourWordsAreWasted.aspx\">share things of value with one-another<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In short: I\u2019ve been thinking about this for a while, and it\u2019s time I got back to regular blogging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A big part of what\u2019s kept me away from blogging for so long though, is that I tend to be a bit too verbose \u2013 which means that blogging can too easily become a tedious affair where I spend too much time word-smithing my way through long, overly thought-out, posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That, and <strong>no one these days seems to have much patience for more than a bit of content at a time anyhow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, I\u2019m trying something new: regular, concise, blog-posts \u2013 to the tune of roughly 3 to 9 sentences per post. 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